Top ten additional resource-efficient treatment strategies

This chapter describes ten strategies that are additional to those previously described. The effective specialist BPD treatments that have been drawn mostly from in this chapter are DBT and mentalization-based therapy as these are the two BPD treatments with the most robust evidence base. Strategies include mentalizing and mindfulness; valued action irrespective of emotions; self-acceptance; accepting thoughts and valued action; changing thoughts; decreasing hyperarousal; chain analysis; structure; DBT skills and clinical feedback of treatment outcomes.