July 19, 2023Open Access
Adolescent mentalizing and childhood emotional abuse: implications for depression, anxiety, and borderline personality disorder features
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Abstract
The findings are consistent with the mentalizing model of psychopathology and provide new evidence that Uncertainty/Confusion about mental states might be a critical mentalizing deficit that characterizes the associations between CEA and adolescent BPD features and depression and anxiety symptoms. Uncertainty/Confusion may be a transdiagnostic risk factor for adolescent psychological distress and dysfunction. We discuss the clinical implications.