Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Coping When Your Adolescent has BPD
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 hospitals in the nation and a teaching facility for Harvard Medical School. Dr. Aguirre describes recent advances in treatments and brings into focus what we do and donÆt know about this condition. He explains the most advanced techniques available, including the revolutionary new treatment called dialectic behavior therapy.

Readers will learn the differences between BPD and other adolescent psychiatric diagnoses; treatment options (e.g., medication and therapy); how to choose the right therapist; how to determine when inpatient treatment is necessary; how to enforce boundaries; how to take care of and protect yourself; and practical techniques for effective communication with those who have BPD.

  • There is no other adolescent borderline personality book in the general trade book marketûonly BPD books focused on adults
  • U.S. News and World Report consistently ranks McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., as the nationÆs top psychiatric facility in the country. McLean is the largest psychiatric clinical care, teaching, and research facility of Harvard Medical School.
  • With the recent development in diagnostic techniques and treatments, thousands of teens are discovering they have borderline personality disorder.
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Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Coping When Your Adolescent has BPD
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 hospitals in the nation and a teaching facility for Harvard Medical School. Dr. Aguirre describes recent advances in treatments and brings into focus what we do and donÆt know about this condition. He explains the most advanced techniques available, including the revolutionary new treatment called dialectic behavior therapy.

Readers will learn the differences between BPD and other adolescent psychiatric diagnoses; treatment options (e.g., medication and therapy); how to choose the right therapist; how to determine when inpatient treatment is necessary; how to enforce boundaries; how to take care of and protect yourself; and practical techniques for effective communication with those who have BPD.

  • There is no other adolescent borderline personality book in the general trade book marketûonly BPD books focused on adults
  • U.S. News and World Report consistently ranks McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., as the nationÆs top psychiatric facility in the country. McLean is the largest psychiatric clinical care, teaching, and research facility of Harvard Medical School.
  • With the recent development in diagnostic techniques and treatments, thousands of teens are discovering they have borderline personality disorder.
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Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Coping When Your Adolescent has BPD

Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Coping When Your Adolescent has BPD

by Blaise A Aguirre
Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Coping When Your Adolescent has BPD

Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Coping When Your Adolescent has BPD

by Blaise A Aguirre

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Overview

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 hospitals in the nation and a teaching facility for Harvard Medical School. Dr. Aguirre describes recent advances in treatments and brings into focus what we do and donÆt know about this condition. He explains the most advanced techniques available, including the revolutionary new treatment called dialectic behavior therapy.

Readers will learn the differences between BPD and other adolescent psychiatric diagnoses; treatment options (e.g., medication and therapy); how to choose the right therapist; how to determine when inpatient treatment is necessary; how to enforce boundaries; how to take care of and protect yourself; and practical techniques for effective communication with those who have BPD.

  • There is no other adolescent borderline personality book in the general trade book marketûonly BPD books focused on adults
  • U.S. News and World Report consistently ranks McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., as the nationÆs top psychiatric facility in the country. McLean is the largest psychiatric clinical care, teaching, and research facility of Harvard Medical School.
  • With the recent development in diagnostic techniques and treatments, thousands of teens are discovering they have borderline personality disorder.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781616734299
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
Publication date: 11/01/2007
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Blaise Aguirre, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist and clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard University School of Medicine. He has been a staff psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA, since 2000, and has been recognized for his work in the treatment of BPD in adolescence. In May 2007, he was named director of the newly opened Adolescent Dialectic Behavior Therapy Treatment Center at McLean -- targeted specifically at treating adolescents with BPD.

Table of Contents


Foreword     9
Introduction     11
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?     15
How to Diagnose BPD in Adolescents     31
The Typically Developing Adolescent     51
How to Stop BPD Teens from "Manipulating" Others     69
Discovering the Many Causes of BPD     81
The Research Behind BPD Adolescent Behavior and Thought Processes     115
What to Do When BPD Isn't Your Child's Only Psychiatric Disorder     129
The Challenge of Finding Treatment     143
The New Way to Treat BPD     151
Other Psychotherapies that May Help Teens with BPD     169
Does Medication Help Adolescents with BPD?     185
Understanding BPD Through Stories from Patients, Parents, and Health Care Professionals     201
BPD and Adoption     223
The Future of Today's BPD Teens     233
The History of BPD     240
Resources     244
Glossary     255
Bibliography     259
Acknowledgments     279
About the Author     281
Index     282
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