Personality Workbook

Introducing a breakthrough, integrative approach to managing your borderline personality disorder (BPD). If you’ve been diagnosed with BPD you may feel a number of emotions—including shock, shame, sadness, abandonment, emptiness, or even anger. Even worse, you may be tempted to research your diagnosis online, only to find doomsday scenarios and terrible prognoses everywhere you click. Take a deep breath. You can get through this—and this workbook will help guide you. Despite what you may have read or been told, BPD is not the worst thing that can happen to you. Like many mental health issues, it manifests on a spectrum, and while some people may encounter extreme symptoms and consequences on one end, others may be less affected on the other. What do you all have in common? You likely experience difficulty balancing your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. And you may even have trouble seeing yourself clearly—continuously switching from the hero to the villain of the story you’ve written about your life. So, how can you make sense of it all and start on the road to healing? Rather than utilizing a one-size-fits-all treatment, this groundbreaking and comprehensive workbook meets you where you are on your therapeutic journey, and provides an integrative approach to treating BPD drawing on evidence-based dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and interpersonal therapy. With this compassionate workbook, you’ll gain a greater understanding of your BPD, uncover your own emotional triggers, and discover your own personal motivators for positive change. Your BPD has determined how you see and live your life, but it doesn’t have to define you forever. With this workbook as your guide, you’ll be ready to face your diagnosis head-on, and take those important first steps toward lasting wellness.

This workbook provides individuals who are undergoing therapy for borderline personality disorder with the tools to help them evaluate their emotional state, develop strategies to manage their moods and increase tolerance to stress, and learn techniques that will enable them to form and maintain healthy relationships. When you have borderline personality disorder (BPD), your emotions are always very intense . . . Relationships with others are sources of suffering in your life . . . You may also make impulsive decisions that you later regret. Are you ready for help in improving your daily life? The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook provides you with a step-by-step therapeutic program that you can follow in the comfort of your home. You will learn the most effective, evidence-based strategies that will help you • regulate your emotions; • reduce your impulsivity; • improve your relationships with others; • create a positive environment in which to flourish Interactive, informative elements appear on virtually every page of this engaging book. A matrix is used throughout to help you document your emotional state and behaviors associated with distressing feelings, situations, and relationships. Vignettes about a fictional character, Candace, appear in every chapter to illustrate both adaptive and maladaptive responses in various scenarios. The book also incorporates principles from acceptance and commitment therapy, and quotations and key points help reinforce the lessons. Along with therapy, this book can help you overcome your everyday problems and live a life that has meaning for you.

The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide is organized as a series of answers to questions common to BPD sufferers: What is BPD? How long does it last? What other problems co-occur with BPD? Overviews what we currently know about BPD make up the first section of the book. Later chapters cover several common treatment approaches to BPD: dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mentalization-based therapy (MBT), and medical treatment using psychoactive drugs. In the last sections of the book, readers learn a range of day-to-day coping skills that can help moderate the symptoms of BPD.

The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook for Personality Disorders helps readers learn and practice eight core skills based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to overcome the symptoms of a variety of personality disorders, including paranoid personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder.

At various times in our lives we may ask ourselves some big questions or face a big challenge. : Where am I going? What do I want out of work and life? Why have things not worked out as I expected so far? In order to find out answers, the first place to look is inside yourself. By learning more about your personality and what makes you tick, it can help you develop new ways of operating and make different choices to get what you want. Use this insight to help you with: - Career Planning - finding the job that's right for your personality - Goal Setting - achieving a goal that you find challenging - Managing Others - understanding what motivates others and how to manage them

