What Do Individuals With Borderline Personality Disorder Want From Treatment? A Study of Self-generated Treatment and Recovery Goals.

Outcome measurement has progressed in the field of personality disorders. While the majority of trials have evaluated outcomes on the basis of symptom and diagnostic indices, what is considered a meaningful and valued outcome to individuals has seldom been investigated. Self-generated treatment goals were collected from 102 individuals seeking treatment for borderline personality disorder and independently coded by 2 raters.

Challenges to getting evidence into practice: expert clinician perspectives on psychotherapy for personality disorders.

Background: No known recent studies have investigated service provision for personality disorder in Australia, despite international studies suggesting provision of such services is sub-optimal.

Aims: This study aimed to gain insight into psychotherapy provided for personality disorders, treatments considered optimal by clinicians and opinions of clinicians on the current levels of care.

Methods: The views of 60 experienced clinicians working with personality disorders were sampled.

Expressive language disturbance in borderline personality disorder in response to emotional autobiographical stimuli.

Clinicians recognize expressive language disturbances in borderline personality disorder (BPD) as a feature attenuating psychiatric history-taking. Neuroimaging studies demonstrate activation of key differentiating neural networks characterizing a traumatic memory system in BPD patients. Yet there are few BPD studies evaluating expressive language disturbances in response to emotionally salient, clinically relevant stimuli and no controlled studies.

Enhancing memory in late-life depression: the effects of a combined psychoeducation and cognitive training program.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of a multifactorial cognitive training (CT) program for older people with a lifetime history of depressive disorder.

Methods: This was a single-blinded waitlist control design. The study was conducted in the Healthy Brain Ageing Clinic, a specialist outpatient clinic at the Brain & Mind Research Institute, Sydney, Australia.

Early intervention for cognitive decline: is there a role for multiple medical or behavioural interventions?

Aim: Early medical or behavioural intervention to slow cognitive decline might be a viable strategy for reducing disability and rates of institutional care in older persons. This paper details the published work supporting cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between vascular risk factors, depressive symptoms and progressive cognitive decline. Evidence for the beneficial effects of providing relevant interventions is assessed.