PRINCIPAL PURPOSE OF WEBSITE

To provide educational and emotional support to family, friends, and relationship partners of individuals with borderline personality disorder, emotional regulation disorder, or emotional intensity disorder. Information found on the website is designed to support, not to replace the relationship between patient and their physician or other healthcare professional. This page was last updated on 6/9/08. Communications to Facing the Facts / BPDFamily.com should be addressed to .


ORGANIZATION RESPONSIBLE FOR SITE OPERATION

Facing the Facts / BPDFamily.com is a co-op of family, friends, and relationship partners of individuals with borderline personality disorder from all walks of life. We have 27,000 alumni and members. Each day more than 2,500 individuals visit this site to read and post. 42% stay for more than an hour.

This site is operated by volunteers. Members of the operating committee include community leaders, businessmen, clergy, healthcare workers, teachers, parents and others. Members of the operating committee are not affiliated with any companies or products or services targeted at this audience.

Articles that appear on this site were authored by specialists in their respective fields and include Elizabeth Finley-Belgrad MD, Cynthia Berkowitz MD, Dan G. Blazer MD, Martin Bohus MD, David Burns MD, Robert O. Friedel MD, John G. Gunderson MD, Daniel K. Hall-Flavin MD, Leland Heller MD, Jerold J. Kreisman MD, Marsha Lineham MD, M. Scott Peck MD, Nicolas Reusch MD, Jeffrey W. Swanson MD, Marvin Swartz MD, Xavier Amador PhD, Arnoud Arntz PhD, Shawn P. Cahill PhD, Joseph M. Carver PhD, Henry Cloud PhD, Jerry Deffenbacher PhD, Susan Forward PhD, Linda K. George PhD, Paul J. Hannig PhD, Christine Ann Lawson PhD, Miguel Lewis PsyD, Joan Lachkar PhD, John Preston PsyD, Charles Spielberger PhD, John Townsend PhD, Richard A. Warshak PhD, Jeffrey E. Young PhD, William Eddy Esq, Paul Mason MS CPC, Roger Melton MS, Valerie Porr MA, Robert Weiss LCSW, Melody Beattie, Nicole Dubowitz, Randi Kreger, and A.J. Mahari.

Doctor of Medicine (M.D. or D.M.) is a doctorate level degree held by medical doctors. The PhD and PsyD are a doctorate level degrees in psychology; the PhD is traditionally the more academic, research-oriented degree, while the PsyD degree develops skills associated with clinical practice. LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker - this license typically requires a Master Degree in psychology and the completion of a clinical practice internship. An MS is a masters level degree in psychology. CPC (Clinical Program Coordinator) is a position title.


HONCODE ACCREDITED SITE

Facing the Facts / BPDFamily.com is accredited by The Health on the Net Foundation. The Health On the Net Foundation is an NGO in special consultive status with the economic and social councils of the United Nations. The HON Foundation is the leading organization promoting and guiding the deployment of useful and reliable online medical and health information, and its appropriate and efficient use. The Health On the Net Foundation has elaborated the Code of Conduct to help standardize the reliability of medical and health information available on the World-Wide Web. This Code of Conduct (HONcode) for medical and health Web sites addresses one of Internet's main healthcare issues - the reliability and credibility of information.

CONTENT

Facing the Facts features 1) a collection of third party articles on 15 topic areas, 2) a searchable database of 750 web pages specifically selected to support users of this site, 3) a message board / support group, and 4) emergency phone numbers .

Third Party Articles: All third party articles include a link to the original source documents and a brief "bio" on the author. There are also some anonymous essays on the site (mostly in sidebars). In all cases, the author is identified as a ghost writer; names are not published to protect the privacy of the families. Readers "vote on", and critique the articles presented and participate in the article selection.

Searchable Database: This site contains a searchable database of 750 web pages of specific information, that has been pre reviewed. This database includes links to publications from the institutions Mayo, Harvard, National Institute of Health; researchers Kernberg, Schmideberg, Linehan, Gunderson; therapists Carver, Heller, Melton, Oldham, and a 5 year pub-med search, as well as writings from BPDCentral, BPD from The Inside Out, BPDresourcecenter, BorderlinePersonalityToday, mhsanctuary, Suite101, eddylaw, and others.

* CESD (20 questions) * Geriatric (15 questions) * Goldberg (18 questions) * QIDS (16 questions) * Wakefield (12 questions)

SOURCE OF FUNDING: This site is funded by private donations and operated by volunteers. The operating committee (e.g. owners, administrators, staff members, and regular members) are not financially compensated for their participation. The site does employ, from time to time, programming contractors to handle technical matters that are beyond the scope of the volunteers.


ADVERTISING POLICY: This site does not accept advertising placements or display commercial content. The listings of clinics, rehabilitation centers, books (and points of purchase), articles, links, and other resources are provided for the convenience of the reader; this site generates no revenue or special considerations from such references. Data provided by members is not used any commercial undertaking. There are no editorial content considerations given to donors.


EDITORIAL POLICY: The editorial content on this site is determined by the operating committee. Member input is encouraged in the form of readership critiques, content recommendations, and polls. The listing of books, articles, links, and other resources on this site is provided on a content basis only - there are no editorial content considerations given to donors.


COPYRIGHTS: By posting on www.bpdfamily.com, www.bpdfamily.org and/or www.facing-the-facts.net, the author agrees that, for any content authored or owned by the author, the author automatically grants to all other message board participants, and any other person or entity affiliated with the message board, a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable and unrestricted worldwide right and license to use, reproduce, and distribute the posted content for the limited purposes of discussion and commentary.


PRIVACY POLICY: It is necessary to the functioning of the Facing the Facts message board ( www.bpdfamily.org) to collect email addresses and other personally identifiable data about message board participants. All such information is collected and stored in a manner appropriate to the nature of the data. We do not sell or otherwise disclose such information outside of the organization.


DISCLAIMER / AFFILIATIONS: The authors of material that appears on this site do not have any affiliation with the site other than to supply reading material. This web site is not affiliated with Amazon.com, Association d'Aide aux Personnes avec un Etat Limite, borderlinepersonality.ca, borderlinepersonalitytoday.com, bpd411.com, BPDCentral.com, bpdresourcecenter.org, bpdworld.org, breakingup.org, brightertomorrow.net, Eddylaw.com, Google, Harvard University, Joseph M. Carver Inc, Joy to You & Me Enterprises, Mayo Clinic (The), mentalhealth.com, Mhsanctuary.com, National Institute of Health, OBGyn.net, Pubmed, Sexual Recovery Institute (The), Warner Brothers/Wizard of Oz, WebMD, wilkihow, Yahoo.