Support Promote Advocate
for Borderline Personality Disorder
There are many skills that families can learn that will help you to relate to and support someone with BPD. These may seem complex at first – like a muscle we haven’t used before we become stronger and the skills becomes easier with practise. We suggest you practise these skills with other friends/colleagues first to develop some confidence.
These are:
Radical Acceptance
Listening
Boundaries / Limits
Validation
Understanding Validation: A Way to Communicate Acceptance
Eight dramatised role plays between young friends showing invalidating and validating responses and the immediate consequences of each
Understanding Validation in Families: Dr Alan Fruzzetti.
This series of four validation sessions is presented by Dr Alan Fruzzetti and Dr Karyn Hall. Recorded at the Chicago Validation Conference 2014 - Video 1 - Video 2 - Video 3 - Video 4