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Objectives<\/b><\/strong>
\n1. Define borderline personality disorder (BPD) as a psychiatric illness.
\n2. Understand the psychodynamic mechanisms underlying BPD, including problems in the individual’s sense of self and other.
\n3. Identify key defense mechanisms in BPD, such as splitting, projection, and projective identification.
\n4. Understand how these mechanisms play out in interpersonal relationships, including the treatment relationship.
\n5. Provide strategies for the theoretically-informed and compassionate treatment of patients with BPD.<\/p>\n

Description:
\n<\/b>Borderline Personality Disorder <\/b>is considered a severe and persistent mental disorder, marked by a pattern of intense and unstable relationships, unstable self-image, fear of abandonment, impulsive and often dangerous behaviours. The economic costs of BPD are thought to be twice that of major depression. The BPD individual can be difficult to live with and is considered by many to be difficult to treat. <\/span>In this webinar, BPD expert, Dr. Mark Ruffalo <\/b>will help practitioners to: define BPD;\u00a0 understand the psychodynamic mechanisms underlying BPD; identify key defence mechanisms, such as splitting, projection and projective identification; understand how these mechanisms play out in interpersonal relationships, including the treatment relationship; and importantly, provide strategies for the compassionate treatment of patients with BPD.<\/p>\n

Who Should Attend?:
\n<\/b>\u2022 Nurses, Physicians, Psychologists, Mental Health Nurses, Therapists in all settings
\n\u2022 Primary Care Nurses and Physicians; MH Staff in Community Settings
\n\u2022 Social Workers & Allied Professional Staff in Mental Health and Addictions Settings settings
\n\u2022 Intake & Frontline Staff; Mental Health Managers and Educators
\n\u2022 Mental Health Nurses and Staff in Adolescent, Correctional & Forensic Settings<\/p>\n

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Mark L. Ruffalo, MSW, DPsa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark L. Ruffalo, M.S.W., D.Psa.,<\/strong> is a psychotherapist in private practice in Tampa, FL, and serves as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine. He has experience in the psychodynamic treatment of a range of psychiatric conditions with particular interest in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder.<\/p>\n

During his training at the University of Pittsburgh, Mark had the opportunity to work with severely ill patients in long-term psychotherapy, an area in which he has developed recognized expertise. He has published previously in the American Journal of Psychotherapy,<\/i> the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic,<\/i> and the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.<\/i> He currently serves as Co-Director of the Psychotherapy Track at the UCF\/HCA Orlando psychiatry residency program and is Founding Editor of The Carlat Psychotherapy Report.<\/i><\/p>\n

His current research interests include the object relations theory of borderline personality disorder; communication dilemmas, paradoxes, and double binds in personality pathology; and deficits in logical reasoning in psychotic and borderline states. He has advanced the hypothesis that borderline personality disorder is fundamentally a disorder of paradox or self-contradiction.<\/p>\n

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Duration:<\/strong>
\n120 minutes including a Q&A<\/p>\n

Presenter:
\n<\/strong>Mark L. Ruffalo, MSW, Dpsa<\/p>\n

Includes:
\n<\/b>\u2022 A certificate of completion
\n\u2022 The on-demand recording to watch at your convenience
\n\u2022 A handout in PDF format for viewing or self-printing<\/p>\n

See below for the outline, speaker biography, and more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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