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Commonly Confused: Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder

CE Hours 1

About this course

Borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder are both characterized, in part, by major mood swings. This partial similarity in mood shifts, going from an extremely high mood to a very low mood, causes many people, including some clinicians, to confuse the two disorders. A brief review of the research literature will support the clinical assessment and diagnostic distinction between these two disorders. Differential diagnosis is important in the context of the treatment of eating disorders as both diagnoses are known to co-occur more often than in the general population. Findings from our residential population indicate that individuals with eating disorders present with higher rates of bipolar disorder than the general population. We present recently published data on the occurrence of bipolar disorder in adult residential treatment at Monte Nido & Affiliates.

Learning Objectives

  • Assess relevant aspects of family history, developmental antecedents, and illness course to delineate each diagnosis.
  • Define key differentiating factors in the differential diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and borderline personality disorder.
  • Distinguish phenomenological differences in mood states, personality style and relationship factors.

Learning Levels

  • Beginner
  • Intermediate

Course Instructor(s)

  • Giulia Suro, PhD, CEDS

    Giulia Suro, Ph.D., CEDS is the Director of Research and Clinical Outcomes for Monte Nido. In this role, she directs the day-to-day operations of a nation-wide, IRB-approved research program in capturing the treatment outcomes of women and men diagnosed with range of eating disorder diagnoses across all levels of care. As a member of the broader research program, she helps translate this data to meaningful findings that may inform treatment and improve the field of eating disorders. Prior to this position, she served as a Postdoctoral Resident, Primary Therapist and Clinical Director and Oliver Pyatt Centers. She is also a passionate student and practitioner of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and published an ACT workbook titled “Learning to Thrive” in 2019.

  • Katherine Craigen, PhD

    As the Director of Clinical Integrity and Innovation at Monte Nido & Affiliates Care, Kate is consistently evolving clinical programs, to ensure that clients receive evidence-based therapies that blend their needs with clinical integrity. Kate completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Clinical Internship at the New Jersey VA Healthcare System, and Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Eating and Weight Disorders Program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She has treated adolescents and adults with eating disorders since 2008 and has been dedicated to improving treatment of binge eating disorder at since 2016.

References

  • Brewerton TD, Gavidia I, Suro G, Perlman MM. Associations between major depressive and bipolar disorders and eating disorder, PTSD, and comorbid symptom severity in eating disorder patients. Eur Eat Disord Rev. 2023 Oct 3. doi: 10.1002/erv.3035.
  • Bayes, A., Parker, G., & Paris, J. (2019). Differential Diagnosis of Bipolar II Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder. Current psychiatry reports, 21(12), 125. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-019-1120-2
  • Zimmerman M, Balling C, Chelminski I, Dalrymple K. Patients with borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder: a descriptive and comparative study. Psychological Medicine. 2021;51(9):1479-1490. doi:10.1017/S0033291720000215

CE Process Info

Content

  • Presentation Recording
    1 parts
    • Commonly Confused: Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
  • Quiz
    1 parts
    • Quiz
  • National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)

    Monte Nido & Affiliates has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6782. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Monte Nido & Affiliates is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

FAQs

  • Provider Contact Info
    Monte Nido & Affiliates 6100 SW 76th St., South Miami, FL 33143 stayconnected@montenido.com 888-859-9943 www.montenido.com
  • CE Process Info
    Each professional is responsible for the individual requirements as stipulated by his/her licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Please note: You must complete self-paced / home study events in their entirety to earn CE credits. Before the event, you will receive an email from CE-Go with access to the self-paced / home-study event. After the event, you will receive access to your evaluation and continuing education certificate via a personalized "attendee dashboard" link, hosted on the CE-Go website. This link and access to the virtual event will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event. Upon accessing the CE-Go "attendee dashboard", you will be able to: Complete evaluation forms for the event Complete your post-event quiz Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format If you have any questions or concerns regarding the CE-Go platform, please contact CE-Go at 888-498-5578 or by email at support@ce-go.com Please Note: Emails for this event will come from "support@ce-go.com". If you have any continuing education related questions, please contact your event organizer at stayconnected@montenido.com Please make sure to check your spam/junk folder in case those emails get "stuck". We'd also suggest "Allowlisting" support@ce-go.com. This tells your email client that you know this sender and trust them, which will keep emails from this contact at the top of your inbox and out of the junk folder.
  • Grievance
    While Monte Nido goes to great lengths to assure fair treatment for all participants and attempts to anticipate problems, there will be occasional issues which require intervention and/or action. When a participant, either orally or in written format, files a grievance and expects action on the complaint, the following actions will be taken. 1. If the grievance concerns a speaker or the content presented by the speaker the individual filing the grievance will be asked to put his/her comments in written format. 2. If the grievance concerns MN CE program, in a specific regard, the CE Chair will attempt to arbitrate. Please contact stayconnected@montenidoaffiliates.com to submit a complaint, or if you have additional questions.
  • Disability Accomodation
    For in-person events: Our locations are all ADA accessible as required by law for those with ambulatory challenges, and we work with interpreters or translators as requested for other accommodations, as well as provide additional written material to reference for those who are hearing impaired. Additionally, we would not host any educational events at a venue that was not ADA compliant. For virtual events: We host our virtual webinars on ZOOM and provide the following accessibility features during all our virtual webinars: Live Captioning, Large Display Settings, Keyboard Accessibility, Screen Reader Support, and Recorded Presentations.
  • Refund
    Monte Nido Continuing Education Offerings are free of charge and offered to provide a heightened awareness and sensitivity in the treatment of eating disorders.
  • Cancellation
    Registration is completed online. There is no requirement to notify the event manager of a cancellation.
Commonly Confused: Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
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  • Publication Date
    Aug 9th, 2024

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