Understanding your Borderline Personality Disorder: A Workbook (The Wiley Series in Psychoeducation) - Softcover

Healy, Chris

 
9780470986554: Understanding your Borderline Personality Disorder: A Workbook (The Wiley Series in Psychoeducation)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0470986557 ISBN 13: 9780470986554
Publisher: Wiley, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Chris Healy is a mental health staff nurse with more than a decade’s experience of working with mentally ill offenders. She is the author of Understanding Your Schizophrenia Illness: A Workbook (Wiley, 2007).

From the Back Cover

A diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder can be a difficult and frightening experience for both the sufferer and those who care for them. It is therefore very important that sufferers and their carers are provided with clear and accessible information about the disorder and what the diagnosis may mean for them.

Understanding Your Borderline Personality Disorder: A Workbook provides a structured framework for healthcare professionals to use with those diagnosed with the disorder. The workbook covers diagnosis, treatment options and relapse prevention, as well as providing interactive opportunities to explore and discuss different symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder. It presents alternative coping strategies that are designed to work alongside talking and pharmacological therapies. Understanding Your Borderline Personality Disorder: A Workbook also contains frequently-asked questions sections, case studies and assessment questionnaires, providing practitioners with a complete psychoeducational resource.

An invaluable tool for all those working with Borderline Personality Disorder sufferers, this workbook will help to promote the therapeutic relationship between professional and client, and will be welcomed by psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and mental health workers.

From the Inside Flap

A diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder can be a difficult and frightening experience for both the sufferer and those who care for them. It is therefore very important that sufferers and their carers are provided with clear and accessible information about the disorder and what the diagnosis may mean for them.

Understanding Your Borderline Personality Disorder: A Workbook provides a structured framework for healthcare professionals to use with those diagnosed with the disorder. The workbook covers diagnosis, treatment options and relapse prevention, as well as providing interactive opportunities to explore and discuss different symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder. It presents alternative coping strategies that are designed to work alongside talking and pharmacological therapies. Understanding Your Borderline Personality Disorder: A Workbook also contains frequently-asked questions sections, case studies and assessment questionnaires, providing practitioners with a complete psychoeducational resource.

An invaluable tool for all those working with Borderline Personality Disorder sufferers, this workbook will help to promote the therapeutic relationship between professional and client, and will be welcomed by psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and mental health workers.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Wiley
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0470986557
ISBN 13 
9780470986554
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
208