Personality Disorders in Adolescence: Label or Opportunity?

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 445-451

  Hutsebaut, Joost ^a   Feenstra, Dine J ^b,c   Luyten, Patrick ^b,d,e  

^a MBT Netherlands ^*  (Netherlands)

^b Viersprong Institute for Studies on Personality Disorders (VISPD)   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Personality disorder; Personality pathology; Treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889643107     PISSN: 09695893     EISSN: 14682850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cpsp.12052     Document Type: Note

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