ATTITUDES OF PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: EFFECTS OF A WORKSHOP AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
This article presents the effects of a 12 hour training workshop about the intervention and treatment of personality disorders (PD) on attitudes toward borderline personality disorder (BPD) and highligts the differences among mental health professionals. Participants completed a sociodemographic questionnaire and a French language scale designed in Quebec to measure attitudes toward BPD (ÉA-TPL; Bouchard, 2001) that benefits from a preliminary factorial validation. The results suggest that there was an improvement in the overall score as well as in the two factors, Favorable Perceptions and Ease with Interactions. The higher amount of previous training, the better perceived quality of it as well as the greater volume of clientele with BPD were associated with more positive attitudes prior to the workshop. Working in a setting that does not necessarily offer mental health services and being 40 or older were associated with less susceptibility to change after the workshop.