The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorderby Randi Kreger, Paul Mason |
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- Title:
The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder
- Reading Level: Kindle Edition
- Binding: Kindle Edition
- No. of Pages: 299
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- Publisher: Hazelden
- Pub. Date: 2009-06-03
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The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder Review
Source: Product Description"Randi Kreger has done it again! With her new book, she continues to make the dynamics of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) readily accessible to those of us who love, live with and treat people who suffer from this complex condition." --Blaise Aguirre, MD, Medical Director, Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy Residential Program, McLean Hospital"Kreger's communication techniques, grounded in the latest research, provide family members with the essential ability to regain a genuine, meaningful relationship with their loved one with Borderline Personality Disorder." --Debra Resnick, Psy.D., President, Psychological Services and Human Development Center "This book offers hope for those who think their situation has none." --Rachel Reiland, author of Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality DisorderFor family members of people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), home life is routinely unpredictable and frequently unbearable. Extreme mood swings, impulsive behaviors, unfair blaming and criticism, and suicidal tendencies are common conduct among those who suffer from the disorder and leave family members feeling confused, hurt, and helpless.In Stop Walking on Eggshells, Randi Kreger's pioneering first book which sold more than 340,000 copies, she and co-author Paul T. Mason outlined the fundamental differences in the way that people with BPD relate to the world. Now, with The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder, Kreger takes readers to the next level by offering them five straight forward tools to organize their thinking, learn specific skills, and focus on what they need to do to get off the emotional rollercoaster: * Take care of yourself * Uncover what keeps you feeling stuck * Communicate to be heard * Set limits with love * Reinforce the right behaviors Together the steps provide a clear-cut system designed to help friends and family reduce stress, improve their relationship with their borderline loved one, improve their problem-solving skills and minimize conflict, and feel more self-assured about setting limits.
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