Overcoming borderline personality disorder: a family guide for healing and change

Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder is a compassionate and informativeguide to understanding this profoundly unsettling--and widely misunderstood--mental illness, believed to affect approximately 6% of the general population.Offering families and loved ones supportive guidance that both acknowledges the difficulties they face and shows how they can be overcome, Porr teaches empirically-supported and effective coping behaviors and interpersonal skills, such as new ways of talking about emotions. INDICE: Introduction; Foreword; 1: A Voice for the Voiceless: Validating Families of People with BPD; 2: The Juggler: Reframing BPD - An Overview of Neurobiology of the Disorder; 3: How Do You Change Behavior; 4: Validation: Talking to the Amygdala; 5: How to Speak Emotion: What are Emotions - Learning the Language of BPD; 6: Radical Acceptance and Grieving; 7: Understanding DBT; 8: Mindfulness and DBT Coping Skills; 9: Is DBT enough? Understanding Mentalization; 10: Putting it All Together: How to Do the DBT Dance; 11: Collaboratingfor Change: What Clinicians Need to Know; 12: Advocacy; References

• ISBN: 978-0-19-537958-7
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 26/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés