Friends for Mental Health is a non-profit community organization that provides families and friends with the support, information and education they need to help them cope with a loved one's mental illness.
SERVICES - BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER TRAINING
Borderline Personality Disorder Training
"To Love and Help Someone who Suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder-A challenge that can be achieved".
Two phases of training offered to family members and friends.
Registration is limited to 12 participants.
General Objective
Understanding a person who suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) - loving them and helping them while being in control of your own life.
Specific Goals
Develop your knowledge to help you be more effective in your interactions and in the help you offer.
Reflecting on your personal situation.
Borderline Personality Disorder Training for Families
Phase 1: Psycho-education: Developing Our Knowledge
1st Meeting: The Starting Point
Presentation of the program, objectives, content, structure and group format.
Impact of the problem.
Reflection on your expectations.
2nd Meeting: Understanding the Problem of Borderline Personality Disorder
The difference between personality and personality disorder, the diagnostic criteria from the DSM IV and its effects on daily life.
Exercise helping you to determine if your loved one has the colors of a person with BPD.
Reflections on the impact of these behaviors on you.
3rd Meeting: Understanding the Origin and the Intensity of BPD
Understanding the origin of the problem and its intensity.
Exercise to reflect on your understanding of the borderline personality disorder and it's impact on your life.
4th Meeting: The Relational Dynamic:Part 1
The manner in which the person who suffers
from this disorder enters into relationships and the manner in which others try to react and help.
Exercise helping you to reflect on how you help your loved one.
5th Meeting: The Relational Dynamic: Part 2
Relational patterns used by a person who suffers from this disorder and the consequences of relationship failures.
Exercise helping you to reflect on these relational patterns and their impact.
6th Meeting: The Relational Dynamic: Last Part
Understanding the impact on the family system and the relation of co-dependence.
Exercise allowing you to determine if you are at risk to fall into the trap of codependence.
7th Meeting: Understanding the Tendency to Harm Oneself
Understanding the dynamic of suicide and suicidal gestures.
Exercise looking at the impact of self-mutilation, suicide and the notion of the optimal response.
8th Meeting to Change or Maintain the Status Quo
The consequences of making changes and the dangers of not making them responsible for their actions.
Exercise to reflect on the advantages and the disadvantages of change and the status quo.
Phase Two: Making Changes - Developing the Means to Change
(Pre-requisite: Must have taken phase one.)
1. Issues regarding changing your helping style.
2. Knowing yourself to better adapt and adjust.
3. Implementing change.
4. Support during change (individual meeting - personal goals).
5. and 6. Support during change ( group meeting).
7. Review- Assessing Progress.
(free, In English & French)
Must register:
(514) 636-6885
Providing support to families to cope with a loved one's mental illness serving primarily the West Island of Montreal: Baie-d'Urfé, Beaconsfield,
Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Dorval, Île-Bizard, Kirkland, Pierrefonds, Pointe-Claire, Roxboro, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Ste-Geneviève and Senneville.
