The challenge of integration in the treatment of personality disorder

Journal title QUADERNI DI PSICOTERAPIA COGNITIVA
Author/s Clara Magrin, Elena Prunetti
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/33
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 65-80 File size 141 KB
DOI 10.3280/QPC2013-033005
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Main focus is toward the "borderline disorder" the only one with empiric studies done to prove that the specialty treatments provide tangible results. Today we have different way of treatment coming from different school of thought, all with proven results, but none has strong enough results to be definitely better than the others. In this study, we will show you different way of treatment, and the unicity of each of them, in order to prove the absence of a overall way of treatment which will be good for all the patient with a personality disorder The study will be focus on the possibility to develop effective cure which can be flexible and draw skills from different approach in order to help the therapists to adapt the treatment on the single patient. At the end, we will show you a practical example of integration done in a "Servizio" of hospital treatment regarding personality disorder, with the initial out come.

Keywords: Integrated treatment, borderline, personality disorders

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Clara Magrin, Elena Prunetti, La sfida dell’integrazione nel trattamento dei disturbi di personalità in "QUADERNI DI PSICOTERAPIA COGNITIVA" 33/2013, pp 65-80, DOI: 10.3280/QPC2013-033005