Posts Tagged ‘Families and BPD’
Working With Families & Young Adults With Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) – Part IV
Borderline Personality Disorder, Families and Solutions Parents of young adults with Borderline Personality Disorder, BPD Traits and Co-occurring Conditions are typically frustrated and feel helpless, even hopeless, about the possibility of change in their families by the time we see them here at OPI Living’s specialized OPI Intensive. Parents have endured so many years in…
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Borderline Personality Disorder, Families and Anxiety Management All of us have at our command a vast array of defense mechanisms to help us manage anxiety and frustration. We can talk about an issue and come to a reasonable conclusion or we can avoid it. We can blame a problem on someone else or rationalize it…
Read MoreWorking With Families & Young Adults With Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) – Part II
The Strategy of Compromise: Achieving the Most Favorable Outcome for Young Adults with BPD and their Families Why is it more difficult for young adults with Borderline Personality Traits or Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) to compromise and make decisions? There are many factors that may help explain it. Extreme Sensitivity Many believe that the nervous…
Read MoreWorking With Families & Young Adults With Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) – Part I
Compromise, The Middle Path And Psychotherapy How the MIDDLE PATH approach can assist with the treatment of those young adults with emotional dysregulation and their families. In a recent article in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Anthony Bateman found that well-structured general psychiatric management was as effective as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) on all…
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