Current Research and Treatments Consumer and Family Support Options – Friday, May 5, 2006

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: Current Research and Treatments
Consumer and Family Support Options

Friday, May 5, 2006
The Mary S. Harkness Auditorium, New Haven, CT


Sponsored by:

The National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder
in partnership with NARSAD,

In cooperation with:

Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital,
Yale University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
This conference is partially funded by NIMH grant R13MH068456-03

Conference Objectives:

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) presents patients, their families, clinicians, and researchers with multiple challenges. This conference will address the following objectives:

  • Educate about Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), including current diagnostic methods, recommended treatment practice, and current research such as course and comorbidity.
  • Describe common challenges experienced by the families of individuals with BPD, as well as an evidence-based program for helping families cope with these challenges (Family Connections).
  • Illustrate common challenges experienced by individuals with BPD through case presentation and first-person accounts, as well as options for individuals with BPD to develop peer support for these challenges.
  • Present, compare, and contrast leading evidence-based BPD treatments, including psychopharmacology, dialectical behavior therapy, transference-focused psychotherapy, and Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPSTM).

Course Description:

This one-day meeting will provide a forum for professionals, family members, and consumers to better understand this complex disorder from various perspectives.

This conference will provide information about the disorder and related topics:

  • overview
  • co-morbidity
  • consumer perspectives
  • family perspectives
  • family research
  • psychopharmacology
  • treatments

Conference Program

Moderator for the day: Seth R. Axelrod, PhD

Welcome

 Perry D. Hoffman, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
President, National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality DisorderSeth R. Axelrod, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine
IOP DBT/DBT-S Team Leader
Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital

Opening Remarks

Benjamin S. Bunney, MD
Charles B.G. Murphy Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry
Professor of Pharmacology
Yale University School of Medicine

BPD: A Brief Overview

Stanley G. Possick, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Education Coordinator, Long Term Psychotherapy Program
Yale University School of Medicine

Co-morbidity and Borderline Personality

Charles A. Sanislow, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine

Consumer Support and Perspectives

Consumer Panel
Kiera Van Gelder, MFA
President, Middle Path

Family Support and Perspectives

Family Panel
Perry D. Hoffman, PhD
 

Dixianne Penney, DrPH
Executive Vice-President
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder

Case Presentation

Lisa M. Maccarelli, PhD
Associate Research Scientist
Department of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine

Psychopharmacology of BPD

Thomas H. McGlashan, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine

Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS’)

Nancee S. Blum, LISW
Special Work Specialist and Clinical Faculty,
Department of Psychiatry, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine,
University of Iowa

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)

Pamela A. Foelsch, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

George H. Davis, PhD
Clinical Director
Center for Dialectical and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine

Schema-Focused Therapy

Samuel A. Ball, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Director of Training, NIDA Clinical Trials Network (New England Node)
Director of Residential Services, APT Foundation
Yale University School of Medicine
Veterans Administration Connecticut Healthcare

Treatment Panel: Question and Answer Time

Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Director of Training Program
Personality Disorders Institute
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)   George H. Davis, PhD  Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine
Clinical Director,
Center for Dialectical and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, LLC
Treatment Panel Discussion and Questions
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