@article{ref1,
title="[Stability of borderline personality disorder from childhood to adulthood: a literature review]",
journal="Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie",
year="2008",
author="Deschamps, P. K. H. and Vreugdenhil, C.",
volume="50",
number="1",
pages="33-41",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe and frequent disorder. Little is known about its early stages, which can be in childhood or adolescence. AIM: To investigate to what extent BPD is stable from childhood through to adulthood. METHOD: The literature was systematically reviewed with the help of Medline, Psycinfo, embase and the Cochrane Library. RESULTS: Of children known to have BPD in the primary school age-group, 80% met the criteria for a personality disorder in adulthood and 16% met the criteria for BPD. In a population study of adults with bpd, 30% still met the criteria two years later. In groups of adolescents at risk the criteria were met by 15-30 % after two to three years. These groups also showed a low dimensional stability for BPD. The most stable symptoms were feelings of emptiness, anger, affect-instability and identity problems. Less stable symptoms were suicidality, self-harm, impulsiveness, unstable relationships, derealisation and paranoid thinking. CONCLUSIONS: Research into the stability of BPD that starts in children of primary school age has been too limited in a methodological sense for us to draw any firm conclusions. Research into BPD that starts in adolescence shows a low categorial and dimensional stability. Research into the onset of BPD in adults shows comparable low stability, but only after six years. In adolescents and adults impulsive and self-harm behaviour are probably the least stable symptoms and affective symptoms the most stable ones.<p /><p>Language: nl</p>",
language="nl",
issn="0303-7339",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}