'Recovery as a Destination and an Intervention for
Personality Disorders'
 

Treatments for borderline personality disorder (BPD) often focus on building mental capacities for self-understanding, self-regulation, and stable attachment to others, to reduce symptoms and bring about remission. Increasingly, we are understanding that reduction of BPD symptoms is not enough to secure functional gains.

Research demonstrates that remission is vastly common in the naturalistic course of the disorder, but recovery can be more difficult to both achieve and maintain. However, recovery is possible and begins a cycle of change which enables people to be an active member of the community, occupy a visible and positive role, contribute in a way that promotes self-esteem, find purpose, and connect to others in a more stable, sustainable way.

This webinar will address the existing science on recovery in BPD and current directions in treatment development that prioritises recovery as the aim of treatment. and self-validation. 

This event is being held as part of the activities for BPD Awareness Week in Australia.  BPD Awareness Week 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

This webinar is for clinicians from a range of mental health and allied health sectors, as well as people living with BPD and their support community (friends, family, carers) who want to broaden their understanding of how to support a person living with BPD.

PRESENTER: 

Dr. Lois W. Choi-Kain is the Director of the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute (GPDI). The institute provides training and supervision for numerous proven treatments, including mentalization-based treatment (MBT), dialectical behavioral therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (DBT-PTSD), transference focused psychotherapy (TFP), and general psychiatric management (GPM). She works nationally and internationally to expand teaching efforts on borderline personality disorder and its evidence-based treatments and engages in research to study resources for training clinicians who need direction and patients who need access to informed care. With her mentor, John Gunderson, Dr. Choi-Kain developed a training program for GPM and has been expanding its applications.

Her aim as a researcher is to expand the scope and reach of effective interventions for BPD as a regular fixture of routine mental health care, to allow earlier intervention and facilitation of recovery before the burdens of illness too greatly diminish developmental opportunities critical to fostering healthy personality functioning.. 

TIME:

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