Collaboration Café: Treatment of Clients with Borderline Personality Disorder
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Treatment of Clients with Borderline Personality Disorder
Collaboration Café
Purpose
The purpose of the Collaboration Café is to encourage the meaningful application of course concepts, discuss advanced practice psychiatric and mental health nursing issues, and engage student leadership.
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO 4: Incorporate unique patient cultural preferences, values, and health beliefs in the care of the mental health patient. (POs 3, 5)
CO 5: Formulate an evidence-based therapeutic management plan for common mental health diagnoses based on the needs of the patient and family (PO 5)
Due Date
Initial posts are due to the discussion board by Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. MT. Peer responses are due by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. MT. Students must post on a minimum of two separate days. A 10% late penalty will be imposed for discussions posted after the deadline Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. MT, regardless of the number of days late. NOTHING will be accepted after 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday (i.e., the student will receive an automatic 0).
Total Points Possible
This collaboration café is worth a total of 100 points.
Preparing the Collaboration Café
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Log in to Neuroscience Education Institute (NEI) and listen to the Borderline Personality podcast (Episode 35) (Links to an external site.). Answer the following questions after reviewing the full presentation.
Initial Post
Clients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often engage in non-suicidal self–injury (NSSI) behavior; many clients also report chronic thoughts of suicide and non-fatal attempts of suicide. Treatment of clients with borderline personality disorder can be complex. Consider the following:
Define NSSI behavior.
Discuss how the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) differentiates between NSSI and suicide attempts.
Discuss evidence-based therapy for BPD. How does therapy interrupt the patterns of NSSI and suicidality?
What specific ethical and clinical challenges might the clinician face when treating clients with BPD who are suicidal?
Participating in the Collaboration Café
Respond to two separate peers with substantive dialogue that is collaborative.
Offer new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice to facilitate further discussion.
For full credit, submit your initial post by Wednesday at 11:59 PM MT. Complete your two responses to peers by Sunday at 11:59 PM MT.
**To view the grading criteria/rubric, please click on the 3 dots in the box at the end of the solid gray bar above the discussion board title and then Show Rubric.
Treatment of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder
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Treatment of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder
According to Reichl (2021), a borderline personality disorder is a condition that impacts how a person feels about who they are and other people. Consequently, it is a mental disorder, and this condition adversely affects how one functions in everyday life. Its main symptoms are an intense fear of abandonment, engaging in risky behavior, suicidal threats, and sometimes an ongoing feeling of emptiness (Luyten, 2020). The disorder is mainly diagnosed in adults and not children because signs detected in children who may be associated with this condition tend to go away as a child becomes more mature.
Definition of NSSI behavior
Reichl (2021) depicts that non-suicidal self-injury refers to an act of deliberately self-harming, but an individual does not do this with the intent of committing suicide. The most reported form of NSSI behavior is mainly individuals' burning themselves, cutting, or sometimes hitting themselves. Thus, although NSSI may be inflicted on any part of a person's body, the most common areas are the stomach, wrists, and thighs. According to Luyten (2020), NSSI is an unhealthy way that different individuals opt to use to regulate emotions. Thus, although individuals' main intention is not to commit suicide, NSSI still causes a lot of harm to individuals.
The Difference between NSSI and Suicide Attempts
Reichl (2021) states that a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner can differentiate when a patient has NSSI and suicide attempts. Thus, although NSSI is deemed the strongest predictor for various future suicide attempts among a large group of people, the two are distinct. Some factors that PMHNP uses to differentiate are measuring the level of anxiety and depression among individuals. Through the scores, a PMHNP can tell what a patient is going through. Thus, patients with suicidal attempts have higher lev...