# MHApps BPD – Identify Clear Role In Management – BPD EUPD GP Health Professional

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- 4. Decide on the role you plan to have in ongoing management Whatever your role in treatment is, it is very important that you are consistent in your approach and set up clear expectations and boundaries with the patient.
- - You may want to have a very distant role, having referred the person to a psychiatrist or psychologist to treat them.
  - You may want to take the primary role in therapy i.e. providing education, skill development support and possibly even therapeutic counselling.
  - Or you may want a role somewhere between the two where you are working collaboratively with a skilled clinician and other providers, where you have a specific and clearly defined role in following through on education, skill development support and so on.
- Only take on what you believe is professionally and emotionally safe for you. This might vary for different people. Stick with what is comfortable for you and extend your role only as you see fit.
  An important question to consider is whether you should be treating people with BPD / EUPD. If you are going to be engaging them in psychotherapy be very careful, as this group of patients is particularly complex and challenging. Without specific training and ongoing supervision you could be putting yourself at increased professional risk.

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