Borderline Personality (BPD) Treatment Centers in 02131

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Strattus, TILL's Mental Health Clinic
Treatment Center
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Roslindale, MA 02131
Strattus is your local community mental health clinic, offering a variety of outpatient services. Our clinical team is experienced in working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families, with and without specialized needs. In addition to counseling, we also provide medication assessment, management and monitoring to adults ages 18 or older.
Strattus is your local community mental health clinic, offering a variety of outpatient services. Our clinical team is experienced in working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families, with and without specialized needs. In addition to counseling, we also provide medication assessment, management and monitoring to adults ages 18 or older.
(781) 329-9365 View (781) 329-9365
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Arbour Hospital Outpatient Services
Treatment Center
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Boston, MA 02131
Arbour Hospital has a long history of providing a continuum of quality behavioral health care in the greater Boston area. We serve adolescents and adults in an inpatient hospital in Jamaica Plain and two outpatient locations, in Jamaica Plain and Quincy.
Arbour Hospital has a long history of providing a continuum of quality behavioral health care in the greater Boston area. We serve adolescents and adults in an inpatient hospital in Jamaica Plain and two outpatient locations, in Jamaica Plain and Quincy.
(617) 819-0548 View (617) 819-0548
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Brighton-Allston Mental Health Association
Treatment Center
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Roslindale, MA 02131
Brighton-Allston Mental Health Association (BAMHA), a program of Italian Home for Children (IHC) is a diverse community mental health agency that has been servicing the Brighton/Allston community and surrounding Metro Boston area since 1964. BAMHA also has an outpatient satellite office in Jamaica Plain. We offer individual and group therapy treatment, psychopharmacology, as well as family and couples counseling services. BAMHA services clients ages 4-80+. Our BAMHA clinicians are trained in various treatment modalities including: traditional psychotherapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, expressive therapy, and play therapy. We also offer In-Home Therapy, Therapeutic Mentoring, In-Home Behavioral, and ABA services for children ages 4-20 through our partner Community Based Programs (CBP) at Italian Home. Our clinicians speak over a dozen languages, including Spanish. We now have immediate openings in all of our CBP programs, and offer telehealth services for your convenience and safety.
Brighton-Allston Mental Health Association (BAMHA), a program of Italian Home for Children (IHC) is a diverse community mental health agency that has been servicing the Brighton/Allston community and surrounding Metro Boston area since 1964. BAMHA also has an outpatient satellite office in Jamaica Plain. We offer individual and group therapy treatment, psychopharmacology, as well as family and couples counseling services. BAMHA services clients ages 4-80+. Our BAMHA clinicians are trained in various treatment modalities including: traditional psychotherapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, expressive therapy, and play therapy. We also offer In-Home Therapy, Therapeutic Mentoring, In-Home Behavioral, and ABA services for children ages 4-20 through our partner Community Based Programs (CBP) at Italian Home. Our clinicians speak over a dozen languages, including Spanish. We now have immediate openings in all of our CBP programs, and offer telehealth services for your convenience and safety.
(617) 917-2782 View (617) 917-2782
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Dana Behavioral Health
Treatment Center
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Roslindale, MA 02131
Dana Behavioral Health provides a multidisciplinary approach to behavioral health care. For over 30 years, we have treated children, adolescents, adults, and older adults providing group, couple, and individual psychotherapy; medication management; TMS Therapy, EMDR Therapy, Music Therapy, Nutrition & Wellness, and neuropsychological testing. Our clinicians have expertise in treating anxiety, anxiety, depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, trauma, PTSD, and other mental illness and psychiatric disorders. We accept both in-person and Telehealth appointments.
Dana Behavioral Health provides a multidisciplinary approach to behavioral health care. For over 30 years, we have treated children, adolescents, adults, and older adults providing group, couple, and individual psychotherapy; medication management; TMS Therapy, EMDR Therapy, Music Therapy, Nutrition & Wellness, and neuropsychological testing. Our clinicians have expertise in treating anxiety, anxiety, depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, trauma, PTSD, and other mental illness and psychiatric disorders. We accept both in-person and Telehealth appointments.
(781) 590-3525 View (781) 590-3525
Borderline Personality (BPD) Treatment Centers

What is the most successful approach to treating borderline personality disorder?

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is considered the gold standard of treatment for borderline personality disorder. An evidence-based treatment, it addresses the extreme emotional reactivity, the relationship difficulties, and the acts of self-harm that create so much distress for BPD patients. DBT is a comprehensive program that includes both regular individual psychotherapy sessions and weekly group sessions of skills training.

What happens in treatment of borderline personality disorder?

Treatment typically consists of weekly individual therapy sessions that last an hour and group skill-focused instructional sessions that may last up to two hours. Patients are typically given homework “assignments” in which they are asked to practice in their daily life the skills they acquire in therapy. Patients also keep a diary tracking their emotions and impulses as a way to know which situations are most problematic and to help them gain control over their own behavior. Difficult situations and feelings are typically reviewed in therapy sessions and more constructive solutions found.

What kinds of problems does BPD treatment help with?

DBT was initially developed to dampen the self-destructive impulses of chronically suicidal patients. It is now the treatment of choice for borderline personality disorder, a serious condition marked by extreme emotional reactivity, relationship instability, and self-injurious behaviors. Treatment of BPD helps patients tolerate the flux of emotions without acting on them, often with a specific focus on tolerating negative emotions. DBT addresses the core problems of BPD—fear of abandonment, low self-esteem, and impulsivity.

What is the goal of treatment in borderline personality disorder?

The goal of treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD) is to relieve the extreme emotional distress that patients experience—to curb their emotional reactivity, to minimize their inclination to self-harm, and to reduce their impulsivity. Toward these ends, patients are not only taught an array of new coping skills and techniques for emotional regulation, they are given opportunities to practice them. Another major goal of treatment is interpersonal effectiveness; patients learn and problem-solve ways to effectively communicate in relationships, especially how to ask for what they need as a way to minimize hurt feelings.