Strategies for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder in a Couple Therapy Format

About the Course

Dr. Fitzpatrick and her colleagues have spent the past five years developing and testing Sage; a Dialectical Behavior Therapy-informed couple intervention for borderline personality disorder (BPD) and emotion dysregulation. This webinar will draw on lessons learned from the development, testing, and implementation of Sage to provide clinicians with concrete skills for treating BPD within a dyadic framework and/or incorporating partners into BPD treatment. Strategies for conceptualizing BPD/emotion dysregulation within a dyadic framework will be discussed. Targeted skills designed to facilitate interpersonal emotion regulation, including ways to encourage effective emotional expression, communication, and validation, and reduce invalidation in both members of the couple will be described.

Presenter

Dr Skye Fitzpatrick