Clinical characteristics of older psychiatric inpatients with borderline personality disorder

Psychiatric Quarterly

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 29-40

  Trappler, Brian ^a   Backfield, Jill ^b,c  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Borderline personality disorder; Inpatients; Older patients

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0035291889     PISSN: 00332720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004805919123     Document Type: Article

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