Health related quality of life and psychopathological distress in risk taking and self-harming adolescents with full-syndrome, subthreshold and without borderline personality disorder: rethinking the clinical cut-off?

Abstract Background Diagnostic standards do not acknowledge developmental specifics and differences in the clinical presentation of adolescents with borderline personality disorder (BPD). BPD is associated with severe impairments in health related quality of life (HRQoL) and increased psychopatholog...

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Main Authors: Michael Kaess, Gloria Fischer-Waldschmidt, Franz Resch, Julian Koenig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-05-01
Series:Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40479-017-0058-4