Gary Trosclair explores the power of the driven personality and the positive outcomes those with obsessive compulsive personality disorder can achieve through a mindful program of harnessing the skills that can work, and altering those that serve no one. If you were born with a compulsive personality you may become rigid, controlling, and self-righteous. But you also may become productive, energetic, and conscientious. Same disposition, but very different ways of expressing it. What determines the difference? Some of the most successful and happy people in the world are compelled by powerful inner urges that are almost impossible to resist. They’re compulsive. They’re driven. But some people with a driven personality feel compelled by shame or insecurity to use their compulsive energy to prove their worth, and they lose control of the wheel of their own life. They become inflexible and critical perfectionists who need to wield control, and they lose the point of everything they do in the process. A healthy compulsive is one whose energy and talents for achievement are used consciously in the service of passion, love and purpose. An unhealthy compulsive is one whose energy and talents for achievement have been hijacked by fear and its henchman, anger. Both are driven: one by meaning, the other by dread. The Healthy Compulsive: Healing Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder and Taking the Wheel of the Driven Personality, will serve as the ultimate user’s guide for those with a driven personality, including those who have slid into obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD). Unlike OCD, which results in specific symptoms such as repetitive hand-washing and intrusive thoughts, OCPD permeates the entire personality and dramatically affects relationships. It also requires a different approach to healing. Both scientifically informed and practical, The Healthy Compulsive describes how compulsives get off track and outlines a four-step program to help them consciously cultivate the talents and passions that are the truly compelling sources of the driven personality. Drawing from his 25 years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist and Jungian psychoanalyst, and his own personal experience as someone with a driven personality, Trosclair offers understanding, inspiring stories of change, and hope to compulsives and their partners about how to move to the healthy end of the compulsive spectrum.

"Paranoid Personality Disorder Workbook :A Holistic and Comprehensive Workbook for Understanding and Managing PPD" is written in a reader-friendly manner, making complex concepts accessible to a broad audience. The prime objective of this book is to illuminate the multifarious aspects of PPD, enabling readers to attain a comprehensive understanding of the disorder. It aspires to be a beacon of support for individuals with PPD, their families, caregivers, and mental health professionals by providing insightful knowledge and multidimensional strategies for coping and healing. Comprehensive Insight: This groundbreaking book spans across multifarious dimensions of PPD, offering readers an expansive comprehension. It meticulously explores definitions, diagnostic criteria, and diverse manifestations, integrating insights from various therapeutic methods, personal anecdotes, and groundbreaking scientific research. This multifaceted exploration delves into the core of PPD, shedding light on its etiological diversity, the intertwining psychological, biological, and socio-cultural factors that sketch its contours. Psychological Theories: The book casts light on a range of psychological theories and perspectives surrounding PPD. From cognitive-behavioral viewpoints to psychodynamic insights, it blends theoretical depth with practical applicability, thereby equipping readers with a rich theoretical foundation to comprehend the multifaceted psychological facets of PPD. Relational Dynamics & Impact: The relational implications and repercussions of PPD extend deeply. The book, through poignant narratives and real-life scenarios, lays bare the intricate dynamics and impacts of PPD on interpersonal relationships and familial bonds, offering nuanced understandings of the relational phenomena associated with PPD. Holistic Alleviation Strategies: Diverging from the conventional, the book pioneers holistic strategies for alleviating PPD symptoms. It elucidates a plethora of intervention modalities, ranging from psychotherapeutic interventions to alternative and complementary therapies. These strategies are meticulously detailed, enabling readers to discern, adapt, and implement suitable alleviation strategies. Clinical Dimensions & Comorbidity: Embarking on the clinical terrains, the book unveils detailed assessments, differential diagnoses, and comorbidities associated with PPD. It serves as a comprehensive clinical manual, providing thorough insights into the diverse clinical dimensions and manifestations of PPD. Empowerment & Transformation: At its core, this book is a transformative journey. It is imbued with empowering narratives, inspiring stories, and transformative insights. It is an instrument of change, intended to empower individuals affected by PPD, their loved ones, and clinicians by providing them with the knowledge, strategies, and inspiration to navigate through the challenges of PPD and embrace wellness, resilience, and recovery. Practical Approaches & Real-Life Scenarios: The practical applicability of the book is accentuated with real-life examples and scenarios. These illustrative examples resonate with the lived experiences, offering tangible illustrations of the transformative power of holistic approaches in the lives of individuals with PPD. The practical insights and strategies furnished in the book are founded on the principles of adaptability, relatability, and transformation. Empathetic Narratives: This book intertwines empathy and understanding through its integration of first-person narratives and stories from relatives, shedding light on the multifaceted human experiences and the resilience of the human spirit. These narratives are not just reflections of individual journeys but are symbolic of hope, resilience, and transformation.

This unique workbook was written for the undergraduate Personality course where professors are looking for activities to help students learn and apply personality theories to real-life examples. The workbook is geared toward personality courses that are theories-based, as opposed to research-based. Because the cases explored are those based on normal behavior (as opposed to abnormal behavior), this workbook is especially useful. While most personality texts present the major concepts of personality theories, they don't help students apply the theories they have learned or to use the theories to understand other examples on their own. This workbook will help students do just that and is the perfect complement to any Personality text.