
What is borderline personality disorder? With Carla Sharp, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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Do You Have a Stable Personality in Children?
One of the areas where you have done some ground breaking work is around diagnosing b p d in younger people. Can you talk about that? I mean, anolescence is a time of stormy emotions, moodiness, confusion. Mean, how could you diagnose a kid as having b p d when you know he or she is still going through all this developmental turmoil? Oh, absolutely. So you're right. We we now know from temperamental research in children that actually, little babies come into the world with very am quite stable and patterns of approach and avoidance behavior. And so these stabilitycoefficients turn out to be as stable in children lescente as they are in adults
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