The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder
by Kreger, RandiEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-10-15
Publisher(s): Hazelden
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Summary
Gentle counsel and realistic advice for families contending with one of todays most misunderstood forms of mental illness.
Author Biography
Randi Kreger is coauthor of the groundbreaking bestseller Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder (over 350,000 copies sold), and author of the Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook: Practical Strategies for Living With Someone Who Has Borderline Personality Disorder. These two books, which have been translated into seven different languages, have brought the concerns of family members with a borderline loved one to the international forefront. Kreger's website, BPDCentral.com, is one of the largest and longest-established sites about Borderline Personality Disorder on the web. Kreger is cofounder of the Personality Disorder Awareness Network and maintains Welcome to Oz, an online support group for family members of those with BPD. She gives presentations internationally to both laypeople and clinicians.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| About This Book | p. 1 |
| The ABCs of BPD | |
| Welcome to Oz | p. 7 |
| Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder | p. 23 |
| Making Sense of Your Relationship | p. 49 |
| Risk Factors of BPD | p. 67 |
| Treating BPD | p. 79 |
| Finding Professional Help | p. 97 |
| Power Tools | |
| About Power Tools | p. 125 |
| Power Tool 1: Take Good Care of Yourself | p. 129 |
| Power Tool 2: Uncover What Keeps You Feeling Stuck | p. 147 |
| Power Tool 3: Communicate to Be Heard | p. 163 |
| Power Tool 4: Set Limits with Love | p. 195 |
| Power Tool 5: Reinforce the Right Behavior | p. 227 |
| Conclusion: Start Today | p. 241 |
| Resources | p. 243 |
| Notes | p. 255 |
| Index | p. 267 |
| About the Author | p. 275 |
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