Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder A Guide for Professionals and Families
Produktdetaljer
This impressive book is quite successful in clearly communicating information to a diverse audience on a complex disorder. It is a one of a kind source that provides an extensive amount of information for professionals and lay persons in a unique and manageable form by blending personal experiences with current psychiatric understanding. It will be a valuable resource for family members, patients, and healthcare professionals alike. Marie A. Dewitt, M.D., Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal [U]nderstanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder is one of the most complete and responsibly written books I have found on any mental illness. I recommend it without reservation to anyone who needs a comprehensive introduction to what is known-and not known-about BPD. David A. Flory, Metapsychology Online Book Reviews The intent of this volume on borderline personality disorder (BPD) is laudable: it seeks to offer professionals and families information and education to reduce the confusion about the disorder. Such a guide is badly needed... There is clearly a niche for a readable text that explains BPD in ways that are helpful to families and parents. This volume begins to fill this niche and should help reduce false impressions, stigmatization of the disorder, and the blame heaped on patients and their families. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry Sample cases, plain-terms discussions and definitions, and a highly accessible style and format make Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder immediately comprehensible to readers of all backgrounds. Highly recommended for anyone whose family or professional life places them in contact with or makes them responsible for borderline patients. Midwest Book Review
Families, friends, and caregivers of people with borderline personality disorder have long been neglected by mental health professionals. Blamed, censured, stigmatized, they have been relegated to the anteroom of treatment, rarely being considered as a positive force to be harnessed for effective intervention. This book, taking its inspiration from a conference of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder, represents a turning point. Whilst there are many books on borderline personality disorder, this is the only one to consider fully the perspectives of both the family and professionals. The professionals cover basic theoretical approaches to the disorder and outline treatment methods and the consumers, the real experts, give their own compelling accounts of living with a loved one with a borderline disorder. Their point is clear. Involving families in treatment resurrects hope from despair and, far from making matters worse, is likely to improve treatment outcomes and maintain constructive family involvement. This book tells how it should be done and should be on the desk of all professionals treating patients with borderline personality disorder. It is a convincing reminder that families should not be relegated to the waiting room but positively encouraged to engage with the treatment process.