'What can I do?'
Skills for parents, partners and friends (carers) to support a person
living with borderline personality disorder (BPD)
People with lived experience of BPD and related difficulties can struggle with painful emotions, identity, self-control and relationships. People who love or support them can also struggle with their own distress and in the relationship with the person they are supporting. In this webinar, Dr. Alan Fruzzetti will highlight skills to help family members and carers relieve their own emotions and distress while also building healthy relationships with the person they care for. Skills include reducing emotional vulnerabilities, distress and dysregulation and increasing relationship mindfulness, validation, and self-validation.
This event is being held to show our support for BPD Awareness Month in the USA, UK and Europe. BPD Awareness Week is held in Australia 1-7 October each year.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This workshop is suited to carers (either family by birth or choice) or clinicians from a range of mental health and allied health sectors who want to broaden their understanding of how to support carers supporting a person living with BPD.
PRESENTER:
Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD, developed the free/open access NEA-BPD Family Connections program (with Dr. Perry Hoffman) for family members of people with BPD and related difficulties, now available in about 30 countries.
He is presently a Research Fellow at the National Suicide Research Foundation/University College Cork, Lead for supervision & implementation for the National DBT Team in Ireland, on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, and professor emeritus at the University of Nevada-Reno.
Fruzzetti has authored more than 130 research and clinical paper, book chapters, two books, testified to Congressional committees in the U.S., and has lectured and trained professionals and the public in more than two dozen countries.
TIME:
Thursday 9 May 2024 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (UTC+10) AEST
COST:
Non-waged carers (family by birth or choice): $20
Lived experience peer worker/student: $20
Clinician, corporate. government: $50
LOCATION:
This event will be held online via zoom. The zoom link will be sent 24 hours prior to the event to the email address used for registration. If you don't receive the link please check your junk/spam folder.
The session will be recorded and the link emailed to all registrants ASAP after the session.
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