Borderline personality disorder : a practical guide to treatment /

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Author / Creator:Krawitz, Roy.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Description:xvi, 201 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5019067
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Other authors / contributors:Watson, Christine, 1950-
ISBN:0198520670
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-196 and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Terminology
  • Abbreviations
  • Molly
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Background to treatment
  • Origins of the label "borderline personality disorder"
  • History of treatment
  • Epidemiology
  • Diagnosis
  • Comorbidity
  • Clinical boundaries
  • Aetiology
  • Prognosis
  • Morbidity and mortality
  • Morbidity
  • Mortality
  • Health resource usage
  • Health resource use after effective treatment
  • Different treatment models
  • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy
  • Self psychology
  • Relationship management
  • Cognitive analytical therapy (CAT)
  • Cognitive-behavioural therapies
  • Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
  • Commonalities between different models
  • Multimodel approach
  • An organizing clinical framework for mental health clinicians
  • Outcome studies
  • Psychosocial treatments
  • Pharmacological treatments
  • Serotonergic agents
  • Neuroleptic agents
  • Anticonvulsants
  • Older agents (tricyclic antidepressants, older MAOIs)
  • Other agents
  • Prescribing in the acute situation
  • In summary
  • Part 2. Treatment issues and clinical pathways
  • Introduction
  • Assessment
  • Risk assessment
  • Differentiating acute and chronic suicidal and self-harm patterns
  • Crisis assessment
  • Interventions
  • Client-clinician relationship
  • Team/system culture
  • Clinical plan
  • Duration of treatment
  • Prioritizing interventions
  • Empathy and validation
  • Containment/holding
  • Transitional people and items
  • Self-harm
  • Contracts
  • Crisis work
  • Regression at times of crisis
  • Some anti-suicide interventions
  • Acute inpatient services
  • Client-controlled brief acute admissions
  • Pragmatic conceptual frameworks guiding treatment
  • Cognitive behavioural strategies
  • Behaviour chain and solution analysis
  • Teams
  • Team structure
  • Investing value and status in the key clinician role
  • Specialist teams
  • Systems
  • Responsiveness of the organization to clinician needs
  • Staff differences
  • Residential treatment
  • Relatives and friends
  • Principles of effective treatment
  • In summary
  • Part 3. Stigma, language, clinician feelings, and resourcing
  • Stigma and discrimination
  • Language--negative terminology
  • Clinician values and feelings
  • Resourcing
  • In summary
  • Part 4. The legal environment
  • Medicolegal framework
  • Duty of care and institutional responsibilities
  • Professionally indicated risk-taking
  • Clinical appropriateness of the use of mental health legislation
  • In summary
  • Part 5. Maintaining enthusiasm
  • Limit-setting
  • Preventing clinician burn-out
  • Supervision
  • Words of hope from clients
  • In summary
  • References
  • Guided reading
  • References
  • Index