Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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1 Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry Parenting and Borderline Personalit Disorder: Ghosts in the Nursery Louise Newman and 8aroline Stevenson Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2005;10; 385 DOI: The online version of this article can be found at: Published Additional services and information for Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry can be found at: Alerts: Subscriptions: Reprints: Permissions: Citations (this article cites 20 articles hosted on the SAGE Journals Online and HighWire Press platforms): Downloaded from nlfp 1,c:p sagenun con- at Ebrca Hall lemp on January 2005 SAGE Publlcallons. All right. resewed. No1 for commercial use or unaulh0riz.d dislrlbulion.

2 $. I Parenting and Borderline Personality Disorder: Ghosts in the Nursery LOUISE NEWMAN & CAROLINE STEVENSON The New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry, Australia ABSTRACT This article reviews parenting issues for mothers with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. Motivation for parenting, conflicts and challenges associatec 00 with parenting and outcomes for infant and child development are considered. implications for current therapeutic practice with families are outlined. KEYWORDS attachment, borderline personality disorder, mother-infant intervention, parenting BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER (BPD) is a severe disturbance of personality functioning characterized by affective disruption, identity problems, poor impulse control and persistent difficulties in interpersonal functioning (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 1994). Although adults with BPD are receiving more attention in the research literature (e.g. Bateman & Fonagy, 1999; Hoffman & McGlashan, 2003), the LO u I s E N E w M AN completed undergraduate degrees in psychology and medicine in 1988 and post-graduate studies in psychiatry and child psychiatry in Her clinical practice has, since that time, been predominantly with high-risk populations and specifically with mothers with borderline personality disorders and their infants. Dr Newman has trained in the assessment of attachment in infants and adults and achieved reliabilities in both the SSP and AAI. She has been used as a consultant to child protection services and government departments in the area of early childhood development, assessment of parenting capacity and childhood development, assessment of parenting capacity and child abuse. CAR o L I N E s T E v E N s o N is a Clinical Psychologist who was awarded her PhD in December Her main scientific contributions to date concern adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, for which she developed and tested the first successful psychological intervention programme. More recently, building upon her clinical experience working with children, adolescents and their families, she has begun collaborating with Dr Louise Newman (Director, NSW Institute of Psychiatry) on research on mother-infant attachment in Borderline Personality Disorder. CONTACT: Dr Caroline Stevenson,NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Locked Bag 7118, Paramatta BC NSW 2150, Australia. [ cstevenson@nswiop.nsw.edu.au] Clinical Child Psychology and Psychialry Copyright O 2005 SAGE Publications (London,Thousand Oaks and New Delhi) Vol lo(3): DOl: / Downloaded from ~ llp rfccp iaqpp.id corn al Ebsco Hosl temp an Janusv O 2005 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. Not for commercial use or unauthorized distribution

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