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WEB 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, provides information on trainings
NEA-BPD Family Connections Classes: www.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.com
The Director is Perry Hoffman. This website also provides audio and video trainings and presentations about
DBT and other treatments.
TARA Treatment and Research Advancement: National Association for Personality Disorder: DBT Family
Workshops: www.tara4bpd.org. The Director is Valerie Porr.
BOOKS FOR PARENTS AND FAMILY MEMBERS
Aguirre, Blaise (2007) Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents, Beverlyu, MA: Fair Winds Press
Amador, Xavier (2000) I am Not Sick, I don’t need help, New York: Vida Press
Brach, Tara (2003) Radical Acceptance, New York: Bantam Books
Brantley, Jeffrey (2007) Calming Your Anxious Mind, Oakland, CA: New Harbinger
Hanh, Thich Nhat (1991) Peace is Every Step, New York: Bantam Books
Friedel, Robert, Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified, New York: Marlow and Co.
Hornbacher, Marya (2008), Madness: A BiPolar Life, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company
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
Karp, David (2001) The Burden of Sympathy, New York: Oxford University Press
Kreger, Randi (2008) The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder Center City, Minn:
Hazelden
*Manning, Shari. (2011) Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder, Guildford Press
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
Porr, Valerie (2010) Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change,
New York: Oxford Press
Raeburn, Paul (2004) Acquainted with the Night, New York: Broadway Books
Simon, Clea (1997) Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings, New York: Penguin Books
Spradlin, Scott (2003) Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life, Oakland, California: New Harbinger
Publications
Van Gelder, Kiera, The Buddha and the Borderline, Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications
Wagner and Spiro (2005) Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia, New York:
St Martins Griffin
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, provides information on trainings
NEA-BPD Family Connections Classes: www.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.com
The Director is Perry Hoffman. This website also provides audio and video trainings and presentations about
DBT and other treatments.
TARA Treatment and Research Advancement: National Association for Personality Disorder: DBT Family
Workshops: www.tara4bpd.org. The Director is Valerie Porr.
BOOKS FOR PARENTS AND FAMILY MEMBERS
Aguirre, Blaise (2007) Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents, Beverlyu, MA: Fair Winds Press
Amador, Xavier (2000) I am Not Sick, I don’t need help, New York: Vida Press
Brach, Tara (2003) Radical Acceptance, New York: Bantam Books
Brantley, Jeffrey (2007) Calming Your Anxious Mind, Oakland, CA: New Harbinger
Hanh, Thich Nhat (1991) Peace is Every Step, New York: Bantam Books
Friedel, Robert, Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified, New York: Marlow and Co.
Hornbacher, Marya (2008), Madness: A BiPolar Life, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company
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
Karp, David (2001) The Burden of Sympathy, New York: Oxford University Press
Kreger, Randi (2008) The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder Center City, Minn:
Hazelden
*Manning, Shari. (2011) Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder, Guildford Press
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
Porr, Valerie (2010) Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change,
New York: Oxford Press
Raeburn, Paul (2004) Acquainted with the Night, New York: Broadway Books
Simon, Clea (1997) Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings, New York: Penguin Books
Spradlin, Scott (2003) Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life, Oakland, California: New Harbinger
Publications
Van Gelder, Kiera, The Buddha and the Borderline, Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications
Wagner and Spiro (2005) Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia, New York:
St Martins Griffin
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