The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: Understanding Your Emotions, Managing Your Moods, and Forming Healthy Relationships

Author:   Déborah Ducasse ,  Véronique Brand-Arpon ,  Alison Duncan
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:  

9781421440323


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   10 August 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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This workbook provides individuals who are undergoing therapy for borderline personality disorder with the tools to help them evaluate their emotional state, develop strategies to manage their moods and increase tolerance to stress, and learn techniques that will enable them to form and maintain healthy relationships. When you have borderline personality disorder (BPD), your emotions are always very intense . . . Relationships with others are sources of suffering in your life . . . You may also make impulsive decisions that you later regret. Are you ready for help in improving your daily life? The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook provides you with a step-by-step therapeutic program that you can follow in the comfort of your home. You will learn the most effective, evidence-based strategies that will help you • regulate your emotions; • reduce your impulsivity; • improve your relationships with others; • create a positive environment in which to flourish Interactive, informative elements appear on virtually every page of this engaging book. A matrix is used throughout to help you document your emotional state and behaviors associated with distressing feelings, situations, and relationships. Vignettes about a fictional character, Candace, appear in every chapter to illustrate both adaptive and maladaptive responses in various scenarios. The book also incorporates principles from acceptance and commitment therapy, and quotations and key points help reinforce the lessons. Along with therapy, this book can help you overcome your everyday problems and live a life that has meaning for you.

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Author:   Déborah Ducasse ,  Véronique Brand-Arpon ,  Alison Duncan
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781421440323


ISBN 10:   1421440326
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   10 August 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

"Prologue How to Use This Book Chapter 1. Which Direction Do You Want to Go? What Do You Really Want to Do with Your Life? Chapter 2. What Is Borderline Personality Disorder? Chapter 3. How Does Borderline Personality Disorder Develop? Chapter 4. The Three States of Mind Chapter 5. The Three ""What"" Skills for Practicing Mindfulness Chapter 6. The Three ""How"" Skills for Living Mindfully Chapter 7. Everything You've Always Wanted to Know about Emotions Chapter 8. The Feeling of Emptiness Chapter 9. Effectively Regulating Emotions Chapter 10. Knowing How to Analyze Emotions Chapter 11. Becoming Less Hypersensitive to Emotions Chapter 12. Distress: What Is It? How Do We Cope with It? Chapter 13. Distress Tolerance Skills: Are They Really Beneficial? Chapter 14. What Is Dissociation? Chapter 15. Borderline Personality Disorder and Interpersonal Relationships Chapter 16. My Secure Relational Landscape Chapter 17. My Insecure Relational Landscape Chapter 18. Shame and Interpersonal Effectiveness Chapter 19. Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills Chapter 20. Acting Effectively in Difficult Interpersonal Situations Chapter 21. Creating a Positive Interpersonal Environment around You Chapter 22. Developing High-Quality Relationships Your Journey Continues Acknowledgments Notes"

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A top pick for borderline personality readers who would become more proactive and effective in their self-help and interaction approaches. -Donovan's Literary Services


A top pick for borderline personality readers who would become more proactive and effective in their self-help and interaction approaches. —Donovan's Literary Services


A top pick for borderline personality readers who would become more proactive and effective in their self-help and interaction approaches. * Donovan's Literary Services *


Author Information

Déborah Ducasse, MD, is a doctor and psychiatrist-psychotherapist. Véronique Brand-Arpon, MA, is a doctor of health biology and a nurse-psychotherapist. Together, Ducasse and Brand-Arpon created a dedicated center specializing in borderline personality disorder at the University Hospital of Montpellier. Translator and book editor Alison Duncan earned her master of science in translation from New York University and her bachelor of arts in French and Francophone studies from Vassar College. She is the translator of Marvelous Microfossils: Creators, Timekeepers, Architects.

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