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Australas Psychiatry · Mar 2004
Professionally indicated short-term risk-taking in the treatment of borderline personality disorder.
- Roy Krawitz, Wendy Jackson, Ruth Allen, Ann Connell, Nick Argyle, Clive Bensemann, and Cris Mileshkin.
- Mental Health Administration, Health Waikato, PO Box 934, Hamilton, New Zealand. roykrawitz@xtra.co.nz
- Australas Psychiatry. 2004 Mar 1; 12 (1): 11-7.
ObjectiveTo define and explore the rationale for professionally indicated short-term risk-taking in treating adults with borderline personality disorder, and discuss prerequisites for the approach, clinical implementation and medicolegal contexts.ConclusionWhen prerequisites are met and clinical and medicolegal practice is sound and thorough, taking short-term risk, as part of a comprehensive treatment, is a legitimate professional consideration in working with some adults with borderline personality disorder.
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