Recommendations for applying a multi-dimensional model of impulsive personality to diagnosis and treatment
AbstractThe UPPS-P Model of Impulsive Personality, a prominent model of impulsive personality derived from the Five Factor Model of Personality, is a multi-dimensional model of impulsive personality that consists of negative urgency, lack of premeditation, lack of perseveration, sensation seeking, and positive urgency. The UPPS-P model has highlighted the importance of separating multidimensional traits due to the specificity of these traits corresponding to different risk behaviors. The goal of the current review paper is to make recommendations on how to apply the UPPS-P Model of Impulsive Personality, to diagnosis of an...
Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation - April 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Building a strong European alliance for personality disorder research and intervention
AbstractPeople with personality disorders frequently face stigma, ignorance and pessimism regarding the treatability of their disorders. This is despite substantial progress that has been made in developing a number of effective evidence based psychotherapeutic treatments. However, expertise in how to systematically deliver these treatments in a sustainable way throughout Europe is largely lacking. To bridge the gap between evidence based treatments and their implementation in health services, the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders is currently building a new alliance of experts to promote personality ...
Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation - April 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The role of maternal care in borderline personality disorder and dependent life stress
ConclusionsAlthough maternal care was not found to moderate the association between BPD and dependent life stress, results supported previously found relations between BPD, dependent life stress, and maternal care, and did so within a diverse inpatient adolescent sample. (Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation)
Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation - March 20, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Impulsive dispositions and alcohol: what we know, how we know it, and where to go from here
ConclusionsMore work is necessary to further this area of research, including establishing consistent nomenclature and a cohesive conceptualization of impulsigenic traits as they relate to alcohol use and alcohol use disorders. (Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation)
Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation - March 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Exploring dialectical behaviour therapy clinicians ’ experiences of team consultation meetings
ConclusionsTeam consultation meetings were found to be supportive; playing an important role in maintaining clinician motivation through the availability of team support, opportunities to reflect and learn, and assistance in regulating emotions. Challenges arose in relation to team membership changes and acclimatisation to the type of feedback utilised in team consultation. The study ’s implications for practise are considered. (Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation)
Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation - February 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Impact of prenatal stress on mother-infant dyadic behavior during the still-face paradigm
ConclusionsThe results suggest a beneficial effect of higher psychosocial PS and higher prenatal maternal HPA axis activity in late gestation, which is in line with “stress inoculation” theories. (Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation)
Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The rewarding nature of provocation-focused rumination in women with borderline personality disorder: a preliminary fMRI investigation
ConclusionsThese findings, while preliminary due to the small sample size and limitations of the protocol, provide initial data consistent with the proposed neurobiological mechanism promoting provocation-focused rumination in BPD. Directions for further research are discussed. (Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation)
Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation - January 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Specificity of emotion sequences in borderline personality disorder compared to posttraumatic stress disorder, bulimia nervosa, and healthy controls: an e-diary study
ConclusionsReplicating previously found dysregulated and unaltered emotional sequences strengthens the significance of emotion sequences. However, the lack of specificity points to emotion sequences as transdiagnostic features. (Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation)
Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation - December 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

A prospective, longitudinal, study of men with borderline personality disorder with and without comorbid antisocial personality disorder
ConclusionBPD comorbid with ASPD was associated with violent criminal offending in adolescence and most strongly in adulthood, elevated levels of psychopathic traits, and childhood disruptive behaviour. BPD showed similar characteristics but to a much less degree. (Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation)
Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation - December 7, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research