Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness that causes a great deal of suffering for around 68,000 South Australians. There is a desperate need for the development of ‘best care’ pathways for those with the debilitating psychiatric disorder.
In July this year, Dr David Smith received an Impact Seed Funding Grant for Early Career Researchers from Flinders University for his research which aims to provide better treatment options for a person facing a BPD diagnosis and the opportunity to improve the management of their condition.
Dr Smith’s research project will use statistical modelling to evaluate conditional dependence and establish causation to develop effective psychological treatment pathways for Borderline Personality Disorder. The tool developed would support decision making analysis for mental health clinicians working in the community and in hospital emergency departments to provide more efficient treatment.
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