Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Coping When Your Adolescent Has BPD
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Borderline Personality Disorder and Adolescents offers parents, caregivers, and adolescents themselves a complete understanding of this complex and tough-to-treat disorder. It thoroughly explains what it is and what a patientÆs treatment options are. Author Blaise A. Aguirre, M.D., is one of the foremost experts in the field and was named head of the Adolescent Dialectic Behavior Therapy Treatment Center at McLean Hospital, one of the most prestigious psychiatric h… More >>
This is a well-written and compassionate book about treating adolescents with borderline personality disorder. Fortunately, I am not the parent of a borderline child, but my mother has BPD and the symptoms are the same; she behaves like some of the teenagers in this book!
Dr. Aquirre describes the characteristics of BPD clearly and concisely and explains the treatment options available. He has tremendous sympathy for parents and family members of these disturbed children and it’s worth reading this book for the feeling of emotional validation alone. As the child of a borderline parent, I feel that parents should try their hardest to make sure their teenagers don’t carry carry this terrible personality disorder into adulthood.
Rating: 5 / 5
I am so grateful for Dr. Aguirre’s extensive research that went into this book. There is so little on the subject as relates to adolescents, and this is such an important work. I highly recommend it almost daily in my coaching practice.
Tami Green
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Rating: 5 / 5
Finding any valid information on BPD in adolescents is close to impossible. We have a 15-yo daughter in a therapeutic boarding school after trying every outpatient treatment available. While our daughter has not engaged in any serious external behaviors, she has lived the last years in a constant state of dysphoria and wild attention-seeking schemes. She’s was diagnosed with bi-polar w/psychosis when she was 12 and has since been diagnosed w/BPD as well. Dr. Aguierre’s experience in treating adolescents w/BPD provides not only a valid perspective, it also gives very practical advise. This is a must read book!
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is right on the money. I was growing so tired of telling psych professionals, “no….my daughter is not bi-polar”. Now I know that they are scared of the taboo of BPD. Now I know how my daughters thoughts and emotions work. Now I know that other people have it harder than I do, SO FAR. This book opened my eyes to a lot. I don’t know yet if it will help my little girl, but it has already helped me.
Rating: 5 / 5
As a child psychologist, I get very tired of the neo-Freudian mumbo-jumbo that is often associated with this diagnosis. Not only is such an approach not not very effective, but you have to buy all sorts of (ahem) crapola to even start in on it.
This book is a real relief. When I got it I assumed it was just more Freudian malarky, but it isn’t. Very CBT and DBT oriented, at least in practice, and I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5
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