Borderline Personality Disorder resources

What is BPD?

This BPD fact sheet (PDF 6.5MB) developed by people with a lived experience of BPD, provides an overview of signs and symptoms, strategies and treatments that can be helpful for people with BPD and those supporting them.

Useful Contacts and Resources:

We have created a useful contact and resource which lists organisations, websites and services that offer support, counselling and information.

Responding to people in crisis

The 2025 BPD Awareness Week planning group developed the following guides to assist in understanding someone presenting with symptoms of BPD in crisis and support compassionate and effective responses.

Be the practitioner with a difference

Be the Practitioner with a Difference — Principles of care. The 2023 BPD awareness week lived experience planning committee prepared an open letter to practitioners (PDF 509KB) and a screen saver (PNG 88KB) summarising the messages that people with lived experience would like practitioners to know.

Living Life Well: Recovery & BPD

This 'Zine' was developed by the BPD Awareness 2024 planning committee to provide a hopeful and compassionate guide to BPD, and to help readers find what living well looks like for them.


Additional Resources:

These resources were developed with people who have lived experience of BPD and we would like to acknowledge their valuable contributions.

Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of BPD (2012)

The National Health and Medical Research Council Australia published Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Borderline Personality Disorder in 2012. The guidelines were developed by a multi-disciplinary committee consisting of clinical, consumer and carer representatives with considerable expertise. 

Note: All clinical guidelines have a validity of 5 years, the current guidelines have therefore been rescinded by the NHMRC. More recent research in the field would support that these guidelines represent ‘best practice’ for supporting people living with BPD.

Websites containing a range of useful BPD resources

BPD SA

BPD SA has been developed by the Private Mental Health Consumer Carer Network (Australia) Limited. It is designed to provide a central point for information for consumers, carers, family members and health providers about borderline personality disorder and the support services including referral requirements, available in South Australia. It does not directly provide support services for people with BPD or their families, friends or carers but does provide links to information from other providers to help to navigate what is available in South Australia

Project Air

Project Air is the personality disorder strategy in New South Wales, which aims to support better services for people with personality disorders and their families and carers. It provides multiple resources which can be freely accessed online. These resources include personal accounts of lived experiences, treatment guidelines, fact sheets, self-paced e-learning modules, videos, publications and newsletters.

Spectrum Personality Disorder and Complex Trauma Service

Spectrum Personality Disorder Service is Victoria’s state-wide Centre of Clinical Excellence for Personality Disorders and Complex Trauma. It also offers online resources which can be accessed freely. These include a discussion regarding online forums, websites and recommended apps. There are also useful tips regarding strategies for coping with BPD and other relevant information for those in crisis as well as publications for purchase. The Spectrum website also advertises upcoming conferences and events.

Australian BPD Foundation

The Australian BPD Foundation offers resources for people with BPD including information on coping skills, videos, recommended apps, meetup online groups and links to BPD relevant websites. The Foundation’s National Training Strategy offers a range of educational opportunities including webinars, self-paced e-learning modules, a 2-day BPD Core Competencies workshop and a train-the-trainer program. The BPD Foundation website offers a breakdown of available resources on a state by state basis and information regarding upcoming events.

National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEABPD) Australia

NEABPD Australia a subsidiary of the International NEABPD organisation is committed to raising awareness of BPD through providing access to a wealth of knowledge, resources and evidence based specialist family programs with the Australian community. NEABPD-Australia coordinates the Family Connections™ program for carers in Australia.  

Mental Health Professional Network

Mental Health Professional Network offers a webinar library regarding BPD which can be freely accessed online.

National Health and Medical Research Council

Clinical Practice Guidelines for the management of Borderline Personality Disorder (2012)