Description
Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) or borderline traits often present some of the most complex challenges for mental health practitioners. They exhibit a wide range of symptoms, difficult interpersonal relationships, provocative behavior during therapy, and coexisting psychiatric conditions. This broad spectrum makes BPD a key model for understanding self-destructive and self-defeating behaviors.
Psychotherapy With Borderline Patients: An Integrated Approach by David Allen addresses the need for a practical, problem-focused treatment manual. Drawing on biological, family systems, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral theories, the book offers an integrated framework for individual therapy with adults who have BPD or borderline traits.
This innovative and specific guide:
- Helps therapists teach patients strategies through role-playing to change dysfunctional family interaction patterns that reinforce harmful behaviors or chronic emotional symptoms
- Explains the oscillating patterns of hostile over- and underinvolvement between patients and their primary caregivers from childhood
- Clarifies dysfunctional communication patterns in families that contribute to misunderstandings
- Provides clear advice on managing provocative patient behavior, minimizing distorted patient descriptions of significant others, preventing medication misuse, and navigating insurance limitations due to managed care
Psychotherapy With Borderline Patients is a valuable resource for clinicians of all backgrounds who work with these patients, offering effective strategies regardless of theoretical orientation.
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