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The Application of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder on Inpatient Units
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Inpatient treatment of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) is typically fraught with difficulty and failure. Patients and staff often become entangled in intense negative therapeutic spirals that obliterate the potential for focused, realistic, and effective treatment interventions. We describe an inpatient treatment approach to BPD patients which is an application of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a cognitive-behavioral therapy for patients with BPD which has been shown to be effective in reducing suicidal behavior, hospitalization, and treatment dropout and improving interpersonal functioning and anger management. The inpatient DBT staff creates a validating treatment milieu and focuses on orienting and educating new patients and identifying and prioritizing their treatment targets. Inpatient DBT treatment techniques include contingency management procedures, skills training and coaching, behavioral analysis, structured response protocols to suicidal and egregious behaviors on the unit, and consultation team meetings for DBT staff.
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Chapter 5. Manifestations, Assessment, Diagnosis, and Differential Diagnosis
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Chapter 4. The Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders
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Chapter 20. Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk
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Chapter 14. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
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Chapter 2. Theories of Personality and Personality Disorders
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Chapter 11. Therapeutic Alliance
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Chapter 8. Genetics and Neurobiology
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Chapter 17. Pharmacological Management
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Chapter 1. Personality Disorders: Recent History and New Directions
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- Authors
- Swenson, C. R., Sanderson, C., Dulit, R. A., & Linehan, M. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Swenson, Charles R.
- ORCID
- Linehan, Marsha M.
- Venue
- Psychiatric Quarterly
- Published
- 2001-12
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 307-324
- ISSN
- 0033-2720 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-6709
- OpenAlex
- W1524433949
- Cited by
- 137
- References
- 32
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- FWCI
- 3.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Psychiatric Quarterly (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 › Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Keywords
- dialectical behavior therapy, borderline personality disorder, inpatient care, hospitalization, suicide prevention, treatment discontinuation, therapeutic relationship, validation, contingency management, skills training, behavior analysis, response protocols, employee training
- MeSH terms
- Borderline Personality Disorder, Hospitalization, Humans, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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