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Borderline Personality Disorder Center for Treatment and Research
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Borderline Center's Treatment
The McLean Center for the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder believes that properly designed and provided treatments can result in improvements in emotional, behavioral, and functional symptoms which can be detected early in the course of treatment.
The Center routinely collects data on patients' levels of BPD symptom severity and associated behavioral, emotional, interpersonal and functioning difficulties. The Center uses these data to monitor each patients' progress in treatment while at the Center, and to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the treatment interventions offered through the Borderline Center.
Preliminary results have shown that the Borderline Center effectively treats symptoms across a wide variety of domains including mood and emotion dysregulation, self-harm and suicidality, and global functioning and that while these improvements are gradual, they can be observed following a relatively short (i.e., 1-3 month) treatment at the partial hospital and intensive outpatient levels of care.
If you are interested in learning more about this study please contact John Gunderson, MD at 617-855-2293 or email psychosocial@mcleanpo.mclean.org
Personnel
- John G. Gunderson, M.D. - Principal Investigator, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital