Managing Personality

Power Skills for Collaborative Team Processes

Cultural Considerations for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion With Best Practices Through Change & Crises w 3 Slide Decks

Power Skills for Collaborative Team Processes

What is borderline personality disorder and what can people with borderline problems do to help themselves?

What is borderline personality disorder and what can people with borderline problems do to help themselves?
The treatment of personality disorder is a major concern facing current mental health services. Specialist therapies are often not available and many people with these problems drop out of treatment.

Half in Love With Death presents a new way for therapists to manage chronically suicidal patients, an incredibly challenging task for clinicians and one where an insufficient amount of literature exists to guide professionals. Author Joel Paris suggests an approach that defies conventional wisdoms about whether suicide can be predicted or prevented. He asserts that managing chronically suicidal patients begins with tolerating suicidality, understanding the inner world of patients, avoiding repeated hospitalizations, and focusing on life situations that maintain suicidal ideas and behaviors.