Programmes
Borderline Personality Disorder
Clients with a borderline personality disorder will have a lifelong history of unstable interpersonal relationships, self-image and affect regulation present in a variety of contexts. The individual with borderline personality disorder may be potentially self-damaging and is extremely vulnerable to addiction, chemical dependence, compulsive behaviours and eating disorders.
More About Borderline Personality Disorder
CLOSEMedication may relieve some of the debilitating physical and psychological symptoms and destructive behaviours and stabilise mood. This will facilitate the psychotherapeutic process during which the client will have the opportunity to make intimate but boundaried connections to others and make fundamental and meaningful changes in thinking, behaviour and emotions.
When the client arrives at Montrose Place, they are thoroughly assessed and provided with a treatment plan that will enable them to learn to understand the underlying causes of borderline personality disorder, to transform their coping responses and recognize how to avoid subsequent addictions or dependencies.
Our extended care treatment programme for borderline personality disorder, as a co-morbid disorder, is an integrative programme that consists of the following elements:
