Resources
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND FAMILY MEMBERS

National Alliance on Mental Illness (www.NAMI.org): Family-to-Family Programs; peer-
to-peer programs, In Our Own Voices (personal stories that help build awareness of
mental illness),
support groups for family members and consumers, and advocacy.

BehavioralTech.org – DBT official website

NEA-BPD Family Connections Classes:  http://www.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.com/
The Director is Perry Hoffman.

TARA Treatment and Research Advancement: National Association for Personality
Disorder: DBT Family Workshops: http://www.tara4bpd.org/dyn/index.php The
Director is Valerie Porr.

BOOKS FOR PARENTS AND FAMILY MEMBERS

Amador, Xavier I am Not Sick, I don’t need help

Brach, Tara (2003)
Radical Acceptance, New York: Bantam Books

Hanh, Thich Nhat (1991)
Peace is Every Step, New York: Bantam Books

Jamison, K.
(1995) An Unquiet Mind, New York: Random House

Kundtz, D. (2000)
Quiet Mind, Canada: Conari Press

Kabat-Zinn, Jon (1994)
Wherever you go There you are, New York: Hyperion

Mason and Kreger (1998)
Stop Walking on Eggshells, Oakland, California: New
Harbinger Publications


Moorman, Margaret (1992)
My Sister's Keeper, New York: W.W. Norton and Co.

McKay, Wood and Brantley (2007)
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook,
Oakland, California: New Harbinger Publications

Raeburn, Paul (2004)
Acquainted with the Night, New York: Broadway Books

Spradlin, Scoot (2003)
Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life, Oakland, California: New
Harbinger Publications