Motivate your BPD clients with values-based treatment! This 16-week ACT protocol will help you get started today.

As you know, clients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and emotion dysregulation often struggle with negative beliefs about themselves-beliefs that can lead to feelings of shame, problems with personal relationships, and dangerous behaviors. And while dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is the standard treatment for BPD, more and more, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has shown promising results when treating BPD clients by helping them focus on their core values and forgiveness.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder provides a comprehensive program for delivering ACT to clients with BPD. Using the session-by-session, 16-week protocol in this professional guide, you can help clients work through the main driver behind BPD-experiential avoidance-and gain the psychological flexibility needed to balance their emotions and begin healing. You can use this protocol on its own, or in conjunction with treatment.

With this guide, you'll learn to target the fundamental causes of BPD for better treatment outcomes and happier, healthier clients.

About the Author

Patricia E. Zurita Ona, PsyD, is director of the East Bay Behavior Therapy Center and adjunct professor at the Wright Institute. Her clinical work started first as a school psychologist, and then as a clinical psychologist. She has significant experience working with children, adolescents, and adults with mood, anxiety, and body-image concerns; particular areas of expertise are obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Zurita Ona also provides specialized services for individuals struggling with emotion dysregulation problems, such as borderline personality disorder (BPD), with or without self-harm and suicidal behaviors. She is coauthor of Mind and Emotions, a universal protocol for emotional disorders that has received a Self-Help Seal of Merit from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).

Zurita Ona serves on the board of directors for OCD SF Bay Area, an affiliate of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF), and is in charge of the clinical symposium for the annual conference of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA). In addition to private practice, Zurita Ona is a clinical faculty member for the Wright Institute, where she supervises and teaches doctoral students.

Book Information
ISBN 9781684031771
Author Patricia E. Zurita Ona
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint New Harbinger Publications
Publisher New Harbinger Publications
Weight(grams) 580g
Dimensions(mm) 252mm * 178mm * 22mm