A history of prolonged childhood sexual abuse is associated with more severe clinical presentation of borderline personality disorder in adolescent female inpatients - a naturalistic study - Turniansky H, Ben-Dor D, Krivoy A, Weizman A, Shoval G.

BACKGROUND: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with high rates of suicidal and self-injurious behaviors and a substantial proportion of BPD patients have a history of trauma, particularly childhood sexual abuse (CSA). OBJECTIVE: To...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news