Designing a study to evaluate a clinical training program : training clinicians to assess ongoing risk in people with borderline personality disorder /
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a diagnostic term used to describe a chronic pattern of maladaptive behaviors that may include emotional lability, impulsivity, and interpersonal difficulties. People experiencing BPD may impulsively engage in serious and potentially lethal self-harming behav...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | SAGE Research Methods Cases : Medicine and Health.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a diagnostic term used to describe a chronic pattern of maladaptive behaviors that may include emotional lability, impulsivity, and interpersonal difficulties. People experiencing BPD may impulsively engage in serious and potentially lethal self-harming behaviors as a means of coping with their distress. Accurately assessing risk is critical for choosing the best management and treatment strategies. We conducted a study to test whether training clinicians in the use of a tool for evaluating risk in BPD would translate into more accurate risk assessment in this patient group. We ran a training program for clinical staff employed in public mental health and evaluated whether it changed the way in which clinicians judged suicide and self-harm risk in patients diagnosed with BPD. This case discusses how we designed this study and what we learned along the way. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529740882 1529740886 |