"Working With (Not Against) Borderline Personality Disorder: An Integrative, Evidence-Based Approach"
About the Speaker:
Benjamin N. Johnson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Clinical Psychology PhD Program
School of Psychology and Counseling
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Dr. Benjamin Johnson received his B.A. from Emory University in 2012 with a double major in Psychology and English. Afterwards, he spent two years as a Research Coordinator in the Emory Child and Adolescent Mood Program working with adolescents and young adults with borderline personality disorder. He later received his MS and PhD from Penn State University and is currently working as an assistant professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey. Dr. Johnson currently studies personality disorders, with a focus on borderline personality disorder, and is interested in improving assessment and treatment of non-suicidal self-harm, suicide, and other behaviors often linked to personality disorders. He is also interested in the role of trauma and significant relationships in the development of personality disorders as well as in the similarities and differences between chronic physical and psychological pain and the role of self-harm in pain and emotion regulation.
Summary:
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is highly prevalent in psychiatric settings. This presentation presents an integrative, evidence-based approach to BPD for diverse settings and practitioners. It highlights dialectical behavior therapy skill-building alongside psychodynamic, process-oriented strategies, to reduce provider burnout, increase patient retention, and promote therapeutic gains. .
Objectives:
The activity is designed to help the learner
1) Apply at least two evidence-based principles of care for patients with borderline personality disorder in a range of settings (e.g., inpatient, outpatient) and clinical encounters (e.g., med management, case management)
2) Identify their own reactions to patients with borderline personality disorder and use this information therapeutically with their patients
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This talk is sponsored by the
Hollender Lecture Fund
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
This educational activity received no commercial support.