Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder

Grounded in proven-effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) principles, "Families and Borderline Personality Disorder" offers a practical, skills-oriented program for maintaining a healthy and balanced relationship with a family member suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD). The program was developed by DBT expert Alan Fruzzetti to help family members of people with BPD manage their emotions. Founded on the core principle of reciprocity, it helps family members take a blame-free approach to interacting with their loved one with BPD by encouraging readers to act in ways that reflect their own core values, shows readers how to validate the BPD sufferer in their life in order to help him or her to develop emotion regulation skills, and offers skills for drawing boundaries so that readers do not internalize blame, guilt, or a sense of responsibility for their loved one's actions and responses.