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Common Factors in Empirically Supported Treatments of Borderline Personality Disorder

Weinberg, Igor, Ronningstam, Elsa, Goldblatt, Mark J., Schechter, Mark, Maltsberger, John T.·2011·Current Psychiatry Reports
DOI 10.1007/s11920-010-0167-x
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In this article, we examine the manuals of empirically supported psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder (BPD) by comparing their common and specific treatment strategies. We compare these treatments using a previously constructed scale of treatment interventions. Individual psychotherapies for BPD have several common strategies: clear treatment framework, attention to affect, focus on treatment relationship, an active therapist, and exploratory and change-oriented interventions. Use of interpretations, supportive interventions, designating treatment targets, attention to patient functioning, multimodal treatment, and support for therapies varied across the psychotherapies. We discuss these findings in the context of clusters of BPD symptoms, reports regarding overlap in treatment interventions used by various psychotherapies, and the effectiveness of specific treatment strategies.

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  • Road Maps content and development were informed by common treatment factors identified from evidence-based therapies for BPD.

    “Termed Road Maps, the content and development were informed by common treatment factors identified from evidence-based therapies for BPD.”

    From Acceptability and feasibility of a short-term group therapy for people with borderline personality disorder symptoms (2024) · cites this paper as [6]

  • Common factors of effective BPD therapies include procedural factors (a clear therapeutic framework incorporating a theoretical formulation, peer consultation and defining the structure of therapy) and intervention-based factors (e.g. active therapist stance, encouragement of agency, exploratory and change-orientated interventions).

    “These include procedural factors (specifically, a clear therapeutic framework incorporating a theoretical formulation, peer consultation and defining the structure of therapy) and intervention-based factors (e.g. active therapist stance, encouragement of agency, exploratory and change-orientated interventions). 6”

    From Acceptability and feasibility of a short-term group therapy for people with borderline personality disorder symptoms (2024) · cites this paper as [6]

  • PD-specific treatment programs directly address and/or actively manage relational dynamics, and this appears to be one of the most important common features in effective PD treatment.

    “A distinguishing feature of PD-specific treatment programs is that they directly address and/or actively manage these relational dynamics. Indeed, this appears to be one of the most important common features in effective PD treatment (65).”

    From The diagnosis that should speak its name: why it is ethically right to diagnose and treat personality disorder during adolescence (2023) · cites this paper as [65]

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Authors
Weinberg, I., Ronningstam, E., Goldblatt, M. J., Schechter, M., & Maltsberger, J. T.
Affiliations
McLean Hospital (US)
Corresponding author
Weinberg, Igor
ORCID
Venue
Current Psychiatry Reports
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2010-11-06
Volume
13
Issue
1
Pages
60-68
ISSN
  • 1523-3812 (ISSN-L)
  • 1535-1645
DOI
10.1007/s11920-010-0167-x
OpenAlex
W2093574292
Cited by
109
References
48
Citations by year
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FWCI
0.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Current Psychiatry Reports (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
Keywords
borderline personality disorder, treatment manual, therapeutic relationship, emotion regulation, therapist role, multimodal therapy, support measures, treatment goals, symptom clusters, psychotherapy comparison
MeSH terms
Borderline Personality Disorder, Humans, Psychotherapy, Transference, Psychology, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Treatment Outcome

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