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Despite the fact that BPD typically emerges in adolescence, it was not until the fourth edition of the DSM that the diagnosis of BPD in youth was permitted. Despite this allowance, diagnosing youth with BPD has engendered a great deal of reluctance. The steady emergence of a strong empirical basis for the construct of juvenile BPD in addition to the development of appropriate intervention to address the problems associated ith juvenile BPD is now diminishing this reluctance. In this volume we have brought together many researchers and clinicians who have spearheaded this transformation in the field, which, in turn, now enables us to characterize juvenile BPD not as a diagnosis that dare not speak its name, but as an idea whose time has come. In this introductory chapter we comment on the unprecedented increase in research activity around the topic of juvenile BPD and introduce each of the contributions in this volume.
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Sharp, C., Tackett, J.L. (2014). Introduction: An Idea Whose Time Has Come. In: Sharp, C., Tackett, J. (eds) Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0591-1_1
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