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APRIL-MAY 2009
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| TARA Affiliates |
TARA California
Sandy Boone,760-729-5748
sboone@compuaidusa.com
TARA Northern Calif.
Diana Benedict 707-526-3775
benedictd@sbcglobal.net TARA Chicago
Laura Cooper, 847-845-0628 cooper4449@gmail.com TARA New EnglandLeena Newcomb,413-824-2154
bleenanew@gmail.com TARA New Jersey
Regina Piscitelli 908-232-3561taranj@verizon.net TARA New YorkValerie Porr 212-966-6514
taraapd@aol.com TARA North Carolina
Marika Metting704-8075032
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President's Corner |
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Dear Friends: TARA family education programs, dedicated to helping people with BPD, teach loved one's how to repair family relationships and decrease family stressors. This is a win-win situation because, as relationships improve, everyone feels better! Out TARA Affiliate support and psychoeducation groups teach DBT skills, Mentalization techniques and the underlying Neurobiology of BPD . We are proud to welcome two new affiliates to our TARA family; Leena Newcomb for TARA New England and Marika Metting for TARA North Carolina. To start a TARA affiliate in your community, contact Sandy Boone at sboone@compuaidusa.com
New research on BPD will be presented this month at The Society for Biological Psychiatry on May 14-16, 2009 in Vancouver, BC. and at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) annual meeting, May 16-21, in San Francisco, CA.The meeting of the American Researchers on Personality Disorder (ARPD) on May 17 in San Francisco will discuss progress on the new DSM V classification for BPD and other personality disorders. Attendinmg these meetings gives you the chance to learn from the actual researchers trying to decipher BPD. If you are a TARA member, call or email to find out how to receive registration discounts.
My book, Overcoming BPD, A Family Guide for Healing and Repair is finally finished. It is my hope that it will offer you compassionate understanding of BPD and techniques to decrease everyone's suffering.
TARA is funded by your memberships and donations. The economic situation has affected us deeply. We are asking you for a donation now as a vote of confidence so that we can continue to help those affected by BPD, family by family.
If we have helped you in the past, now is the time to help us!
Please join TARA, renew your membership or make a donation NOW
We at TARA hope to you will attend our meetings, meet us in Vancouver and San Francisco, and attend conferences to learn, first hand, how you can help.
Yours truly,
Valerie Porr,
President/Founder TARA NAPD | | | |
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| NYC BPD OPEN HOUSE
MONDAY APRIL 27, June 1, 2009 7-9PM |
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Are you struggling with problems you don't understand? Do you need hope, help, support & Information? Support and Answers to all your questions about BPD.
ALL ARE WELCOME
23 Greene St.3rd Floor SOHO NY Between Canal and Grand St.
Any subway to Canal St.. Street Parking Available
Suggested Donation $25 Refreshments Served |
| MENTALIZATION for FAMILIES
Thursday Evenings 7-10 PM
April 16, 30, May 28, June 4 & 18, 2009 |
Family Training in Mentalization to
Improving Relationships & Empathetic Communication
Mentalization, (MBT), is a new, evidence based treatment for BPD, developed by Antony Bateman and Peter Fonegy. It focuses on understanding the misunderstandings that often happen when we try to communicate with others, especially a person with BPD.
Class 1 What is Mentalization?
Class 2 How do people with BPD think when dysregulated?
Class 3 How Can Mentalizing prevent family upsets?
Class 4 How to use DBT and Mentalization ?
Class 5 Practicing Mentalization in conversation
Series of 5 Classes $225 Advance registration required
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| TARA North Carolina
Wednesday May 27, 2009 7-9 PM
New Affiliate |
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Support & Psychoeducation for
Family & Friends of People with BPD
Wedgewood Baptist Church,
4800 Wedgewood Drive
Charlotte, NC 28210.
RSVP Marika Metting 704 807 5032 or marikametting1@gmail.com
Suggested Donation $15.00
Meetings: Last Wednesday of each month |
| Vancouver, BC Tuesday MAY 12, 2009 7 PM
DBT & Mentalization: Valerie Porr |
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 Integrating Techniques from
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Mentalization to
Help yourself and someone you love with BPD
Who Should Attend: Clinicians or Family Members
dealing with someone with BPD and/or suicidal/self-injury
St. Paul's Hospital, Room 1461, Providence, Level 1
1081 Burrard Street
Vancouver, BC |
| ARPD Symposium May 17, 2009 9-4:30
Marriot Courtyard, San Francisco, CA |
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9:00 - 11:00AM- Progress on DSM-V Andy Skodol, Bob Krueger, Lee Anna Clark, John Livesley, Larry Siever.
