THE INTEGRATED PERSONALITY TREATMENT FRAMEWORK: A Clinical Treatment Manual and Client Workbook for Personality Disorder Recovery

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The Integrated Personality Treatment Framework: A Clinical Treatment Manual and Client Workbook for Personality Disorder Recovery

The IPTF is organised into three sequential stages, each addressing a distinct level of personality dysfunction and each drawing primarily upon a different evidence-based therapeutic tradition, sequenced according to a coherent clinical rationale grounded in developmental neuroscience and attachment theory.

Stage 1 — Stabilisation and Safety draws upon Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to address the neurobiological level of dysfunction: the emotional dysregulation, impulsive behaviour, and crisis-driven self-harm that constitute the most immediately dangerous manifestations of personality disorder.

Stage 2 — Cognitive Mapping and Schema Work draws upon Schema-Focused Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Personality Disorder, delivered within a mentalising therapeutic stance drawn from Mentalisation-Based Treatment, to address the cognitive and relational level of dysfunction: the maladaptive core beliefs, dysfunctional coping modes, and distorted internal working models that sustain the personality disorder across the lifespan.

Stage 3 — Functional Recovery and Identity Consolidation addresses the social and developmental level of dysfunction: the vocational difficulties, social isolation, identity confusion, and absence of meaningful purpose that so frequently persist even after psychological stabilisation has been achieved.