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Borderline Personality Disorder


 

 

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Borderline Personality Disorder

Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment

Edited by Perry D. Hoffman, PhD

President, National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder, Inc.

Penny Steiner-Grossman, EdD, MPH

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

 

 Full of practical, useable ideas for the betterment of those affected by BPD, Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment is a valuable resource for social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and counselors, as well as students, researchers, and academics in the mental health field, family members, loved ones, and anyone directly affected by BPD.

 

Publication Date: June 1, 2008.

Available: Available Spring 2008.

$40.00 soft. ISBN: 978-0-7890-3234-8.

$85.00 hard ISBN: 978-0-7890-3233-1.

Pages: Approx. 275 pp. with Index.

LC#: not set

Categories: Psychotherapy, Mental Health, Psychology & Psychiatry; Social Work & Human Services

Web: http://www.HaworthPress.com/store/product.asp?sku=6167.

 

Chapters include:

• an overview of Borderline Personality Disorder

• confronting myths and stereotypes about BPD

• biological underpinnings of BPD

• BPD and the need for community—a social worker’s perspective on

• an evidence-based approach to managing suicidal behavior in BPD patients

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy

• supportive psychotherapy for borderline patients

• Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS)

• Mentalization-based Treatment

• fostering validating responses in families

• Family Connections: an education and skills training program for family member wellbeing

and much more!

Full of practical, useable

 

 

 

 

 

General Family Resources

Friedel, Robert O. (2004) Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified. Marlow & Co. New York, NY.

Gunderson, JG. & Hoffman, PD. (2005) Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families. American Psychiatric Press, Inc. Washington, DC 

Fusco, G.M., & Freeman, A. (2002). Borderline Personality Disorder: A Patient's Guide to Taking Control. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co.

Heller, L.M. (1999). Life at the Border: Understanding and Recovering from the Borderline Personality Disorder. Okeechobee, FL: Dyslimbia Press, Inc.

Lawson, C.A. (2000). Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Mason, P.T., and Kreger, R. (1998). Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back when Someone You Care about has Borderline Personality Disorder. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.

Paxton, L. (1999). Borderline and Beyond: A Program of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder. Cape Canaveral, FL: Bally Web, Inc.

Santoro, J., & Cohen, R. (1997). The Angry Heart: Overcoming Borderline and Addictive Disorders: An Interactive Self-Help Guide. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications. 

For Professionals

Handbook of Personality Disorders, Theory and Practice (Magnivita) Jeffrey J. PhD

Major Theories of Personality Disorders (Lenzenweger / Clarkin)

Personality Disorders in Children & Adolescents (Kernberg / Weiner / Bardenstein)

Self-Destructive Behaviors

Ellis, T.E., & Newman, C.F. (1996). Choosing to Live: How to Defeat Suicide Through Cognitive Therapy. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.

Strong, M. (1998). A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain. New York, NY: Viking Press.

Sutton, J. (1999). Healing the Hurt Within: Understand and Relieve the Suffering behind Self-Destructive Behavior. Oxford, England: Pathways, How to Books, Ltd.

Treatments

BPD—Latest Assessment & Treatment Strategies (Dean)

Shorter Term Treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder Preston)

Integrative Treatment Options for Borderline Personality Disorder (Preston)

Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and Development of the Self (Fonagy / Bateman )

Borderline Personality Disorder:  A Clinical Guide John G. Gunderson, M.D.

Practice Guideline for the Treatment Of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (Am. Psychiatric Assn., October 2001)

Borderline Personality Disorder: A Patient's Guide to Taking Control (Fusco, Freeman) Gina M. Fusco, Arthur Freeman

Linehan, M.M. (1993). Cognitive-behavioral treatment of borderline personality disorder. New York: Guilford Press.

Linehan, M.M. (1993). Skills training manual for treating borderline personality disorder. New York: Guilford Press.

Linehan, M.M. Heard, H.L. & Armstrong, HE. (1993). Naturalistic follow-up of a behavioral treatment for chronically parasuicidal borderline patients. Archives of General Psychiatry, 50, 971-974.

Yeomans FE, Clarkin JC, Kernberg OF. (2002). A Primer on Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Patients. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.

Fruzzetti, AE. & Linehan, MH. (foreward) (2006) The High Conflict couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, & Validation. New Harbinger Publications, Inc. Oakland, CA.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 



 

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