Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder, 1e

Choi-Kain
APA
pages
ISBN: 9781615375530
October 2024

Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder provides education and a general approach to clinical management. Good psychiatric management's (GPM's) multimodal approach naturally incorporates medication, individual therapies, clinical case management, family work, and mutual help groups. BPD and AUD share core features of diminished neurocognitive and emotional processing capacity and insufficient agency, self-esteem, and coherent sense of self, and they are both associated with diminished social networks. Multimodal treatment broadens social networks (multiple clinical professionals providing care alongside loved ones) to reduce risk factors for relapse, increase support, and enhance recovery from both disorders. Treatment emphasizes the development of different coping responses and more effective prosocial behaviors that are more likely to generate the interpersonal responses needed to build health in sense of self and relationships.