Description
This workshop offers training in an empirically validated treatment approach to borderline personality disorder (BPD) known as Good or General Psychiatric Management (GPM) with a specific focus on complex cases involving co-occurring disorders. GPM is “good enough” for most clinicians and most patients, and provides mental health professionals guidelines they need to become skilled providers who can derive satisfaction from treating patients with BPD. This workshop will provide instruction in how to adapt GPM to meet the needs of patients with significant co-occurring disorders along with BPD. Depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, substance abuse disorder, eating disorders, other personality disorders, and many other disorders frequently co-occur with BPD and can significantly complicate treatment.Many providers believe that co-occurring disorders must be treated before BPD can be addressed, or that BPD must be addressed before meaningful change can occur in co-occurring disorders. This workshop will equip attendees to consider patients with complex cases as whole people and use GPM to most effectively help them. It will review the common co-occurring disorders, the way they interact with BPD, and strategies for combined treatment.
This event will cover:
- Identify strategies to combine treatment for BPD and its common co-occurring disorders such as alcohol use and other personality
- Manage the problem of recurrent suicidality and self-harm while limiting personal burdern and professional liability by adherin
- Identify when to prioritize BPD’s treatment and hwen to defer until a comorbid disorder is resolved
- Describe the management of conservative psychopharmacology when treating BPD
- Explain how to keep adolescent patients developmentally “on track.”
- Appreciate the importance of self care, self awareness, and reflection when engaging with people who have BPD
Trainers
- Lois W-Choi- Kain (Associate Proffessor) — Gunderson Personality Disorder Institue
- Sathya Rao (Associate Professor) — Spectrum
Eligibility criteria
Clinicians who work with patients with BPD and have received some prior training in GP
Categories:
Capability 4 - Understanding and responding to trauma,
Capability 5 - Understanding and responding to mental health crisis and suicide,
Capability 10 - Delivering compassionate care, support and treatment
Disciplines:
Allied Health,
Lived Experience Workforce,
Medical,
Nursing,
Other
Levels:
Introductory,
Intermediate,
Advanced
Lifespans:
Adolescent,
Youth,
Adult,
Older Persons
09:00 to 16:30 Add to calendar
Richmond
Cost: (payable by credit card/paypal only)
In-Person: $550
Online: $350
Eastern health employees are eligible for a 50% discount. AMHS employees are also eligible for a discount, please contact spectrumtraining@easternhealth.org.au for further information.
