Borderline personality disorder (BPD) frequently creates turmoil, dysfunction, and impairment in the lives of diagnosed people, as well as among their families, friends, and colleagues.
The disorder and lack of control that characterize BPD are, however, organized around consistent habits. The Taking Control Program presented by Fusco and Freeman targets these patterns, helping people understand, address, and, eventually, alter them for the better. Borderline Personality Disorder: A Patient’s Guide to Taking Control is your means to begin to take command of your life by following the therapeutic course described in these pages. Chapter by chapter, you will explore the nine basic patterns that typify BPD. Once you understand each of these patters, you will then assess the degree to which you exhibit any number of those patterns and learn various strategies that you can adopt to address those habits. The Patient’s Guide provides a step-by-step cognitive program rich in worksheets and exercises to facilitate your personal process of self-examination and problem solving. Fusco and Freeman offer those diagnosed with BPD, as well as their therapists, invaluable guidance in negotiating the pitfalls of BPD as you move ahead toward the prospect of retaking control over your life.
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Arthur Freeman, EdD, is chief psychologist and director of training at Sheridan Shores Care and Rehabilitation Center, Chicago. He lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Gina M. Fusco, Psy. D., is a licensed psychologist in Philadelphia. She is a System of Care Clinical Director for Alternative Behavioral Services, a comprehensive behavioral healthcare program for high-risk adolescents. She has led clinical diagnostic teams for juvenile detention centers, and has created several crisis intervention programs for psychiatric hospitals. She has authored and coauthored chapters on the treatment of crisis-prone patients, crisis intervention, and personality disorders. She lectures at The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia.
Gina M. Fusco, Psy. D., is a licensed psychologist in Philadelphia. She is a System of Care Clinical Director for Alternative Behavioral Services, a comprehensive behavioral healthcare program for high-risk adolescents. She has led clinical diagnostic teams for juvenile detention centers, and has created several crisis intervention programs for psychiatric hospitals. She has authored and coauthored chapters on the treatment of crisis-prone patients, crisis intervention, and personality disorders. She lectures at The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia.
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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Totally disappointing.,
This review is from: Borderline Personality Disorder: A Patient's Guide to Taking Control (Paperback)
The authors divide this workbook into chapters relating to each specific DSM diagnostic criterion for BPD. This is commendable and initially appealing and inviting. However,upon further examination,there is no substance to the preparatory reading material in any of the chapters. There is nothing unique in this workbook relating to specific issues of BPD. The very few cognitive distortions that are explained and dealt with are nothing that can't already be found in any of the available workbooks that deal with general issues of depression and anxiety. Moreover, my biggest contention with this volume is that the worksheets in each chapter are EXACTLY identical! There is absolutely no spontenaity or creativity on the part of the authors. Borderlines,who are especially prone to becoming bored easily, would find this workbook uninteresting,cumbersome,and tedious to work with.
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Borderline Personality Disorder: A Patient's Guide to Taking Control (Paperback)
However much this book might appeal to you, the schedules in the book are not to be done on one's own, which i found quite frustrating. the book reminds me of 'how to reinvent your life' by Young. Anyway if you want a self-help book, for as much as bpd can be self-managed, i suggest "the angry heart".
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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great resource,
This review is from: Borderline Personality Disorder: A Patient's Guide to Taking Control (Paperback)
This workbook is a great resource because it requires the borderline reader to internally work through the various issues associated with borderline personality disorder. The workbook addresses all of the main borderline characteristics used to define a borderline patient. However, if you have already spent a lot of time in therapy, as I have, it will not tell you anything you haven't already learned. At the same time, if your insurance won't cover the visits to therapists, etc., this is an EXCELLENT resource because it addresses all the things we addressed in group therapy.
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Perhaps at one time you felt or were told that you are depressed or maybe that you are the "anxious type." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
name some specific behaviors, goal obtaining goal, please indicate the danger, current chapter topic, symptoms that prevent, use relaxing imagery, above noted criteria, safe imagining, uncomfortable physical reactions, uncomfortable emotional responses, own emotional temperature, please indicate why, selected diagnosis, detail your experience, physical triggers, refuting statement, specific physical symptoms, prioritize the importance, change unrealistic, thoughts that seem, situational triggers, outcome prevent, several worksheets, accurate sample, distressful situations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Suggested Interventions, Guilford Press, Emotional Triggers, Behavioral Triggers, Date of Assessment, Patient Name, Referral Question, Incident People Physiological Emotions Cognitions, Emotion Adaptive, Schema Hoped-for Realistic, Schema Where, Situational Triggers There, Proof Supporting Belief, The Catastrophic Thinking Chart Situation Catastrophic, The Disputation Chart Situation, Time Situation Automatic, Behaviors Behaviors, Defining Yourself, Patient's Guide, Scale Back Pick, Stop Take, The Dichotomous Thinking Chart Black Gray, Avoiding Being Alone New!
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Perhaps at one time you felt or were told that you are depressed or maybe that you are the "anxious type." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
name some specific behaviors, goal obtaining goal, please indicate the danger, current chapter topic, symptoms that prevent, use relaxing imagery, above noted criteria, safe imagining, uncomfortable physical reactions, uncomfortable emotional responses, own emotional temperature, please indicate why, selected diagnosis, detail your experience, physical triggers, refuting statement, specific physical symptoms, prioritize the importance, change unrealistic, thoughts that seem, situational triggers, outcome prevent, several worksheets, accurate sample, distressful situations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Suggested Interventions, Guilford Press, Emotional Triggers, Behavioral Triggers, Date of Assessment, Patient Name, Referral Question, Incident People Physiological Emotions Cognitions, Emotion Adaptive, Schema Hoped-for Realistic, Schema Where, Situational Triggers There, Proof Supporting Belief, The Catastrophic Thinking Chart Situation Catastrophic, The Disputation Chart Situation, Time Situation Automatic, Behaviors Behaviors, Defining Yourself, Patient's Guide, Scale Back Pick, Stop Take, The Dichotomous Thinking Chart Black Gray, Avoiding Being Alone New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond by Judith S. Beck Phd on 10 pages
- Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders, Second Edition by Aaron T. Beck MD in Front Matter
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