Borderline Personality Disorder
Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment
Edited by Perry D. Hoffman, PhD
Book Description
This text is the most up-to-date resource for social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists - and can be useful to family members of someone affected by Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). This collection of chapters is written by two dozen of the leading experts in BPD. The book also offers a view of BPD from the perspective of sufferers as well as family members who are often devastated by their loved ones' struggles .Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment explores the latest methods and approaches to treating BPD patients and supporting their families. This useful text also features handy worksheets and numerous tables that present pertinent information clearly.
BPD lags far behind other disorders in terms of understanding. In reading this book you will understand better the debates about diagnosis, etiology, neurobiology, genetics, mediation, and treatment that still persist.
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Borderline Personality Disorder: An Overview -John G. Gunderson |
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Confronting Myths and Stereotypes About Borderline Personality Disorder -Richard Hersh |
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Biological Underpinnings of Borderline Personality Disorder - Marianne Goodman, Joseph Triebwasser, and Antonia New |
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BPD and the Need for Community: A Social Worker's Perspective - Maureen Smith |
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Borderline Personality Disorder and Hospitalization - Freda B. Friedman |
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Borderline Personality Disorder and Adolescence - Alec L. Miller, Deborah Neft, and Nira Golombeck |
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An Evidence-Based Approach to Managing Suicidal Behavior in Patients with BPD - Joel Paris |
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy - Cedar R. Koons |
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Combined Medication and Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder - S. Charles Schulz and Michael P. Rafferty |
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Supportive Psychotherapy for Borderline Patients - Ann H. Appelbaum |
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Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for BPD - Frank Yeomans and Jill Delaney |
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Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) for the Treatment of BPD - Nancee Blum and Donald W. Black |
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Mentalization-Based Treatment for BPD - Anthony W. Bateman and Peter Fonagy |
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In Their Own Words: Improving Services and Hopefulness for Families Dealing with BPD - Ellie Buteau, Kevin Dawkins, and Perry D. Hoffman |
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Fostering Validating Responses in Families - Alan E. Fruzzetti and Chad Shenk |
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Family Connections: An Education and Skills Training Program for Family Member Well Being: A Leader's: A Leader's Perspective - Dixianne Penney |
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Inhabited by a Cry: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder - Kiera Van Gelder |
About the Author
Perry D. Hoffman, PhD, is a co-founder and President of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD) A principal investigator nvestigator on several grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Hoffman conducts research with families who have a relative with BPD. She is co-course director Co-Course Director of the national and regional Family Perspectives Conferences as well as the co-creator Co-Creator of Family Connections, the 12-week psycho-education course for families that is available in many parts of the US and in several other countries. She is co-editor, with John G. Gunderson, of Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families and has directed numerous Dialectical Behavior Therapy programs. Dr. Hoffman is in private practice in the New York area and on the voluntary faculty of The Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Penny Steiner-Grossman, EdD, MPH, is Assistant Dean for Educational Resources and Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Social Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY. In addition to her administrative and teaching responsibilities, Dr. Steiner-Grossman has written extensively on the experience of illness, with the aim of using clear language to help patients and their providers understand chronic medical conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease, lupus, genetic diseases, and, more recently, psychiatric disorders. She was collaborator in the preparation of Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families.
# Paperback: 275 pages
# Publisher: The Haworth Press Inc; 1 edition (June 15, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0789032341
# ISBN-13: 978-0789032348 |
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