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DBT Residential Treatment for Teens: Borderline Personality Disorder and Beyond

10 September 2025 No Comments

Dialectical behavioural therapy is a type of talking therapy originally designed for adults with borderline personality disorder. Since then, it has been adapted for treatment among adolescents and offered for a wide range of mental health concerns, including eating disorders, self-harm, and emotional dysregulation. Usually delivered in outpatient settings, studies have shown that DBT is highly effective in improving young people’s mental health symptoms and quality of life.

Eating Disorders and Borderline Personality Disorder: The Effects of Emotional Dysregulation in Teenage Girls

4 August 2025 No Comments

Emotions are a huge part of the human experience. They help us to understand and react to situations quickly, before we have time to logically process what’s happening. They pull us towards certain things and push us away from others.

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Borderline Personality Disorder in Dubai

15 July 2025 No Comments

Young people in the UAE may also be confronted with mental health stigma among friends, family members, and even health institutions. This stigma can discourage young people from seeking help and limit the provision of effective mental health support.

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The Benefits of an Early BPD Diagnosis

27 June 2025 No Comments

Timely intervention can prevent BPD traits from developing and intensifying and lead to earlier recovery. It also prevents much of the social and psychological harm that can result from BPD, such as the development of other mental health disorders or patterns of unstable and damaging relationships.

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Bipolar Disorder in Young Children

5 June 2025 No Comments

Like adolescents and adults with the disorder, young children also experience extreme mood swings with high and low episodes. However, these episodes can manifest in slightly different ways.

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The Difference Between Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder

28 April 2025 No Comments

Borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder are often confused – even by clinicians. However, although some of their symptoms are similar, the two disorders are very different. They have different symptoms, causes, and courses of illness – and require different treatments.

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How Does Unresolved Trauma in the Family Underpin Mental Health Conditions Including AN and BPD?

27 March 2025 No Comments

When families experience trauma, it changes the way family members relate to one another and affects the family system as a whole. Sometimes, families are able to resolve their trauma, especially if they already have a strong and supportive family system. In other cases, unresolved trauma causes long-term harm to relationships and interactions between family members. This disrupts young people’s emotional and social learning and can cause them to develop unhelpful or harmful thought patterns and behaviours as they attempt to cope with what they experience and observe.

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Recovering from Borderline Personality Disorder and Anorexia in Oman: How Can Parents Seek Support?

10 March 2025 No Comments

Oman is a high-income country in the Gulf region – and most of its population is young. But, while mental health problems are common among adolescents and young adults, specialist services are lacking. There are very few institutions that offer mental healthcare to young people and many internal and external barriers to seeking help.

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How Does Borderline Personality Disorder Affect Young People’s Relationships?

7 March 2025 No Comments

Relationships are a core dimension of BPD traits and experiences. Young people with BPD often experience a fear of abandonment that leads to intense, close partnerships and sudden breakups. They may switch between seeing a friend or romantic partner as ‘all good’ and ‘all bad’, creating volatility and instability.

Borderline Personality Disorder in Teens and Young Adults in Mexico

4 December 2024 No Comments

If you know a young person living with BPD, it’s important to find effective and specialist treatment. While this can take some time, it can make a huge difference in the life of a young person and their family. Living with BPD is really hard, but with the right support, young people can recover.

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Parenting Teenage Boys to Use Voice Over Violence

30 September 2025

Parents play a huge role in their children’s lives, and, consequently, can play a big role in violence prevention. Positive parenting, through role-modelling, warmth, and responsiveness, nurtures secure attachments where teenagers can learn social and emotional skills from their parents. Engaging in specific conversations about violence – and how to avoid it – is also key.

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Family Business and Mental Health: the Impact of Adverse Mental Health on Families who Live and Work Together

26 September 2025

In some cases, the stress caused by mental health disorders can cause conflicts and tensions that rebound in the workplace, paralysing decision-making and teamwork. Yet, with resilience, flexibility, and commitment to one another, families can reorganise and restructure to accommodate and support a loved one, both at work and at home.

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Difficulty Sleeping in the Teenage Years and the Relationship to Mental Health: Top Ten Sleep Tips for Teens

22 September 2025

This blog offers some information about what causes sleeping problems among teenagers and the impact on teen mental health. We also outline ten tips that can help teenagers sleep longer and more deeply.

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