Empirically Supported Treatment Interventions for Persons with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Comorbid Borderline Personality Disorder

<p>The overall stigma- and gender-related controversies that surround the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) present a unique ethical mandate to the practitioner. The relationship between trauma and the BPD diagnosis strengthens the need for carefully designed treatment interventions in order to secure the benefits of trauma-focused work, while minimizing the risk of undue regression. The complexity and risk of harm introduced by a diagnosis of comorbid BPD and PTSD urges the need for clarification of optimal treatment interventions to guide practitioners. Trauma-focused therapies, particularly EMDR, tend to be the treatment of choice for PTSD; however, comorbid borderline pathology has been identified in the literature as a predictor of poorer treatment outcomes for EMDR, thus lending support for the selection of an intervention tailored to the unique needs of borderline patients, such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). The thoughtful and strategic use of therapeutic integration emerges as an empirically supported technique in the treatment of severely comorbid patients.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Social Work

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Seliga, Megan

• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Social Work

Repository record dc:identifier

https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/1303

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ecommons.luc.edu:luc_diss-2302