title: Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Progress and Remaining Challenges.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The main purpose of this review was to critically evaluate the literature on psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder (BPD) published over the past 5 years to identify the progress with remaining challenges and to determine priority areas for future research.
  
  
  METHODS
  A systematic review of the literature over the last 5 years was undertaken.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The review yielded 184 relevant abstracts, and after applying inclusion criteria, 16 articles were fully reviewed based on the articles' implications for future research and/or clinical practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our review indicated that patients with various severities benefited from psychotherapy; more intensive therapies were not significantly superior to less intensive therapies; enhancing emotion regulation processes and fostering more coherent self-identity were important mechanisms of change; therapies had been extended to patients with BPD and posttraumatic stress disorder; and more research was needed to be directed at functional outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Lawson Health Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, London, Canada. paul.links@lhsc.on.ca.|The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. paul.links@lhsc.on.ca.|London Health Sciences Centre, Department of Psychiatry, Victoria Hospital-North Tower, Rm B8-132, 800 Commissioners Road East, London, N6A 5W9, ON, Canada. paul.links@lhsc.on.ca.|St. Joseph's Health Care London, London, Canada. paul.links@lhsc.on.ca.
authors.forename: Paul S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Links
authors.affiliation: Lawson Health Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, London, Canada.|The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.|London Health Sciences Centre, Department of Psychiatry, Victoria Hospital-North Tower, Rm B8-132, 800 Commissioners Road East, London, N6A 5W9, ON, Canada.|St. Joseph's Health Care London, London, Canada.
authors.forename: Ravi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.affiliation: Lawson Health Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, London, Canada.|The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.|London Health Sciences Centre, Department of Psychiatry, Victoria Hospital-North Tower, Rm B8-132, 800 Commissioners Road East, London, N6A 5W9, ON, Canada.|St. Joseph's Health Care London, London, Canada.
authors.forename: Rahel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Eynan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D015897:Comorbidity; D065786:Delay Discounting; D000066498:Emotional Adjustment; D006801:Humans; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012649:Self Concept; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Borderline personality disorder; Comorbidity; Mechanism of action; Psychotherapy; Trials