To celebrate BPD Awareness week, NEABPD Australia presents a free webinar for familes and carers detailing the latest treatment options for BPD and alternative coping strategies while waiting for treatment. Hear from leading experts in the field of Borderline Personality Disorder.

Dr Yogendra Agrawal completed his specialist training in India and subsequently obtained a fellowship from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in Australia. Dr Agrawal currently works with Monash Health in the youth mental health early psychosis program, and has been in private practice In Gippsland and Melbourne since 2009.

Prior to this, Dr Agrawal has worked as a consultant psychiatrist in Latrobe Regional Hospital, Latrobe Valley and Sale Community Mental Health Service for more than 11 years. Dr Agrawal is Adjunct lecturer at Monash Rural School of Medicine and involved in teaching medical students and trainee registrars. He is particularly interested in working with General Practitioners on primary care. His areas of interests are mood and anxiety disorders, borderline personality disorder, perinatal mental health and organic and functional psychotic disorders in late adolescent and adult groups.

Professor Andrew Chanen's research, clinical and training interests lie in prevention and early intervention for severe mental disorders, principally personality disorders, along with mood and psychotic disorders.

He developed and directs the award-winning Helping Young People Early program, a clinical, research and training program run out of Orygen that is focused on understanding, preventing and treating severe personality disorder in young people.

Andrew has been the President of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders since 2011 and an Executive Board Member since 2003. He serves on the editorial boards of Early Intervention in Psychiatry, Psychopathology, Personality and Mental Health and is a reviewer for local and international scientific journals.

Andrew’s research includes the published first randomised controlled trial of early intervention for borderline personality disorder in young people.

 The National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder: Family Connections™ Program

Family Connections™ is a 12-week course that meets weekly to provide education, skills training, and support for people who are in a relationship with someone who has BPD and problems with emotion dysregulation. Focusing on issues that are specific to BPD, it is hosted in a community setting and led by trained group leaders who are often family members of relatives with BPD. Dr. Alan Fruzzetti and Dr. Perry Hoffman developed the course based on their research as well as their significant professional expertise in counseling people with BPD and their loved ones. Family Connections provides current information and research on BPD and on family functioning; individual coping skills based on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT); family skills; and group support that builds an ongoing network for family members.

NEABPD Australia is a not-for-profit charity that offers the free Family Connections program.  We are not government funded and rely purely on the generosity of our volunteers.     If you would like to receive information about the next Family Connections Program in your area please register here: https://www.bpdaustralia.org/family-connections-registration-form/  

Thank You for your contribution. All proceeds from this event will support the great work of NEA BPD Australia. All proceeds are used for the coordination and dissemination of the Family Connections Program throughout Australia, resources to conduct regular Family Connections Leader Trainings, and to provide up to date information and resources through webinars, conferences, and on our website https://www.bpdaustralia.org/