How Family Therapy Can Help Manage BPD

If you have a心爱的人和边缘性人格障碍（BPD），家庭治疗可能是传统的有用的补充治疗计划。对于那些有心理健康问题的家庭成员来说，常见的是他们所爱的人的症状而感到不知所措，并且经常需万博手机客户端要帮助理解他们如何应对。通过涉及治疗的整个家庭，可以通过赋予家庭能够以更有效的方式努力更好地管理BPD。

The Basics of Family Therapy

Family therapy is different than the traditional kind of psychotherapy that most people are familiar with. Rather than just one person and their therapist, family therapy involves the whole household working together with one or two therapists. This form of treatment typically involves the parents or siblings but can also include extended groups when appropriate.

如果有BPD的人对您的家庭日常生活产生负面影响或者您认为您的家庭的行为可能恶化BPD症状，则为您可能是一个选择。有时这两个问题互动 - BPD症状损害家庭功能和家庭功能差使得BPD症状更糟，创造了一个痛苦的循环，使每个人都更困难。

Does It Work?

关于家庭治疗如何使BPD的人有利于稀疏的研究，但它是具有大量潜力的越来越多的研究领域。包括家庭成员在内的群体治疗已被证明对其他心理健康障碍如双相情感障碍或抑郁症有益，因此对BPD的影响很有前景。万博手机客户端少数研究表明，这种类型的治疗可能会导致更好的沟通，更少的冲突，以及在BPD家庭中的负担和有罪的感受。如果您有一个少年或依赖家庭成员，一些临床医生认为这种方法可能对他们特别有帮助。

Other Types of Treatment

除了治疗外，您还有其他资源和您的家庭。家庭连接是一个与家庭合作的信誉良好的程序，没有BPD的人，因此他们可以公开讨论他们的情况。一个12周的计划，您的家庭将学习BPD，应对机制，以便与团体的团体合作，整体上班，以更新。

You can learn more about the Family Connections program from theNational Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder。

In addition to Family Connections, a variety of similar programs are available. For example, the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) offers the "家庭到家庭“计划, which is similar to Family Connections but offers support to families coping with other kinds of major mental illnesses as well. You may even find a program or support group at a local hospital—you can try searching their website or call to find out if they offer services for families.

Finding Family Therapy

It is definitely not easy tofind a family therapist和a specialty in this area for BPD, but it's becoming more common. Start with your loved one's current therapist and ask for a referral to someone who does family therapy. You may also check with your health insurance company to see whether they have referrals and whether the cost of this type of treatment will be covered.

你也可能想要尝试American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy’s therapist referral site。