What if your treatment plan fit you, and not a one-size-fits-all protocol?
No two people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are the same. Your history, symptoms, and goals are uniquely yours. Shouldn't your path to healing be as well? This groundbreaking workbook offers a personalized, research-based program to help you target the specific patterns that keep you stuck, so you can quickly build the skills you need to move forward.
Based on the authors' innovative COMPASS program and proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), The BPD Compass Workbook focuses on the core risk factors that drive most difficulties associated with BPD: Strong negative emotions, relational difficulties and mistrust, and impulsivity. You'll begin with a concise assessment to identify which of these symptoms affect you the most. Then, you'll "chart your course" and work through the modules that match your needs, so you spend time only where it counts.
Using the CBT framework of Thinking, Doing, and Being, you'll learn how to:
• Regulate strong emotions without shutting down or exploding
• Build trust gradually and show up authentically in relationships
• Pause urges, reduce impulsiveness, and choose long-term goals over short-term relief
• Align daily actions with your values, even when emotions run high
• Track progress and adjust your plan as your needs change
Because COMPASS targets transdiagnostic mechanisms, you'll also see improvements in anxiety, trauma-related symptoms, obsessive worries, and more. And because it's brief and customizable, this program can meet you where you are, whether you're beginning your healing journey or refining the skills that work best for you.
Personalized, practical, and proven-effective, The BPD Compass Workbook is your map to steadier emotions, stronger relationships, and more intentional choices.
A New Harbinger Precision Psychology Workbook
For readers struggling with borderline personality disorder (BPD), this workbook offers a powerfully effective, personalized treatment plan. Built on the authors' groundbreaking, evidence-based program, The BPD Compass Workbook offers targeted tools tailored to the individual reader's core struggles to manage BPD symptoms such as intense emotions, difficulty in relationships, and impulsivity. Using the module-based approach in this guide, readers will rapidly build skills to improve emotion regulation, impulse control, and communication with others-leading to better, longer lasting results in less time.
Shannon Sauer-Zavala, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, associate professor, and lead developer of COMPASS, a short-term intervention for personality difficulties. Her research focuses on mechanisms of emotion that maintain psychological symptoms and how to optimize treatments to improve outcomes.
Matthew W. Southward, PhD, is an assistant professor at The Ohio State University whose NIH-supported research uses translational behavioral science to optimize and personalize psychotherapy processes for mood and personality disorders.
Sauer-Zavala resides in Lexington, KY; Southward resides in Columbus, OH.
