To present an array of contemporary, clinical approaches for the treatment of borderline personality disorder.

Location

The conference site is Baylor College of Medicine, an affiliate of The Menninger Clinic, in the Texas Medical Center.

Cullen Auditorium
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, Texas 77030
 

For a map, visit www.bcm.edu/maps/

Attendees are responsible for their own parking and parking fees. Cost is $10 for parking over six hours in Texas Medical Center garages. Parking garage validation machines accept debit and credit cards as well as cash.

7 am

Registration and continental breakfast

Welcome remarks – John M. Oldham, MD, MS

Senior vice president and chief of staff, The Menninger Clinic; professor of psychiatry and executive vice chair, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Borderline Personality Disorder: Overview of Recent Research Findings

Presenter: John M. Oldham, MD, MS

Senior vice president and chief of staff, The Menninger Clinic; professor of psychiatry and executive vice chair, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Objectives

1. Recognize current research findings regarding the etiology and neurobiology of borderline personality disorder (BPD).

2. Describe evidence-based recommendations for treatment of patients with BPD.

3. Identify longitudinal studies of BPD that support new ways of categorizing and defining the disorder, which will guide the DSM-V planning process.

Mentalizing in the Treatment of BPD

Presenter: Jon G. Allen, PhD

Director of psychology, The Menninger Clinic; professor of psychiatry and Helen Malsin Palley Chair in Mental Health Research, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Objectives

1. Explain how attachment relationships influence mentalizing development.

2. Discuss the basic principles of mentalizing-focused, BPD treatment.

9:45 am

Break with refreshments

10 am

Evidence-Based Treatment of BPD

Presenter: Glen O. Gabbard, MD

Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis and professor of psychiatry, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine; director, Baylor Psychiatric Clinic, Houston, Texas

Objectives

1. Discuss the research base for use of medications in BPD treatment.

2. Contrast the types of psychotherapy that have been shown to be efficacious with patients who have BPD.

11 am

Family Psychoeducation for BPD

Presenter: Perry D. Hoffman, PhD

President, National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder, Rye, New York

Objectives

1. Acknowledge the impact of BPD on family members.

2. Identify the role of family psychoeducation for relatives of persons with BPD.

3. Describe specific skills to increase family members’ coping strategies.

11:45 am

Lunch – included in registration fee

Borderline Personality as a Self-Other Representational Disturbance

Presenter: Donna S. Bender, PhD

Research director, Institute for Mental Health Research, Phoenix, Arizona; research associate professor of psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

Objectives

1. Identify the role of mental representations of self and others in the context of BPD.

2. Consider treatment implications of a self-other representational model of BPD.

New Developments in the Neurobiology of BPD

Presenter: Larry J. Siever, MD

Professor of psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York; director, Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), Bronx VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York, New York

Objectives

1. Recognize that BPDs have neurobiologic substrates.

2. Acknowledge that these substrates provide a rationale for pharmacotherapy.

3. Accept that the neurobiology of BPDs has implications for psychosocial treatment.

Break

Borderline Personality Disorder in DSM-V

Presenter: Andrew E. Skodol, MD

President, Institute for Mental Health Research, Phoenix, Arizona; research professor of psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona

Objectives

1. Describe the goals for the DSM-V and the process of revision.

2. Explain how BPD might be described and diagnosed according to alternative models being considered for DSM-V psychiatric diagnoses.

Continuing Education Credit

The Borderline Personality Disorder: New Clinical Approaches conference offers the following continuing education credits: nurses, 7.0 contact hours; physicians 7.0 American Medical Association Physician’s Recognition Award (AMA PRA) and credit system Category 1 Credits; and 7.0 for counselors, psychologists and social workers.

Physicians

The Menninger Clinic is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Menninger Clinic designates this educational activity for a maximum of 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Psychologists

The Menninger Clinic is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Menninger Clinic maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This conference is offered for 7.0 credits for psychologists.

Social Workers

The Menninger Clinic, Provider #CS3953, is approved by the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners to offer continuing education for social workers. This conference is offered for 7.0 Continuing Education Units for social workers licensed in Texas. We adhere to the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners Continuing Education Guidelines.

Counselors

The Menninger Clinic is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP is responsible for all aspects of the program. This continuing education activity is available for 7.0 clock hours.

Nurses

The Menninger Clinic is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This activity provides 7.0 contact hours meeting the Type 1 criteria for mandatory continuing education requirements toward relicensure as established by the Board of Nurse Examiners for

the State of Texas.

Addictions Counselors

This conference offers addiction professionals 7.0 general, continuing education hours as approved by The Menninger Clinic, a TCBAP Standards Committee-approved provider (No. 1741-06, expiration 07/2008) of continuing education for addiction professionals. The Menninger Clinic takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this continuing education activity.

Joint sponsorship

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through joint sponsorship of The Menninger Clinic and the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder and NAMI Metropolitan Houston. The Menninger Clinic is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing education for physicians and is also approved to provide continuing education for psychologists, social workers, counselors, nurses and addiction counselors by their respective accrediting/approving organizations.

For information about the conference

If you have questions or would like additional information, please call the Menninger Education Office staff.