Table of Contents
- 1 How does borderline personality disorder affect parental care?
- 2 How does personality disorders affect parenting?
- 3 Do mothers with borderline personality disorder have trouble parenting?
- 4 What are the effects of borderline personality disorder (BPD) on children?
- 5 How do mothers with BPD interact with their infants?
How does borderline personality disorder affect parental care?
Parents with high BPD features reported significantly greater parenting stress, distress, difficult child and difficult parent-child relationships compared to those with low BPD features, with medium to large effect sizes observed.
How does personality disorders affect parenting?
Parents with personality disorder may also struggle with expressing appropriate empathic responses, fluctuations in mental wellbeing, difficulty maintaining a stable and safe environment, role confusion, managing interpersonal conflict, engaging in parenting skills and demonstrating self-efficacy [8].
Can BPD be caused by emotional neglect?
Linehan’s model of BPD includes emotional invalidation as one risk factor, and there is some strong evidence of a connection between childhood maltreatment and BPD (various forms of maltreatment, such as emotional neglect and physical abuse, are inherently invalidating of emotions).
Do mothers with borderline personality disorder have trouble parenting?
Across the age range, these studies showed that mothers with BPD were parenting in the context of many factors that are known to put parenting and children’s mental health at risk.
What are the effects of borderline personality disorder (BPD) on children?
Outcomes for children are poor compared with both children of healthy mothers, and mothers with other disorders. Infants of mothers with BPD have poorer interactions with their mother (eg, less positive affect and vocalising, more dazed looks and looks away).
Is parental personality disorder a risk to child development?
I review some of the evidence that parental personality disorder represents a risk to child development, in terms of both transmission of genetic vulnerability and the environmental stress of living with a parent who has a personality disorder that negatively affects their parenting capacities.
How do mothers with BPD interact with their infants?
White et al 18 studied mothers with BPD, major depressive disorder (MDD) and healthy controls, in interaction with their 3-month-old infants. Mothers with BPD smiled less, touched and imitated their infants less and played fewer games with their babies.