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Title Borderline personality disorder : meeting the challenges to successful treatment / Perry D. Hoffman, Penny Steiner-Grossman, guest editors
Published Binghamton, NY : Haworth Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (299 pages)
Series Social work in mental health ; v. 6, no. 1/2
Social work in mental health ; v. 6, no. 1/2.
Contents Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment -- AS PART OF OUR CONTINUING COMMITMENT TO BETTER SERVE OUR LIBRARY PATRONS, WE ARE PROUD TO BE WORKING WITH THE FOLLOWING ELECTRONIC SERVICES -- ABOUT THE EDITORS -- About the Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Borderline Personality Disorder: An Overview -- Confronting Myths and Stereotypes About Borderline Personality Disorder -- Biological Underpinnings of Borderline Personality Disorder -- The Case of Joan -- BPD and the Need for Community: A Social Worker's Perspective
Borderline Personality Disorder and HospitalizationBorderline Personality Disorder and Adolescence -- An Evidence-Based Approach to Managing Suicidal Behavior in Patients with BPD -- Dialectical Behavior Therapy -- Combined Medication and Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder -- Supportive Psychotherapy for Borderline Patients -- Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for BPD -- Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) for the Treatment of BPD -- Mentalization-Based Treatment for BPD
In Their Own Words: Improving Services and Hopefulness for Families Dealing with BPDFostering Validating Responses in Families -- Family Connections: An Education and Skills Training Program for Family Member Well Being: A Leader's Perspective -- Inhabited by a Cry: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder
Summary Explore and understand new approaches in Borderline therapy Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) lags far behind other disorders such as schizophrenia in terms of research and treatment interventions. Debates about diagnosis, etiology, neurobiology, genetics, medication, and treatment still persist. Borderline Personality Disorder brings together over two dozen of the field's leading experts in one enlightening text. The book also offers mental health providers a view of BPD from the perspectives of sufferers as well as family members to foster an understanding of the experie
Notes "Co-published simultaneously as Social work in mental health, volume 6, numbers 1/2."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Borderline personality disorder -- Treatment
Borderline Personality Disorder -- therapy
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
Borderline personality disorder -- Treatment
Form Electronic book
Author Hoffman, Perry D., 1944-
Steiner-Grossman, Penny.
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