Publisher's Synopsis
Personality disorder now accounts for a substantial portion of the workload of
most community mental health teams in the UK and borderline personality disorder
is associated with significant functional impairments for the individual. The
NICE guideline takes the first comprehensive view of the disorder and is an
important resource for healthcare professionals to improve people's long-term
outcomes.
Recent years have seen an exponential rise in available
treatments for personality disorder and the guideline on borderline personality
disorder covers the available evidence on all of those interventions. It also
includes management of crises, configuration and organisation of services and
experience of care. The primary focus is on adults, but the guideline looks at
emerging characteristics of borderline personality disorder in younger people.
The guideline also considers the needs of those with learning disabilities and
contains a useful overview of borderline personality disorder.
NICE Mental Health Guidelines
These guidelines
from NICE set out clear recommendations, based on the best available evidence,
for health care professionals on how to work with and implement physical,
psychological and service-level interventions for people with various mental
health conditions.
The book contains the full guidelines that cannot be
obtained in print anywhere else. It brings together all of the evidence that led
to the recommendations made, detailed explanations of the methodology behind
their preparation, plus an overview of the condition covering detection,
diagnosis and assessment, and the full range of treatment and care
approaches.
The accompanying free CD-ROM contains all the data used as
evidence, including:
- Included and excluded studies.
- Profile tables that summarise both the quality of the evidence and the results of the evidence synthesis.
- All meta-analytical data, presented as forest plots.
- Detailed information about how to use and interpret forest plots.
