Bringing borderline personality disorder into the fold of usual care - A/Prof Lois Choi Kain

The presentation provides an introduction to Good Psychiatric Management (GPM) as a treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD), as well as relevant background information about BPD and the various treatments that exist for it. The presentation begins with an overview of the epidemiology, symptomatology, etiology and course of BPD as well an explanation of the concept of personality and the different models that exist for understanding it. It then reviews the treatments that exist for BPD, the evidence for their effectiveness, and the features and limitations common to all of them.
Then, the presentation introduces the components, central theory, and
evidence base for GPM, and provides instruction in handling certain common challenges in GPM such as safety management and co-occurring disorders.
Dr Lois W. Choi-Kain is the Director of the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute (GPDI). The institute provides training and supervision for numerous proven treatments, including Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (DBTPTSD), Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), and General Psychiatric Management (GPM). She works nationally and internationally to expand teaching efforts on borderline personality disorder (BPD) and its evidence-based treatments and engages in research to study resources for training clinicians who need direction and patients who need access to informed care.
With her mentor, John Gunderson, Dr. Choi-Kain developed a training program for GPM and has been expanding its applications. Her aim as a researcher is to expand the scope and reach of effective interventions for BPD as a regular fixture of routine mental health care, to allow earlier intervention and facilitation of recovery before the burdens of illness too greatly diminish developmental opportunities critical to fostering healthy personality functioning.