Meeting the Missing Middle with Relational Support

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Community is a grassroots, peer led, independent not for profit organisation dedicated to providing a voice for all members of the BPD community in Victoria.

This project explores relational support as an area of learning and intervention contributing to more positive relationships, recovery, and wellbeing for people with lived experience of BPD.

This project also aimed to contribute to the emerging discourse surrounding the role of relationships and social connection in recovery from BPD and support for family, friends, and carers, and provide an initial evidence base for further inquiry in this under-researched and complex area.

As a collaborative project between BPD Community and the University of Melbourne, this project also aimed to generate research evidence to inform BPD Community’s program of work and future grant-seeking and funding activities, particularly as they relate to further research collaborations and exploration of relational support as an effective model contributing to recovery and quality of life for people with lived experience of BPD.

View the final report.

Research Team:

Dr Anneliese Spiteri-Staines, Research Fellow, Social Work, Melbourne School of Health Sciences

Community Partner:

BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) Community