Parenting in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder, Sequelae for the Offspring and Approaches to Treatment and Prevention

Purpose of Review We review recent findings concerning the implications of borderline personality disorder (BPD) on parenting behaviors, the parent-child relationships, and parental and child outcomes. We focus on self-report and interview data characterizing parents with BPD and their children as w...

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Published in:Current psychiatry reports 2019-02, Vol.21 (2), p.9-9, Article 9
Main Authors: Florange, Julian G., Herpertz, Sabine C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Borderline personality disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder - prevention & control
Borderline Personality Disorder - psychology
Borderline Personality Disorder - therapy
Child of Impaired Parents - psychology
Emotions
Humans
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mothers - psychology
Parent-Child Relations
Parenting - psychology
Parents & parenting
Parents - psychology
Personality disorders
Personality Disorders (K Bertsch
Psychiatry
Section Editor
Stress, Psychological
Topical Collection on Personality Disorders
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Summary:Purpose of Review We review recent findings concerning the implications of borderline personality disorder (BPD) on parenting behaviors, the parent-child relationships, and parental and child outcomes. We focus on self-report and interview data characterizing parents with BPD and their children as well as on observational paradigms investigating parent-child relationships and the quality of dyadic interactions. Novel treatment approaches are discussed. Recent Findings Parents with BPD suffer from increased parenting stress and display characteristic behavioral patterns towards their children, impeding the formation of a healthy parent-child relationship and disrupting offspring emotional development. Offspring are at greater risk of maltreatment and developing BPD themselves, with parental affective instability playing a substantial mediating role. Summary Mothers with BPD face a meaningful burden in their parenting role. Mechanisms of the transmission of BPD pathology onto the following generation are beginning to be understood. Targeted interventions have been devised recently, with preliminary testing producing encouraging results.
ISSN:1523-3812
1535-1645
DOI:10.1007/s11920-019-0996-1