title: Promoting Good Psychiatric Management for Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder.
abstract: General psychiatric management for patients with borderline personality disorder was devised to be an outpatient intervention that could be readily learned and easily delivered by independent community mental health professionals. To disseminate the approach, Drs. Gunderson and Links developed the Handbook of Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder (Gunderson & Links, ) that presented the basics of the approach, videos to illustrate the appropriate clinical skills, and case examples to practice adherence to the approach. Unfortunately, the inclusion of "psychiatric" in the treatment's name may discourage psychologists and other mental health professionals from using this therapy. In this article, we review the basic principles and approaches related to general psychiatric management. With a case example, we illustrate how psychologists can use all the general psychiatric management principles for their patients with BPD, except medications and, as a result, provide and deliver this approach effectively.
authors.affiliation: University of Western Ontario.
authors.forename: Paul S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Links
authors.affiliation: University of Western Ontario.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School.
authors.forename: John G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Gunderson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001877:Books; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D019090:Case Management; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: borderline personality disorder; case management; dynamic psychotherapy; suicide risk; transference