Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: a Complete Guide to Understanding and Coping When Your Adolescent Has BPD. Blaise Aguirre, $22.50

Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents offers parents, caregivers, and adolescents themselves a complete understanding of this complex and tough-to-treat disorder. Dr. Aguirre describes recent advancements in treatments and brings into focus what we do and don’t know about this condition. Readers will learn the differences between BPD and other adolescent psychiatric diagnoses; treatment options; how to choose the right therapist; how to determine when inpatient treatment is necessary; how to enforce boundaries; how to take care of and protect yourself; and practical techniques for effective communication with those who have BPD.

Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents: Theory and Clinical Interventions. Edited by Sandra Wieland, $79.50

Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents is a groundbreaking text for the study of dissociation in young people. Eight unique and compelling case studies present many aspects of working with traumatized children who dissociate — trauma processing, attachment work, work with the family, interactions with the community — and give frank analysis of the difficulties clinicians encounter in various therapeutic situations and how and why they arrived at particular therapeutic decisions. While the book includes intensive analysis of each author’s theoretical framework as well as that of dissociation in general, it also shows clinicians, in the most practical terms, how to translate the theories of dissociation into action.

I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality, Revised Edition. Jerold Kressman & Hal Strauss, $18.50

This completely revised and updated edition includes information on the genetic and developmental roots of BPD. It also explores the connections between BPD and substance abuse, sexual abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, ADHD and eating disorders — making it a vital reference for understanding and living with Borderline Personality Disorder.

Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Bill Eddy & Randi Kreger, $19.99

Divorce is difficult under the best of circumstances. When your spouse has borderline personality disorder (BPD), narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), or is manipulative, divorcing can be especially complicated. While people with these tendencies may initially appear convincing and even charming to lawyers and judges, you know better — many of these "persuasive blamers" leverage false accusations, attempt to manipulate others, launch verbal and physical attacks, and do everything they can to get their way.

SPLITTING is your legal and psychological guide to safely navigating a high-conflict divorce from an unpredictable spouse. Written by Bill Eddy, a family lawyer, therapist, and divorce mediator, and Randi Kreger, coauthor of the BPD classic STOP WALKING ON EGGSHELLS, this book includes all of the critical information you need to work through the process of divorce in an emotionally balanced, productive way.

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder, 2nd Edition. Paul Mason & Randi Kreger, $25.95

Stop Walking on Eggshells has already helped nearly half a million people with friends and family members suffering from BPD understand this destructive disorder, set boundaries, and help their loved ones stop relying on dangerous BPD behaviors. This fully revised edition has been updated with the very latest BPD research and includes coping and communication skills you can use to stabilize your relationship with the BPD sufferer in your life.

The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook: Practical Strategies for Living with Someone Who Has Borderline Personality Disorder. Randi Kreger, $29.95

Stronger than BPD: the Girl's Guide to Taking Control of Intense Emotions, Drama & Chaos Using DBT. Debbie Corso, $23.95

If you have BPD, you may experience extreme emotional ups and downs. These intense feelings can make navigating everyday life that much more difficult, and as a result, you may have trouble maintaining relationships, seeing yourself clearly, or reaching career goals. You should know that you are not alone, and that BPD isn’t your fault. Most importantly, you need to know that you are strong. With the right tools, you can overcome the symptoms of your BPD — this book will show you how.

Written by a BPD survivor and advocate, Stronger Than BPD offers practical, evidence-based dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to help you manage the intense emotions and negative self-image that can occur with BPD. This easy-to-use guide helps you apply the fundamental components of DBT — such as mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness — to everyday situations that can trigger your symptoms. And through personal examples and real-life stories, you’ll see how others have put these skills to work in their own lives to get relief. You’ll even learn how social media can help you heal! BPD is a part of your life, but it doesn’t have to define you. If you are ready to take control of your symptoms using powerful, evidence-based DBT skills, this friendly guide will light the way.

Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: a Guide to Evidence-Based Practice. Joel Paris, $27.95

Organizing a vast body of scientific literature, this indispensable book presents the state of the art in understanding borderline personality disorder (BPD) and distills key treatment principles that therapists need to know. Rather than advocating a particular approach, Joel Paris examines a range of therapies and identifies the core ingredients of effective intervention. He offers specific guidance for meeting the needs of this challenging population, including ways to improve diagnosis, promote emotion regulation and impulse control, maintain appropriate therapeutic boundaries, and deal with suicidality and other crises. Highly readable, practical, and humane, the book also explains the latest thinking on the causes of BPD and how it develops.

The Weather House: Living with a Parent with Borderline Personality Disorder. Lisa Laporte & Ronald Fraser, $22.95

This illustrated book for school-aged children provides clinically sound and age-appropriate information for children, giving them clear answers about the BPD of a parent, and suggesting ways to cope with their parents' stormy moments.