The Effectiveness of Teaching Applied Transference Focused Psychotherapy on the Attitudes and Technical Confidence of Psychiatry Trainees in Malaysia, on the Management of Patients with Personality Disorder.

Aims: Psychiatric trainees are often the “first responders” to manage patients with personality disorders but receive little specific training in this. Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is a manualized evidence-based treatment for severe personality disorders based on a psychodynamic approach...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Muhammad Nur Arif Abdul Rassip, Salina Mohamed, Salmi Razali, Dinah Rasidi, Tennyson Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2025-06-01
Series:BJPsych Open
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056472425102500/type/journal_article
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Aims: Psychiatric trainees are often the “first responders” to manage patients with personality disorders but receive little specific training in this. Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is a manualized evidence-based treatment for severe personality disorders based on a psychodynamic approach that focuses on object relations theory. There is an expanding experience in applying TFP in different psychiatric settings. While there is evidence of effective training of applied TFP in the UK, Europe, South Africa and India, TFP training in Malaysia is a relatively new concept.
ISSN:2056-4724