ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2017
Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder in Emergency Departments.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Feasibility and Efficacy of Brief DBT Intervention for Adults With Borderline Personality Disorder/Traits: A Systematic Review.Personality and mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of outpatient and community treatments for people with a diagnosis of 'personality disorder': systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Crisis interventions for adults with borderline personality disorder.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Unmet challenges in treating hypertension in patients with borderline personality disorder: A systematic review.Medicine · 2019Pooled it
- Evaluation of a brief intervention within a stepped care whole of service model for personality disorder.BMC psychiatry · 2019Trial
- Treatment of personality disorder using a whole of service stepped care approach: A cluster randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2018Trial
- A Qualitative Exploration of Trainee Nurse Practitioners' Experiences and Readiness to Provide Care for Borderline Personality Disorder in Primary Care.International journal of mental health nursing · 2026Article
- Holding the treatment frame: borderline features, personality functioning, and psychotherapy dropout in a youth mental health service.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2026Article
- Treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder in the emergency room? A scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Psychiatric Emergency Visits of Autistic Adults With or Without Documented Borderline Personality Disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Suicidal and self-harm behaviors in emergency psychiatry: bridging risk assessment and clinical decision-making.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Enhancing psychiatry education: effectiveness of a psychodynamic psychotherapy module for borderline personality disorder for psychiatry residents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Borderline personality disorder Athens study: a quasi-experimental pragmatic trial for the assessment of a public, psychodynamic, stepped care service for borderline personality disorder patients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- A Comprehensive Understanding of Psychomotor Agitation: From Causes to Hospital Care.Current neuropharmacology · 2025Review
- A proposed clinical pathway for the patients with Borderline Personality Disorder presenting to Emergency Departments.Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists · 2023Article
- The impact of mental health stigma in a young Malaysian lady with recurrent suicidal ideations and moribund presentations to the Emergency Department: a case report.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Linehan's biosocial model applied to emotion dysregulation in autism: a narrative review of the literature and an illustrative case conceptualization.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Mental Health Workers' Knowledge and Attitude Towards Borderline Personality Disorder: A Saudi Multicenter Study.Cureus · 2022Article
- Emergency department utilisation by patients with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder: An acute response to a chronic disorder.Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA · 2022Article
- Structural stigma and its impact on healthcare for borderline personality disorder: a scoping review.International journal of mental health systems · 2022Article
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Abstract
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) patients, when in crisis, are frequent visitors of emergency departments (EDs). When these patients exhibit symptoms such as aggressiveness, impulsivity, intense anxiety, severe depression, self-harm, and suicidal attempts or gestures, diagnosis, and treatment of the BPD becomes challenging for ED doctors. This review will, therefore, outline advice to physicians and health-care providers who face this challenging patient population in the EDs. Crisis intervention should be the first objective of clinicians when dealing with BPD in the emergency. For the patients with agitation, symptom-specific pharmacotherapy is usually recommended, while for non-agitated patients, short but intensive psychotherapy especially dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has a positive effect. Although various psychotherapies, either alone or integrated, are preferred modes of treatment for this group of patients, the effects of psychotherapies on BPD outcomes are small to medium. Proper risk management along with developing a positive attitude and empathy toward these patients will help them in normalizing in an emergency setting after which treatment course can be decided.
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