[.ca] Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline ... (ISBN 0898620341)

Highly helpful for high functioning, motivated borderlines:
This manual is highly effective for treating higher intellectually functioning and reasonably motivated borderlines. The handouts are especially helpful and they help to present the treatment in methods presentable to many clients (although I have found some borderlines become overly dependent on the handouts and conversely develop compulsions and obsessions centered around their DBT handouts and journals). I work in a residential treatment facility for SPMI (all clients also have at least one Axis I diagnosis), and most of our clients have too low intellectual functioning to grasp many of the DBT concepts. I especially enjoy the Zen focus of Linehan's DBT.

The book all people with BPD and their treaters should read:
OK, so I read The Siren's Dance: My marriage to a Borderline, about a doc who has a BPD wife and he gets no therapy, nor does she, or if so, not good therapy. Guess what? The marriage DOES NOT WORK. In my situation, I was quite hopeless, because my wife had tried all types of medications, and therapy. Little worked until she started DBT, in individual work and in group. I also started therapy. Our marriage will survive, and my kids are more at ease. My wife's therapist says this is the book to use. It helped us for sure.

Excellent:
I'm the webowner of BPD Today and this is the "handbook" someone would bring to their dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) sessions as this form of therapy has shown in studies to help some folks with BPD. The material alone is excellent and one can get a lot of help with this very painful disorder. Every home with BPD should have it.

Excellent Book:
After struggling for many years with borderline and depression. I was introduced to this book. It has been a life saver. I finally have found something I can connect with. It is an easy read. I gives me the skills I never knew existed. I would recommend this book to anyone with borderline or anyone who wants to help someone with bodreline.

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Looks like 'a reader from Mesa, AZ'- needs to utilize "non-judgemental stance" a little more effectively. ; p