Borderline Personality Disorder: Origins, Treatments, Recovery
October 2, 2004
St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Sponsored by: |
The National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder in partnership with NARSAD St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton WiseMind (funded in part by the Ontario Trillium Foundation) |
Endorsed by: |
Arthur Sommer Rosenberg Chair in Suicides Unit, Mental Health Services, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario |
Conference Program
Welcome |
Perry D. Hoffman, PhD President NEABPD |
What is it? Overview of Borderline Personality Disorder |
Joel Paris, MD McGill University |
Risk of suicidal behaviour |
Paul S. Links, MD St. Michael’s Hospital |
What are we doing to treat it? Treatment: Therapy / Dialectical Behavior |
Shelley McMain, PhD The Center for Addiction and Mental Health |
What are we doing to treat it? Medication |
Kenneth R. Silk, MD University of Michigan |
How do we live with it? Family and Consumer Perspectives Panel |
Perry D. Hoffman, PhD; Rita Mohan, PHN, MA; Nicola Whipp, BA; Susan Roach, MSW; Patricia Woodward, MATÂ |
What is new in research? |
Kenneth Levy, PhD City University of New York |
Hope: The community perspective |
Stephen Webb, MD St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton Debra E. Coates Executive Director, WiseMind |