User:IntentionallyDense/Personality disorder

The management of personality disorders such as antisocial, avoidant, borderline, dependent , histrionic, narcissistic, obsessive–compulsive, paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorder includes medication and therapy.^[1]

There is a limited amount of evidence in regards to the treatment of AvPD,^[2] DPD,^[3][4] HPD,^[5] NPD,^[6][7] OCPD,^[8][9] PPD,^[10] SzPD,^[11] and StPD.^[12] Proposed treatments include behavioural therapy, cognitive therapy, brief psychodynamic treatments, schema therapy, graded exposure, social skills training, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and supportive–expressive psychotherapy for AvPD;^[13][2] clarification-oriented psychotherapy and cognitive therapy for DPD;^[3][14] lifestyle modifications, medication, and psychotherapy such as CBT or group therapy for HPD;^[15][16] psychodynamic therapy, cognitive therapy, and radically open dialectical behaviour therapy for OCPD;^[8][9] CBT for PPD;^[10] medication, socialization groups, and psychodynamic psychotherapy for SzPD;^[11] and risperidone, olanzapine, and social skills training for STPD.^[17] Treatment guidelines focused on managing ASPD and BPD emphasize treating comorbid diagnoses.^[18][19] For ASPD, NICE guidelines recommend group therapy focused on cognitive and behavioural techniques to manage symptoms and discourage the use of medication to treat the symptoms associated with ASPD.^[19] The Cochrane Review for ASPD found that there was no good quality evidence for the use of medication or therapy for the treatment of ASPD.^[20][21] The NICE review for BPD recommended DBT and discouraged the use of medications in the treatment of BPD symptoms.^[18] The American Psychiatric Association and Cochrane both found that psychotherapy was effective in treating BPD but that the evidence for medication was weak.^[22][23][24]