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Borderline personality disorder in older adults : emphasis on care in institutional settings / Ana Hategan, James A. Bourgeois, Glen L. Xiong, editors ; contributors, Mariam Abdurrahman [and thirty-four others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Psychiatry- theory, applications, and treatments series.
- Psychiatry - Theory, Applications, and Treatments
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Borderline personality disorder--Treatment.
- Borderline personality disorder.
- Psychotherapy patients--Institutional care.
- Psychotherapy patients.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (180 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Publishers, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With the book Borderline Personality Disorder in Older Adults: Emphasis on Care in Institutional Settings, Drs. Hategan, Bourgeois, and Xiong address an often underappreciated clinical problem that is likely increasing with the aging of the population. Geriatric patients with borderline personality disorder, like their younger counterparts, experience social and relationship challenges, comorbid psychiatric illness (including but not limited to substance use disorders), comorbid systemic illness, and are high utilizers of medical and social services. With the aging of the population worldwide,
- Contents:
- BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN OLDER ADULTS: EMPHASIS ON CARE ININSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN OLDER ADULTS: EMPHASIS ON CARE ININSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; CONTRIBUTORS; SECTION I: FUNDAMENTALS OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN OLDER ADULTS; Chapter 1: OVERVIEW OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN OLDER PATIENTS: EVOLUTION AND COMPLEXITY; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS; HISTORY OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER:EVOLUTION OF A DIAGNOSIS
- CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OLDER PATIENTSWITH BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDERAGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES IN MANIFESTATIONOF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; RISK FOR DISRUPTIVE LIFE EVENTS IN OLDER PATIENTSWITH BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; KEY POINTS: OVERVIEW OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDERIN OLDER PATIENTS: EVOLUTION AND COMPLEXITY; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: PERSONALITY AND AGING; INTRODUCTION; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE LIFE CYCLE; PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND AGING; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER AND AGING; KEY POINTS: PERSONALITY AND AGING; REFERENCES
- Chapter 3: ETIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER INOLDER ADULTSINTRODUCTION; ETIOLOGY OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN OLDER ADULTS; KEY POINTS: ETIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN OLDER ADULTS; REFERENCES; SECTION II: ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION; Chapter 4: CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRIC RATING SCALES; BARRIERS TO DIAGNOSIS; KEY POINTS: CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; REFERENCES
- Chapter 5: COMORBIDITIES IN BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: ROLE OF CONSULTATION AND COLLABORATIONINTRODUCTION; PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITIES; SYSTEMIC MEDICAL COMORBIDITIES; NEUROCOGNITIVE COMORBIDITIES AND OTHERCONSIDERATIONS IN OLDER ADULTS; ROLE OF PSYCHIATRIC CONSULTATIONAND COLLABORATION; KEY POINTS: COMORBIDITIES IN BORDERLINE PERSONALITYDISORDER: ROLE OF CONSULTATION AND COLLABORATION; Chapter 6: PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN GERIATRIC PATIENTS; INTRODUCTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT APPROACH
- KEY POINTS: PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN GERIATRIC PATIENTSREFERENCES; SECTION III: MANAGEMENT; Chapter 7: THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE AND BOUNDARY ISSUES; INTRODUCTION; THERAPEUTIC CONTRACTING IN MANAGEMENT OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN OLDER ADULTS; FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE; BOUNDARIES AND MEDICO-LEGAL ISSUES; KEY POINTS: THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE AND BOUNDARY ISSUES; REFERENCES; Chapter 8: SUICIDALITY IN GERIATRIC BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: CLINICAL APPROACHES AND MANAGEMENT; INTRODUCTION; DEFINITION OF TERMS
- UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES OF SUICIDE IN BORDERLINEPERSONALITY DISORDER
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-63482-230-7
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