Case Study: Borderline Personality Disorder

This video answers the question: Can I analyze a case study of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)? This presentation reviewed here discusses some of the challenges with treating BPD in a college counseling center setting.

Borderline Personality Disorder:

In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), we see nine symptom criteria for borderline personality disorder and five have to be met for a diagnosis. The symptom criteria include frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, unstable relationships, identity disturbance, impulsivity in two areas that are potentially self-damaging, suicidal behavior, affective instability, chronic feelings of emptiness, inappropriate or intense anger or difficulty controlling anger, and paranoid ideation or dissociation. Borderline personality disorder is a Cluster B personality disorder, so it’s in the same cluster is antisocial, narcissistic, and histrionic personality disorders.

Draper, M. R., & Faulkner, G. E. (2009). Counseling a Student Presenting Borderline Personality Disorder in the Small College Context: Case Study and Implications. Journal of College Counseling, 12(1), 85–96.