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BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER:

Current Research and Treatments Consumer and Family Support Options

Friday, May 5, 2006                       The Mary S. Harkness Auditorium, New Haven, CT

Sponsored by:

The National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder

in partnership with NARSAD,

In cooperation with: 

Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital,

Yale University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry  

 

This conference is partially funded by NIMH grant R13MH068456-03

Conference Objectives:

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) presents patients, their families, clinicians, and researchers with multiple challenges. This conference will address the following objectives:
  • Educate about Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), including current diagnostic methods, recommended treatment practice, and current research such as course and comorbidity.
  • Describe common challenges experienced by the families of individuals with BPD, as well as an evidence-based program for helping families cope with these challenges (©Family Connections).
  • Illustrate common challenges experienced by individuals with BPD through case presentation and first-person accounts, as well as options for individuals with BPD to develop peer support for these challenges.
  • Present, compare, and contrast leading evidence-based BPD treatments, including psychopharmacology, dialectical behavior therapy, transference-focused psychotherapy, and Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPSTM).

Course Description:

This one-day meeting will provide a forum for professionals, family members, and consumers to better understand this complex disorder from various perspectives.

 

This conference will provide information about the disorder and related topics:

  • overview

  • co-morbidity

  • consumer perspectives

  • family perspectives

  • family research

  • psychopharmacology

  • treatments

Conference Program

Welcome  

Perry D. Hoffman, PhD

Assistant Clinical Professor

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine

President

National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder

 

Seth R. Axelrod, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Yale University School of Medicine

IOP DBT/DBT-S Team Leader

Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital

Opening Remarks  

Benjamin S. Bunney, MD

Charles B.G. Murphy Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry

Professor of Pharmacology

Yale University School of Medicine

BPD: A Brief Overview 

Stanley G. Possick, MD

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry

Education Coordinator, Long Term Psychotherapy Program

Yale University School of Medicine

Co-morbidity and Borderline Personality

Charles A. Sanislow, PhD  

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Yale University School of Medicine

Consumer Support and  Perspectives

 

Consumer Panel 

Kiera Van Gelder, MFA

President, Middle Path

Family Support and Perspectives

 

Family Panel

Perry D. Hoffman, PhD

Dixianne Penney, DrPH

Executive Vice-President

National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder

Case Presentation

Lisa M. Maccarelli, PhD

Associate Research Scientist

Department of Psychiatry

Yale University School of Medicine

Psychopharmacology of BPD Thomas H. McGlashan, MD   

Professor of Psychiatry

Yale University School of Medicine

Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS™)   Nancee S. Blum, LISW

Special Work Specialist and Clinical Faculty,

Department of Psychiatry, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine,

University of Iowa

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)  Pamela A. Foelsch, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Director of Training Program

Personality Disorders Institute

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)   George H. Davis, PhD  

Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry

Yale University School of Medicine

Clinical Director,

Center for Dialectical and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, LLC

Treatment Panel Discussion and Questions  
 


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