Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families. To get started finding Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families
Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families. To get started finding Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.