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Some Overview Comments with an Eye to the Future

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The many efforts to understand borderline personality disorder’s (BPD) development in childhood and adolescence evidenced in this book testify to the ongoing interest in this subject, the wide range of approaches, the many obstacles that researchers face, and to the major questions that remain. This chapter will explore three topics relevant to the future development of this field, i.e., the implications of BPD’s heritability, the identification of risk markers, and the potential to customize home environments that might derail BPD’s onset. This chapter will develop the thesis that the time has come to conduct a large scale prospective study of children at risk for developing BPD that tests potentially preventative interventions.

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The author is indebted to Dr. Thomas McGlashan for helping shape the discussion on risk markers.

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  1. Borderline Center for Treatment, Research, and Training, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Mail Stop 312, Belmont, MA, 02478, USA

    John G. Gunderson

  2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    John G. Gunderson

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  1. Dept. Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

    Carla Sharp

  2. Dept. Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

    Jennifer L. Tackett

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Gunderson, J.G. (2014). Some Overview Comments with an Eye to the Future. 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_29

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