Treatment Options for Borderline Personality Disorder

Lecture Overview

Engaging presenter, Geoff Ahern, reviews a range of treatment options for people living with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Based on the NHMRC Clinical Practice Guidelines, Geoff explains the evidence behind primary treatments, including medication, exercise, nutrition, good quality sleep and stress management.

Educators

Geoffrey Ahern

Geoffrey Ahern is a senior mental health clinician and educator who splits his time between working with people in a mental health crisis in the ED setting and working proactively to educate other health professionals and the community about how to better understand mental health problems, as well as substance use and addiction. Over the years, he has gained extensive experience in emergency and trauma, rural nursing, alcohol and other drug counselling, and psychiatric nursing across both the public and private sectors. He holds a masters of health science (mental health and addiction). Geoff is particularly fascinated by the impact that exercise, nutrition, community, meaning and purpose, and practices like yoga have on a person’s mental health, as well as living a simple life of reflection, contentment and wonderment.