Borderline Personality Disorder ─ Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment

Explore and understand new approaches in Borderline therapy.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) lags far behind other disorders such as schizophrenia in terms of research and treatment interventions. Debates about diagnosis, etiology, neurobiology, genetics, medication, and treatment still persist. Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment brings together over two dozen of the field’s leading experts in one enlightening text. The book also offers mental health providers a view of BPD from the perspectives of sufferers as well as family members to foster an understanding of the experiences of relatives who are often devastated by their loved ones’ struggles with this common disorder.
Although there has been an increasing interest in BPD in terms of research funding, treatment advancement, and acknowledgment of family perspective over the last decade, the fact remains that the disorder is still highly stigmatized. Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment provides social workers and other mental health clinicians with practical access to the knowledge necessary for effective treatment in a single volume of the most current research, information, and management considerations. This important collection 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.
Chapters in Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment include:

an overview of Borderline Personality Disorder
confronting myths and stereotypes about BPD
biological underpinnings of BPD
BPD and the need for community - a social worker’s perspective on
an evidence-based approach to managing suicidal behavior in BPD patients
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
supportive psychotherapy for borderline patients
Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS)
Mentalization-based Treatment
fostering validating responses in families
Family Connections: an education and skills training program for family member wellbeing
and much more!
Full of practical, useable ideas for the betterment of those affected by BPD, Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment is a valuable resource for social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and counselors, as well as students, researchers, and academics in the mental health field, family members, loved ones, and anyone directly affected by BPD.

About the Guest Editors. About the Contributors. Hoffman, Steiner-Grossman, Introduction. Gunderson, Borderline Personality Disorder: An Overview. Hersh, Confronting Myths and Stereotypes About Borderline Personality Disorder. Goodman, Triebwasser, New, Biological Underpinnings of Borderline Personality Disorder. Case Study: The Case of Joan. Smith, BPD and the Need for Community: A Social Worker’s Perspective. Friedman, Borderline Personality Disorder and Hospitalization. Miller, Neft, Golombeck, Borderline Personality Disorder and Adolescence. Paris, An Evidence-based Approach to Managing Suicidal Behavior in Patients with BPD. Koons, Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Schulz, Rafferty, Combined Medication and Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder. Appelbaum, Supportive Psychotherapy for Borderline Patients. Yeomans, Delaney, Transference-focused Psychotherapy for BPD. Blum, Black, Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) for the Treatment of BPD. Bateman, Fonagy, Mentalization-based Treatment for BPD. Buteau, Dawkins, Hoffman, In Their Own Words: Improving Services and Hopefulness for Families Dealing with BPD. Fruzzetti, Shenk, Fostering Validating Responses in Families. Penney, Family Connections: An Education and Skills Training Program for Family Member Well Being: A Leader’s Perspective. Van Gelder, Inhabited by a Cry: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder. Index. Reference Notes Included.