The Department of Health and Ageing has commissioned the NHMRC to develop a clinical practice guideline for the management of borderline personality disorder (BPD).
Scope
The guideline will examine diagnosis, treatment and management options for adolescents and adults with BPD. The guideline will be suitable for use by mental health clinicians and other health professionals who provide care to people with BPD in primary, secondary, community and specialist health care settings, as well as being useful for mental health service planners. It will include recommendations aimed at identifying the most effective psychosocial and pharmacological interventions, and will be adapted from the United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines.
Guideline Development Process
The guideline will be developed in accordance with NHMRC standards and involve the review of existing evidence and international guidelines, in particular the NICE Guideline on the Treatment and Management of Borderline Personality Disorder (2009). The NHMRC will adapt the NICE guideline for Australian health-care settings with the assistance of a multidisciplinary guideline development committee. Members of the BPD Guideline Development Committee are listed below.
Borderline Personality Disorder Guideline Development Committee Members
|
Name |
Title |
Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
|
CHAIR Dr Michael Smith |
Clinical Director |
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
|
Prof Louise Newman (AM) |
Director of the Monash University Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology Professor of Developmental Psychiatry, Monash University Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Newcastle |
Monash University |
|
Dr Andrew Chanen |
Senior Lecturer, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne Consultant Psychiatrist and Associate Medical Director, Orygen Youth Health |
University of Melbourne |
|
Prof Mike Hazelton |
Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Newcastle Fellow |
Australian College of Mental Health Nurses |
|
Prof Jane Gunn |
Chair, Primary Care Research and Head of the Department of General Practice, General Practice and Primary Health Care Academic Centre, Melbourne Medical School, Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne |
University of Melbourne |
|
Prof Brin Grenyer |
Scientific Director of Neuroscience and Mental Health Professor of Psychology Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute |
University of Wollongong |
|
Ms Teresa Stevenson |
Specialist Clinical Psychologist. Discipline Coordinator of Psychology and Team Leader of the Early Episode Psychosis Program |
Peel and Rockingham Kwinana Mental Health Services |
|
Ms Janne McMahon |
Chair and Executive Officer of Private Mental Health Consumer Carer Network (Australia) |
Private Mental Health Consumer Network |
|
Mr Fred Ford |
Carer Representative |
Mental Health Council of Australia |
|
Dr Anthony Korner |
Senior Lecturer Acting Director, Westmead Psychotherapy Program |
University of Sydney and Senior Staff Specialist, Sydney West Area Health Network |
|
Dr Sathya Rao |
Clinical Director, Consultant Psychiatrist |
Spectrum, The Personality Disorder Service for Victoria |
Public Consultation
The draft of the clinical practice guideline is now available on the NHMRC website for public comment.
Closing Date - 14 May 2012 - 5:00pm
Please register your interest by emailing your details to bpd@nhmrc.gov.au to receive updates on the progress of the BPD guideline development.
Timeline
The guideline is expected to be completed by November 2012.
More information
Contact Details
Email: bpd@nhmrc.gov.au
Phone: 03 8866 0400