Objectives
- Identify the eight components for effective psychiatric management of borderline personality disorder
- Identify client characteristics which would necessitate partial hospitalization or brief or extended inpatient hospitalization
- List the five components which should be included when establishing a clear treatment framework
- List the four steps in responding to crises
- List five techniques for establishing and maintaining a therapeutic framework and alliance
- List the characteristics of effective treatment plans for patients with borderline personality disorder
- Compare and contrast psychodynamic therapy and dialectical behavior therapy
- Identify 10 features/goals for individual psychotherapeutic approaches
- Discuss the utilization of group, couples, and or family therapy with persons with borderline personality disorder
- Summarize pharmacological treatments for persons with borderline personality disorder
- Identify the symptoms that can be targeted with pharmacotherapy
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes