A psychotherapeutic workbook that clinicians can use with those newly diagnosed with borderline personality disorder to provide basic information about the disorder and to suggest ways for clients to manage the disorder.
Understanding Your Borderline Personality Disorder: A Workbook offers basic information about borderline personality disorder. The book is interactive so that clients can explore their own attitudes and concerns about their diagnosis and tackles some of the common misperceptions…
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has quickly become a treatment of choice for individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), suicidal behavior, non-suicidal self injury, and other complicated psychiatric conditions. However, there are very few well-trained DBT practit…
Kreger draws on new research to provide advice for navigating life with someone who has borderline personality disorder. Step-by-step suggestions--many from users of the author's comprehensive Web site--help readers set and enforce personal limits, communicate clearly, cope with…
"The symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) include severe mood shifts, unfounded accusations and wildly inappropriate displays of anger, a range of self-destructive behaviors, and frantic efforts to avoid abandonment. For the friends and families of people with BPD, …
This practical guide to living with a person who suffers from a personality disorder, shows readers how to set limits and boundaries, communicate clearly, make realistic decisions, and develop a safety plan.
This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to borderline personality disorder. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update th…
"Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) present extraordinary challenges to mental health clinicians. Yet in recent years, scientific understanding of the disorder has grown, and more effective therapeutic approaches have been developed. Organizing a vast body of re…
Organizing a vast body of scientific literature, this indispensable book presents the state of the art in understanding borderline personality disorder (BPD) and distills key treatment principles that therapists need to know. Rather than advocating a particular approach, Joel Pa…
"Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) present extraordinary challenges to mental health clinicians. Yet in recent years, scientific understanding of the disorder has grown, and more effective therapeutic approaches have been developed. Organizing a vast body of re…
Organizing a vast body of scientific literature, this indispensable book presents the state of the art in understanding borderline personality disorder (BPD) and distills key treatment principles that therapists need to know. Rather than advocating a particular approach, Joel Pa…