Foreword -- PART I. INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Introduction: An idea whose time has come -- Chapter 2. A History of Research on Borderline Personality Disorder in Childhood and Adolescence -- PART II. ISSUES IN CONCEPTUALIZATION AND ASSESSMENT -- Chapter 3. Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescence: Phenomenology and Construct Validity -- Chapter 4. The Underlying Factor Structure of DSM criteria in Youth BPD -- Chapter 5. Conceptualizing Youth Borderline Personality Disorder Within A PAI Framework -- Chapter 6. Conceptualizing Youth BPD within an MMPI-A Framework -- Chapter 7. Conceptualizing youth BPD within a DIPSI framework -- Chapter 8. Conceptualizing youth borderline personality disorder within a normative child personality framework -- PART III. ETIOLOGY AND CORE COMPONENTS -- Chapter 9. The Neurobiology of Adolescent-Onset Borderline Personality Disorder -- Chapter 10. Behavior genetic approaches to BPD -- Chapter 11. A Biosocial Model of BPD: Theory and Empirical Evidence -- Chapter 12. The Development of Emotional Cascades in Borderline Personality Disorder -- Chapter 13. Emotion Dysregulation among Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder -- Chapter 14. Self-injurious Behaviors in Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder -- Chapter 15. The social-cognitive basis of BPD: A theory of hypermentalizing -- PART IV. DEVELOPMENTAL COURSE AND PSYCHOSOCIAL CORRELATES -- Chapter 16. The Longitudinal Course of Borderline Personality Disorder in Youth -- Chapter 17. The Externalizing Pathway to Borderline Personality Disorder in Youth -- Chapter 18. Childhood Adversity and the Development of Borderline Personality Disorder -- Chapter 19. Parenting and the Development of  Borderline Personality Disorder -- Chapter 20. A Contemporary Interpersonal Model of Borderline Personality Development -- PART V. TREATMENT -- Chapter 21. Mentalization-based treatment for adolescents with borderline traits -- Chapter 22. Transference-focused Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders in Adolescence -- Chapter 23. HYPE: A Cognitive Analytic Therapy based prevention and early intervention program for borderline personality disorder -- Chapter 24. Dialectical Behavior Therapy -- Chapter 25. Working with the Parents of Children and Adolescents with BPD -- Chapter 26. Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) -- CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- Chapter 27. Borderline Personality Disorder and DSM 5.0: New Directions and Hopes for the Future -- Chapter 28. The likely classification of borderline personality disorder in adolescents in ICD-11 -- Chapter 29. Some Overview.

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