Training Title:
Retired ~ Borderline Personality Part E

Clock Hours: 2

Objectives:
• Be able to identify 4 different types of Borderline Mothers. • Gain a beginning understanding of EMDR. • Develop a beginning understanding of the neurological bases of BPD and the use of medication.

Description:
While understanding of BPD has been traditionally grounded in psychodynamic formulations, it has been become increasingly clear that BPD emerges from vulnerabilities in brain function around the regulation of affect and impulse control. Research is beginning to show that the development of BPD depends on an interaction of constitutional biologic vulnerabilities with often adverse environmental circumstances during development.. This course is comprised of the following: Christine Lawson, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, "Borderline Mothers " and Larry Siever, MD. "Medication; Neuropsychology."

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