Working with people with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder

Most mental health practitioners are familiar with the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) – but if you’re not trained in specialist treatments for BPD, can you still be helpful to this group of people? In this episode, Peregrine Research Associate Dr Caitlin Miller interviews Psychologist and Research Fellow at Project Air Strategy for Personality Disorders, Dr Nick Day, and Staff Specialist Psychiatrist at the Centre for Psychotherapy, Dr Nick Bendit. Nick Day and Nick Bendit speak about what drives emotional storms and crises for people with a diagnosis of BPD, how our typical approaches as mental health practitioners can actually be unhelpful for people with BPD – and what to do instead. They discuss the common elements of treatment approaches, how to manage risk concerns and what they mean when they tell practitioners to “follow the love”.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.