TY - JOUR
T1 - Commentary
T2 - Bringing together lived experience, clinical and research expertise – a commentary on the May 2022 debate (should CAMH professionals be diagnosing personality disorder in adolescence?)
AU - Hartley, Samantha
AU - Baker, Charley
AU - Birtwhistle, Michael
AU - Burgess, Jennifer L.
AU - Chatburn, Eleanor
AU - Cobbaert, Laurence
AU - Howley, Maddie
AU - Huggett, Charlotte
AU - MacKenzie-Nash, Charlie
AU - Newton, Alice
AU - Parry, Sarah
AU - Smith, Jee
AU - Taylor, Christopher D.J.
AU - Taylor, Peter James
AU - Timoclea, Robyn
N1 - Funding Information:
S.H. coordinated the development and writing of the piece. All authors should be considered to have contributed equally to the contents and are listed in alphabetical order. The authors have declared that they have no competing or potential conflicts of interest.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Child and Adolescent Mental Health published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
PY - 2022/9/1
Y1 - 2022/9/1
N2 - Background: There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that the Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD, or similar Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, EUPD) construct is harmful. We provide a commentary on the ideas expressed in the May Debate issue, highlighting both concerns and alternatives. Method: We bring together lived experience, clinical and research expertise. This commentary was written collaboratively drawing on all these sources of evidence. Results: We outline evidence that the BPD construct is invalid, harmful, not necessary for effective treatment and a potential block to the development and evaluation of alternatives. Conclusions: We ask readers to consider these concerns, perspectives and ideas.
AB - Background: There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that the Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD, or similar Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, EUPD) construct is harmful. We provide a commentary on the ideas expressed in the May Debate issue, highlighting both concerns and alternatives. Method: We bring together lived experience, clinical and research expertise. This commentary was written collaboratively drawing on all these sources of evidence. Results: We outline evidence that the BPD construct is invalid, harmful, not necessary for effective treatment and a potential block to the development and evaluation of alternatives. Conclusions: We ask readers to consider these concerns, perspectives and ideas.
KW - adolescence
KW - Borderline
KW - mental health
KW - personality disorder
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85134621870&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/camh.12586
DO - 10.1111/camh.12586
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 35869030
AN - SCOPUS:85134621870
VL - 27
SP - 246
EP - 249
JO - Child and Adolescent Mental Health
JF - Child and Adolescent Mental Health
SN - 1475-357X
IS - 3
ER -
