BORDERLINE CHILDREN - A CLOSER LOOK AT DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

In a follow‐up study, children who met research criteria for childhood borderline personality disorder were examined for vulnerability to the affective, personality, and anxiety disorders as defined in DSM‐III. In addition to provisional borderline, antisocial, or schizotypal personality diagnoses, many subjects had chronic affective conditions, the symptoms of which resembled those typically associated with borderline personality disorder. 1990 American Orthopsychiatric Association