One of the most overlooked things about helping a friend, family member or loved one with Borderline Personality Disorder is ...
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There is so much information out there on BPD and high emotional sensitivity and much of it is not actually helpful. Below are relevant articles, links to recommended reading, preferred providers, and agencies that I’ve found to be helpful for my clients.
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As a clinician, coach, parent or client you have probably bought numerous books in an effort to get the best information possible to help your client, self, or loved one.
But the amount of money and time spent doesn’t always yield the desired results.
Over my many years of working with families and clients who have endured trauma in some form or another and/ or who wrestle with intense emotional sensitivity. I’ve pared down my extensive library to those resources that I turn to over and over again.
Yes, there are many other good publications out there and I add to this list regularly and I encourage you to consume as much as is reasonably possible.
However, for the new therapist or new to DBT therapist, coaches, family and clients, anything from this list is going to be well worth the price.
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder, Mason and Kreger
Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook, Randi Kreger
Beyond Borderline: True Stories of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder, Gunderson and Hoffman
The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder: New Tools and Techniques to Stop Walking on Eggshells, Randi Kreger
Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Patterson, Grenny et al
The Mindful Path through Worry and Rumination: Letting Go of Anxious and Depressive Thoughts, Sameet Kumar
Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss, Sameet Kumar
It’s Not You, It’s What Happened to You: Complex Trauma and Treatment, Christine Courtois
Coping with BPD: DBT and CBT Skills to Soothe the Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder, Aguirre, Galen
The DBT Deck for Clients and Therapists: 101 Mindful Practices to Manage Distress, Regulate Emotions & Build Better Relationships, Lane Pederson
I Hate You–Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality, Jerold J. Kreisman
The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living with BPD, Chapman and Gratz
Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder: Relieve Your Suffering Using the Core Skill of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Blaise Aguirre
BPD from the Husband’s POV: The Roses and Rage of My Wife’s Borderline Personality Disorder (Roses and Rage BPD), Robert Page
Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change, Valerie Porr
Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents, 2nd Edition: What To Do When Your Teen Has BPD: A Complete Guide for Families, Blaise Aguirre
When Your Mother Has Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Adult Children, Daniel S. Lobel
When Your Daughter Has BPD: Essential Skills to Help Families Manage Borderline Personality Disorder, Daniel S. Lobel
The Uncontrollable Child: Understand and Manage Your Child’s Disruptive Moods with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills, Matis Miller
Positive Body Image Workbook: A Clinical and Self-Improvement Guide, Wood-Barcalow, Tylka, and Judge
Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, Bongiovanni and Jimerson
DBT Skills Training Manual, Marsha Linehan
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents, Miller, Rathus, and Linehan
Chain Analysis in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Shireen Rizvi
Doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Practical Guide, Kelly Koerner
Phone Coaching in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Alexander L. Chapman
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training with Adolescents: A Practical Workbook for Therapists, Teens & Parents, Jean Eich
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder, Mason and Kreger
Mentalization Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide, Bateman and Fonagy
Managing Therapy-Interfering Behavior: Strategies From Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Chapman and Rosenthal
DBT Skills in Schools: Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents, Mazza, Dexter-Mazza et al
The Skills Training Manual for Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide for Treating Disorders of Overcontrol, Thomas R. Lynch
Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Theory and Practice for Treating Disorders of Overcontrol, Thomas R. Lynch
The Uncontrollable Child: Understand and Manage Your Child’s Disruptive Moods with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills, Matis Miller
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation, Janina Fischer
Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families, Susan M. Johnson
Internal Family Systems Therapy, Richard C. Schwartz and Martha Sweezy
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology), Pat Ogden
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists, Boone, Steele, and van der Hart
Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory, Peter Levine
Attachment: 60 Trauma-Informed Assessment and Treatment Interventions Across the Lifespan, Christina Reese
Self-Therapy Workbook An Exercise Book for IFS Process, Bonnie J. Weiss
Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Substance Abuse, Anderson, Schwartz, and Sweezy
Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox: 125 Worksheets and Exercises to Treat Trauma & Stress, Mischke-Reeds
Easy Ego State Interventions: Strategies for Working With Parts, Robin Shapiro
Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy, Francine Shapiro
Helpful links
Addiction is a disease and can be treated. Individuals struggling with Substance Use Disorder deserve an environment where their illness is understood and recovery is fostered. And families absolutely have a role to play in guiding them towards that place.
Behavioral Tech, LLC, founded by Dr. Linehan, trains mental health care providers and treatment teams who work with complex and severely disordered populations to use compassionate, scientifically valid treatments and to implement and evaluate these treatments in their practice setting.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is a federal agency with a mission of facilitating recovery for people with or at risk for mental or substance use disorders. NREPP, SAMHSA’s national registry recognizes DBT to be an evidence based program in both it’s overall program and best practices.
NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. What started as a small group of families gathered around a kitchen table in 1979 has blossomed into the nation’s leading voice on mental health. Today, Nami is an association of hundreds of local affiliates, state organizations and volunteers who work in your community to raise awareness and provide support and education that was not previously available to those in need.
This website is in place to raise public awareness and promote research on borderline personality disorder as well as enhance the quality of life of those affected by this mental illness.
This information page is designed for the public and provides information about borderline personality disorder symptoms and treatment. The general public site for the National Institute of Mental Health can be found here.
Resources for those involved with individuals with BPD, including a link to a list of therapists and programs.
A website dedicated to dialectical behavior therapy.
Ohio Substance Abuse Recovery.
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