Updated guidelines from the American Psychiatric Association highlight psychotherapy as “the core of treatment” for borderline personality disorder in adolescents and adults.
George A. Keepers, MD, chair of the APA Practice Guideline Writing Group, said in a press release that he and his colleagues identified several important updates since the APA first published practice guidelines on borderline personality disorder (BPD) in 2001.
“First, several structured psychotherapies were found to be effective for treatment of BPD. No therapy emerged as a ‘gold standard’,”