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The attitudes of psychiatric hospital staff toward hospitalization and treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder
Nurses and psychiatrists reported encountering a higher number of patients with BPD during the last month, and exhibited more negative attitudes and less empathy toward these patients than the other professions. The attitudes of psychiatric hospital staff toward hospitalization and treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder Ehud Bodner, Sara Cohen-Fridel, Mordechai Mashiah, Michael Segal, Alexander Grinshpoon, Tzvi Fischel and Iulian Iancu Background Negative attitudes towards patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) may affect their treatment. We aimed to identify attitudes toward patients with BPD. Methods Clinicians in four psychiatric hospitals in Israel (n=710; psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and nurses) were approached and completed questionnaires on attitudes toward these patients.…
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Psychiatrists’ Fear of Death Linked to Negative Feelings Towards Certain Patients
While clinicians perceive mood disorders as curable and sympathy-evoking illnesses, BPD patients are considered more problematic, and are held accountable for their suicidal behaviors. Psychiatrists’ Fear of Death Linked to Negative Feelings Towards Certain Patients Around The Web July 11, 2015 A survey of 120 psychiatrists published in Psychiatry Research found that the more psychiatrists fear death, the more negative emotions they have towards people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. A team of Israeli researchers conducted statistical analyses on answers from psychiatrists to survey questions about their attitudes towards death generally and to suicide, and about their attitudes towards patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. “In line with the hypothesis…
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Personality disorders: a new statement of quality in treatment
Borderline personality disorder is characterized by significant instability of interpersonal relationships, self‑image and mood, and impulsive behavior. There is sometimes a pattern of rapid fluctuation from periods of confidence to despair, with fear of abandonment, rejection, and a strong tendency towards suicidal thinking and self‑harm. Personality disorders: a new statement of quality in treatment NICE was asked by NHS England to develop a quality standard on 2 specific personality disorders, that is, borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. Borderline and antisocial personality disorders are 2 distinctive conditions that affect people differently and have different care pathways. The diagnosis affects how the condition is managed and the interventions and services that are appropriate. The 2…
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Video: Anthony Bateman – Where does attachment fit into BPD?
Is Borderline Personality Disorder involve attachment? The Mentalization people (like Dr. Bateman) would say “Yes”. Those that do DBT wouldn’t agree. “This is not blame the mother… There are many things that affect the attachment system, not just the mother.” If you agree that attachment plays a role in BPD, you’ll more fully understand why boundaries and “detaching with love” can be harmful or triggering. No related posts.
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Too many deaths in custody are preventable but staff lack mental health expertise, says human rights body
Hundreds of deaths were avoidable and were caused by repeated “basic errors” by staff ignorant of mental-health risks Too many deaths in custody are preventable but staff lack mental health expertise, says human rights body CHARLIE COOPER Monday 23 February 2015 Hundreds of deaths in psychiatric units, prisons and police cells between 2010 and 2013 were avoidable and were caused by repeated “basic errors” by staff ignorant of mental-health risks, human rights advocates have said. Numerous suicides in detention came after failures to monitor patients or to remove hanging risks, according to a report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Its seven-month inquiry into deaths in UK hospital and…
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Borderline Personality Disorder: Open Letter to Emergency Department and Hospital Based Staff
Invalidating our feelings is like throwing petrol onto an already fierce raging fire. Bon: I think the same could be said of emotionally dysregulated moments with loved ones… Borderline Personality Disorder: Open Letter to Emergency Department and Hospital Based Staff By SONIA NEALE ~ 4 min read People with a diagnosis of BPD are often accused of manipulation and splitting in psychiatric settings. A quick Google search reveals that manipulation is the action of manipulating someone in a clever or unscrupulous way, the skilful handling, controlling or using of something or someone, to manage or influence skilfully, especially in an unfair manner, to manipulate people’s feelings. I have never felt…