Stepped Care for Borderline Personality Disorder

Stepped Care for Borderline Personality Disorder: Making Treatment Brief, Effective, and Accessible synthesizes the latest research and treatment developments with an aim to make treatment for BPD more accessible to a wider range of patients. The book provides clinicians with innovative, brief and targeted intervention methods for the disorder, offering clinicians a vital guide to the management of patients who are difficult to treat. Acknowledging the early developmental roots of BPD, the book includes sections on BPD in adolescence, childhood precursors of the disorder, and other etiological considerations, also including a roadmap of potential pitfalls.

• Features brief and targeted methods of integrative treatment for BPD patients
• Makes treatment more accessible to a wider range of patients
• Provides clinicians and researchers with a review of the current BPD literature
• Acknowledges problems with, and provides solutions for, treatment access for BPD patients
• Addresses questions regarding the complex developmental trajectories of BPD
• Looks at diagnosis, etiology and stepped-care treatment of BPD

Mental health clinicians; academics in psychology, social work, and psychiatry

Part I: Research on BPD
1. Diagnosis
2. Etiology
3. Outcome
4. Evidence-Based Treatment

Part II: Applying a Stepped Care Model
5. An Integrative Model
6. Making Therapy Accessible: When Less Is More
7. Stepped Care
8. Adjusting the Plan to the Patient
9. Clinical Problems
10. Unsolved Problems