Psychiatry: Borderline Personality Disorder/Impulse Control Disorders (Audio-Digest Foundation Psychiatry Continuing Medical Education (CME). Book 38)

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Psychiatry is specifically designed to provide the participant with useful and up-to-date information on accurate diagnosis and appropriate management in all types of psychiatric disorders, including, but not limited to:

Anxiety disorders
Dementia, delirium, amnesia, and other cognitive disorders
Geriatric psychiatry
Mental disorders in childhood and adolescence
Mood disorders
Multiaxial illnesses
Personality disorders
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Sexual disorders and paraphilias
Sleep disorders
Substance-related disorders

The goals of this program are to update information on the Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) program for persons with borderline personality disorder, and to improve the recognition of impulse control disorders in Parkinson’s disease. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Identify borderline personality disorder (BPD).

2: Discuss traditional treatment for BPD.

3: Consider integrating the STEPPS program as an adjunct to traditional treatment for BPD.

4: Recognize impulse control disorders (ICDs) that occur as side effects of treatment in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD).

5: Compare and contrast dopamine dysregulation syndrome with ICDs in patients with PD.