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Parenting and the Development of Borderline Personality Disorder

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We propose a developmental psychopathology model for the development of borderline personality disorder (BPD). We base the model on the conceptual similarity between domains of dysfunction in BPD (attachment, self-development, and self-regulation) and early stage-salient issues in childhood (in infancy, toddlerhood, and the preschool period respectively and re-worked in adolescence). Parents’ temperament, representations of their own childhood, the environmental context, the child's temperament, experience of trauma, and representations of his or her experience, may interact, to make it more or less likely that the child will succeed or fail to negotiate these stage-salient issues. Failure at these successive developmental tasks may make the development of BPD more likely in adolescence or early adulthood. We provide theoretical and empirical support for the model, and propose directions for future research and implications for preventive interventions.

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    Jennifer M. Strimpfel

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Macfie, J., Strimpfel, J.M. (2014). Parenting and the Development of Borderline Personality Disorder. In: Sharp, C., Tackett, J. (eds) Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0591-1_19

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