School Talk for BPD Awareness Month in Canada: Borderline What? 500 adolescents in attendance. Watch the video of Dr Blaise Aquirre
Borderline What? On May 11, 2012, for BPD awareness month, in collaboration with Blaise Aguirre from McLean Hospital, CAMH and NEABPD, the parents of Sasha Courey Menu, a young gilr who committed suicide last June 16th, launched their School Talks on BPDin Canada. ...
New York State Office of Mental Health awards NEABPD 2012 MHANYS Local Mini-grant
Grant awarded to support Family Connections Leader Training in the State of New York. Award to start July 1st. Target community is the families of suicide attempters. Details to follow.
New Name for Borderline Personality Disorder: Marsha Linehan calls it emotion regulation disorder. What do you think? Share your thoughts on the NEABPD Facebook page
Share your thoughts on the neabpd Facebook page or send an email to info@neabpd.org and tell us what you think of the name and why. Also, alternative ideas?
Awareness Event: Grace F. Napolitano Champion for Mental Health visits with NEABPD Board Members
Details and video to follow Cherly Kempinsky Ph.D. and Donna Shields, MSW interview Congresswoman Napolitano. Action initatives from the meeting will also be posted.
From APA: Mary Zanarini’s study shows social and work skills key to recovery; Andrew Skodol, MD Chairman of DSM 5 Task Force reports all personality disorders will be on Axis I.
Dr Zanarin's Key Points from her study (Psychiatric News, May 4, 2012): "1. Remission for symptoms is common for patients with borderline personality disorder but full recovery including good social and vocational functioning is less so. 2. Patients with BPD however...
MAY IS BPD AWARENESS MONTH. JOIN NEABPD’s SYMBOL OF HOPE and WEAR A LADYBUG PIN. SHARE YOUR WAY OF SUPPORTING AWARENESS. READ WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING
NEABPD invites you to share with the BPD community your way of supporting BPD Awareness. Please send an email to info@neabpd.org Subject: Awareness. In the message, write what you are doing for awareness. Also, go to...
Mary Zanarini, Ed.D. awarded the 2012 Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Personality Disorders
Dr Zanarini is Professor, Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital. Dr. Zanarini will be honored at the 165th Annual Conference of the American Psychiatric Association Convention in Philadelphia in May by the Borderline Personality Disorder Resource Center....
Mindfulness Series: Blaise Aguirre, MD and Gillian Galen, Psy.D. Sunday Four-Part Call-in Series. Listen to the recordings of the first two calls.
15-Apr-12-mindfulnessIn this two-part series, Drs. Aguirre and Galen gave an overview of mindfulness and how it can be useful for people with BPD and their loved one. Although they drew mainly on mindfulness practices in DBT, they also integrated non-DBT practices...
JOIN THE DIALOGUE: CONNECTING THE DOTS DISCUSSION BOARD
Share your thoughts and questions on this first of the series “Connecting the Dots.” The Beginning, recorded on March 25th, is the kickoff of the conversational hour hosted by Charlie Swenson and Kelly Koerner. Join their dialogue by posting a comment for further...
NEABPD New Zealand to launch 10 Family Connections Groups
Dr Alan Fruzzetti completed the weekend training for Family Connections leaders in New Zealand. Ten groups will be launched in the coming months. Thanks to the effort of Roy Kravitz, MD Family Connections will begin to service families across the country of New...
Recent Comments