Evidence-Based Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: Clinical and Ethical Considerations: WS502

The research on borderline personality disorder (BPD) is complex, confusing, and replete with contradictory findings from heterogeneous, convenient, small, and/or selected samples. This intermediate workshop focuses on current research findings on BPD, with particular focus on prevalence, phenomenology, comorbidity, course, and treatment outcomes. Relevant ethical issues and challenges are considered, and both seminal treatment studies and often neglected findings are highlighted. Evidence-based principles (EBP) are derived and emphasized throughout, with specific attention to differential diagnoses and treatment decision making. Vignettes and role plays are used to bring EBP to life.

Webinars are converted to video on-demand programs with closed captioning after the live air date.

• Articulate the most current research on identification, prevalence, comorbidity, course, and treatment of BPD to guide clinical decision-making processes and enhance research, administration, consultation, and policy work.
• Articulate and describe the specific components and evidence for the five main empirically supported treatment options for BPD.
• Identify and describe at least four clinical and ethical issues that arise in the diagnosis and treatment of BPD.

Kenneth N. Levy, PhD