Parenting stress and competence in borderline personality disorder is associated with mental health, trauma history, attachment and reflective capacity

ConclusionsParents who were able to imaginatively enter the subjective world of the child and hold the child ’s mind in mind with less certainty, reported reduced parenting stress and greater parenting satisfaction and efficacy. Helping to improve personality and mental health functioning, increasing parental reflective capacity and strengthening parent-child attachment relationships, may reduce parentin g stress and increase parenting competence in individuals with BPD.
Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research