Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585621358 ISBN 13: 9781585621354

Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families is a concise, clearly written compendium aimed at reducing the confusion and isolation that confront families dealing with this disorder. Both scholarly and accessible to the lay reader, this work brings a balance of professional input and consumer and family experiences to provide much-needed information and encouragement. The 15 distinguished experts show that successful treatment is now a reality for families, discussing new epidemiological and pharmacological research, BPD in the context of trauma, and new treatments such as dialectical behavior therapy. However, the book also includes unique chapters on families and BPD, highlighting family perspectives, family support systems, and family involvement in treatment. At once highly instructive and eminently practical, this guidebook for patients, families, and professionals alike shows the progress that has been made in treatment and recovery. Above all, this groundbreaking book provides hope. It is an accessible must- read for BPD patients and their families and friends, and a valuable update for all mental health professionals.

About this title

About the Author

John G. Gunderson, M.D., is Director of the Center for Treatment and Research on Borderline Personality Disorder at McClean Hospital in Belmont Massachusetts. He is also Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Perry D. Hoffman, Ph.D., is President of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder and Research Associate at Weill Medical College at Cornell University in New York, New York.

From the Back Cover

Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families is a concise, clearly written, and eminently practical text. It offers both a valuable update for mental health professionals and much-needed information and encouragement for BPD patients and their families and friends. The chapters on families give voice to the experience of BPD and offer the hope that family involvement in treatment will be beneficial to everyone.

Both scholarly and accessible to the lay reader, this work brings together the wide-ranging and updated perspectives of 15 recognized experts. These authors present a new understanding BPD, suggesting that genetic factors and certain stressful events may combine to trigger its onset; new evidence supporting the benefits of specific medications and the success of various forms of psychotherapy, including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT); and new resources for families to help them deal with the dysregulated emotions of their loved ones with BPD and build effective support systems for themselves.

Above all, this book is about the partnership between mental health professionals and families affected by BPD, and about how such a partnership can advance our understanding and treatment of this disorder and provide hope for the future.

From the Inside Flap

Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families is a concise, clearly written, and eminently practical text. It offers both a valuable update for mental health professionals and much-needed information and encouragement for BPD patients and their families and friends. The chapters on families give voice to the experience of BPD and offer the hope that family involvement in treatment will be beneficial to everyone.

Both scholarly and accessible to the lay reader, this work brings together the wide-ranging and updated perspectives of 15 recognized experts. These authors present a new understanding BPD, suggesting that genetic factors and certain stressful events may combine to trigger its onset; new evidence supporting the benefits of specific medications and the success of various forms of psychotherapy, including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT); and new resources for families to help them deal with the dysregulated emotions of their loved ones with BPD and build effective support systems for themselves.

Above all, this book is about the partnership between mental health professionals and families affected by BPD, and about how such a partnership can advance our understanding and treatment of this disorder and provide hope for the future.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585621358
• ISBN 13: 9781585621354
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Gunderson John G., Hoffman PhD Perry D.