Resources

• National Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD)

• New York-Presbyterian Hospital Borderline Personality Disorder Resource Center

• Treatment and Research Advancements, National Association for Personality Disorder (TARA)

• “Helping Teens who Cut” by Michael Hollander

• “BPD In Adolescents” by Blaise Aguirre

• Border Personality Disorder in Adolescents by Lionel Cailhol, Ludovic Gicquel & Jean-Philippe Raynaud

References

• Bailey, RC. Burden and support needs of carers of persons with borderline personality disorder: a systematic review. Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2013; 21: 248 – 58. American Psychiatric Association. (2013).

• Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author.

• Grant BF, Chou SP, Goldstein RB, et al., Prevalence, correlates, disability, and comorbidity of DSM-IV borderline personality disorder: results from the Wave 2 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. J ClinPsychiatry.2008;69:533–545.

• Gunderson, J. A BPD Brief: An Introduction to Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis, Origins, Course and Treatment (2014). New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division.

• Kaess, M, Brunner R, Chanen A. Borderline personality disorder in adolescence. Pediatrics, 2014. 134 (4).

• National Institute of Mental Health, “Borderline Personality Disorder” National Institute of Mental Health. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Aug 2016. Web. 21 June 2017.

• McLean Hospital Borderline Personality Disorder Patient and Family Education Initiative

• Understood.org 

• Special Education in New York City

Acknowledgements

A special thank you to members of our Education Committee who interviewed family members for this resource and contributed to its content.  It would not have been possible without the time you dedicated to transcribing the interviews and exploring in depth the issues that came out of those conversations.  

Thank you also to our board members who helped edit this publication and graphic design by Visibly Present Imagery, whose beautiful graphic designs brought it to life. We are grateful to the pro bono Partnership for its legal assistance. We thank those health care and school professionals who read drafts of this publication and offered feedback.

Finally, we are most grateful to our members with lived experience who offered testimony about their experiences in elementary school, high school, and college. Your creativity and advocacy will inspire others to know what to ask for and have hope that they can manage their BPD and education.  

Our hope is that parents and school professionals find this new resource useful in supporting the needs of students with borderline personality disorder (BPD).  We hope those suffering from BPD feel empowered to advocate for the accommodations they need to recover and continue their education.

-Paula Tusiani-Eng, LMSW, M.Div., Executive Director, Emotions Matter