PSYC36H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Borderline Personality Disorder, Compassion Fatigue, Group Psychotherapy
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Dbt most studied for borderline personality disorder; involves skills training, individual therapy session. Must it >5 symptoms to considered bpd. Personality disorders are not episodic, but are longstanding way of how you think, feel, act. It is how you act most of the ime, but other diiculies such as depression, anxiety are states/episodic. Afects those they interact including therapist very stressful b/c high likelihood of suicides. Frequent self-harm behaviours concerned as a person and as a professional. Slide 4 very small things can afect their emoions; you need compassionate approach to understand them; they may experience more intense emoions than other people and cannot have capacity to develop ways to regulate their emoions. Drawn from cbt, acceptance, understand dbt as an expanded bt. Fits in 3rd wave treatment b/c rooted in bt. Telling them they need to change makes them feel very defensive or open. Based on her own personal experience + professional experience she herself was once bdp.
