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