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Welcome
The Intensive Personality Disorder Program (IPDP) is an outpatient program
dedicated to the psychotherapeutic treatment and research advancements of
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The IPDP offers information on this site so that the general
public and health care professionals alike have the opportunity to enhance awareness
of this challenging psychiatric condition. Through education, understanding,
and support, the IPDP is dedicated to treating and researching this psychologically
disabling condition.
Mission
We are an interdisciplinary outpatient program dedicated to
providing integrative treatment, comprehensive assessment, and the standard
of care to individuals suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD)
and other personality pathologies. Our goal is to teach borderline patients
the skills that they will need to build and maintain strong interpersonal
relationships, change distressing emotional states, decrease behaviors that
interfere with the quality of life, improve self-esteem, decrease suicidal
behaviors and suicidal ideations, and increase positive behaviors that enhance
and sustain a patient's daily life.
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