Recovery in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): a qualitative study of service users' perspectives.
Symptom improvement in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is more common than previously hypothesised. However, it remains unclear whether it reflects service users' personal goals of recovery. The present study aimed to explore what service users with BPD view as recovery.48 service users w...
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| author | Christina Katsakou Stamatina Marougka Kirsten Barnicot Kirsten Barnicot Mark Savill Hayley White Kate Lockwood Stefan Priebe |
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| description | Symptom improvement in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is more common than previously hypothesised. However, it remains unclear whether it reflects service users' personal goals of recovery. The present study aimed to explore what service users with BPD view as recovery.48 service users were recruited from secondary mental health services and their views on their personal goals and the meaning of recovery were explored in in-depth semi-structured interviews. The study drew on grounded theory and thematic analysis.Service users believed that recovery involved developing self-acceptance and self-confidence, gaining control over emotions, improving relationships, employment, and making progress in symptoms like suicidality and self-harming. They felt that psychotherapies for BPD often had an extreme focus on specific areas, like self-harming or relationships, and that some of their goals were neglected. Although full recovery was seen as a distant goal, interviewees felt that they could learn how to deal with their problems in more effective ways and make meaningful progress in their lives.Specialist therapies for BPD explicitly address some of the recovery goals that are important to service users, whereas other goals are only indirectly or poorly addressed. Professionals might need to work with service users towards devising comprehensive individualised case formulations, including all treatment targets that are important to service users, their priorities, and long-term plans on how their targets might be met and which services might be involved. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1442d60b5ebd44128cf13291d419056e2022-12-21T17:45:13ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-0175e3651710.1371/journal.pone.0036517Recovery in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): a qualitative study of service users' perspectives.Christina KatsakouStamatina MarougkaKirsten BarnicotKirsten BarnicotMark SavillHayley WhiteKate LockwoodStefan PriebeSymptom improvement in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is more common than previously hypothesised. However, it remains unclear whether it reflects service users' personal goals of recovery. The present study aimed to explore what service users with BPD view as recovery.48 service users were recruited from secondary mental health services and their views on their personal goals and the meaning of recovery were explored in in-depth semi-structured interviews. The study drew on grounded theory and thematic analysis.Service users believed that recovery involved developing self-acceptance and self-confidence, gaining control over emotions, improving relationships, employment, and making progress in symptoms like suicidality and self-harming. They felt that psychotherapies for BPD often had an extreme focus on specific areas, like self-harming or relationships, and that some of their goals were neglected. Although full recovery was seen as a distant goal, interviewees felt that they could learn how to deal with their problems in more effective ways and make meaningful progress in their lives.Specialist therapies for BPD explicitly address some of the recovery goals that are important to service users, whereas other goals are only indirectly or poorly addressed. Professionals might need to work with service users towards devising comprehensive individualised case formulations, including all treatment targets that are important to service users, their priorities, and long-term plans on how their targets might be met and which services might be involved.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3355153?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Christina Katsakou Stamatina Marougka Kirsten Barnicot Kirsten Barnicot Mark Savill Hayley White Kate Lockwood Stefan Priebe Recovery in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): a qualitative study of service users' perspectives. PLoS ONE |
| title | Recovery in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): a qualitative study of service users' perspectives. |
| title_full | Recovery in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): a qualitative study of service users' perspectives. |
| title_fullStr | Recovery in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): a qualitative study of service users' perspectives. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Recovery in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): a qualitative study of service users' perspectives. |
| title_short | Recovery in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): a qualitative study of service users' perspectives. |
| title_sort | recovery in borderline personality disorder bpd a qualitative study of service users perspectives |
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