11:30-12:30 ARPD student award winner and commentary
12:30-1:30 - Lunch break
1:30-5:00 - Personality Disorders in Special Subpopulations
Problem Gamblers R. Michael Bagby, Ph.D., C.U of Toronto
Personality Disorders in Correctional Populations D. Black, U of Iowa.
Dissociation in BPD M. Korzekwa, McMaster U.
| San Francisco, CA Friday, May 22, 2009 6:30-9 PM
How Families can help thier loved one's with BPD
Valerie Porr & Sandy Boone |
| A presentation by TARA leaders, Sandy Boone and Valerie Porr on DBT skills family members can learn to implement so as to decrease stress and improve and repair relationships.Questions encouraged.
PLACE: 135 Main St. Suite 1900
San Frabcisco, CA
Suggested donation $15
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| TARA NEW JERSEY
Wednesday May 20, 2009 6:30-8:45 PM
Speaker: Adolescents Dealing with Siblings with BPD |
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What is it like to have a sibling with BPD?
PLACE First Baptist Church of Westfield, New Jersey
RSVP Regina at 908-232-3561 taranj@verizon.net
$15 suggested donation
Meetings: Third Wednesday of each month
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NYC 8 WEEK DBT Family Workshop
Tuesdays 7-11 PM
May 26,June 2,9,16, 23,30, July7 &14, 2009 |
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For Loved One's of People with BPD
Help yourself by learning how to help your loved one!
Do you believe your loved one has BPD?Are you coping with Impulsivity? Suicidal behavior? Self injury? RageAttacks? Emotional Dysregulation ?Frequently shifting moods? Super sensitivity?
Learn DBT tools to help make the environment less stressful, decrease potentially upsetting triggers and diminish volatile interactions.
Learn about the neurobiology underlying BPD , how to replacing anger with compassion, how to changes behavior
32 class hours Comprehensive BPD Notebook & Refreshments
FEES: TARA Members Indiv $325, Couples $575
Non-Members Indiv $350 Couples $650
All meeting at TARA Offices, 23 Greene St. SOHO, NY 10013
Parking available on the street Any subway to Canal Street
To register or for more info Call 212-966-6514 or 908-232-3561 or taraapd@aol.com
| Men's Only Salon
June 11, 2009 7-10 PM |
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For Men coping with a difficult son, daughter, spouse or partner. Join us for PRETZELS & BEER
Talk with other men who feel they aren't fulfilling their obligation to protect and provide and are fed up with the ignorance,misconceptions and blame surrounding BPD....
Glen is a DBT trained father and husband who has walked miles in your shoes and has restored his relationship with his loved one.
23 Greene Street NYC, NY 10013
RSVP 212-966-6514 or TARAAPD@aol.com
Donation $45 | |
| Other Events |
Weekend Workshop for Couples:
Finding Peace, Intimacy and Validation
Alan Fruzzetti and Armida Rubio Fruzzetti June 27-28 ▪ White Plains, NY Details NEABPD.
SURVEYS / QUESTIONNAIRES
BPD Consumers:What do you think DSM-V should include about BPD?
Mount Sinai School of Medicine is conducting an anonymous on-line survey for the new DSM-V slated to be introduced in 2012. If you have been frustrated by the criteria in DSM-IV-TR, here is your chance to have a voice in the upcoming DSM-V. click here
| TARA Affiliates |
TARA California TARA Chicago
Sandy Boone,760-729-5748 Laura Cooper,847-845-0628
sboone@compuaidusa.com cooper4449@gmail.com
TARA Northern Calif. TARA New England
Diana Benedict 707-526-3775 Leena Newcomb,413-824-2154
benedictd@sbcglobal.net bleenanew@gmail.com
TARA New Jersey TARA North Carolina
Regina Piscitelli 908-232-3561 Marika Metting 704-8075032 taranj@verizon.net marikametting1@gmail.comTARA New York
Valerie Porr 212-966-6514
taraapd@aol.com
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TARA Nat'l Association | | | |
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