NAMI Guests Address Borderline Personality Disorder

FAIRFIELD — NAMI Fairfield’s February Speaker Meeting Wednesday, February 4, will feature Richard Beauvais, PhD, and Phyllis Beauvais, PhD, cofounders of The Wellspring Foundation.

NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Its goals are to support those living with mental illness and their loved ones, to provide educational programs to the community that foster understanding and healthy living, and to provide advocacy.

The Fairfield speakers will address borderline personality disorder and the difficulty involved in treating this illness. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is widely recognized as an evidence-based treatment approach for borderline.

This presentation will try to help attendees understand borderline personality disorder and by distilling the essence of how the DBT approach can be effective.

The Wellspring Foundation is a multiservice mental health agency in Bethlehem that provides intensive residential treatment for children ages 6–12, adolescent girls ages 13–18, and adults, extensive outpatient services and a therapeutic state-approved special education school.

The meeting takes place in the Eliot Room Library, First Church Congregational, 148 Beach Road, from 7:30 to 9 pm and is free of charge and open to all. Light refreshments will be served.

In case of inclement weather or for more information, call Judy at 203-650-3463.