Directions: Pick one current, peer-reviewed research article (within the last ten years) regarding some topic in Abnormal Psych. Make sure this is original research; not a meta-analysis or a review of...

Running Head: BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN ADOLESCENTS    1
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Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents
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Table of Contents
Introduction    3
About Article    3
Hypothesis of the Study    4
Method of Testing Hypothesis    4
Results of the Study    5
Implication of the Study in Diagnosing and Treating the Psychological Disorder    6
Critical Analysis of the Article    7
Conclusion    7
References    9
Introduction
    Every human being has unique personality. As noted by Comer and Comer (2018), personality can be defined as the set of characteristics, which affects the emotion, thought, behavior and interaction of the individual. It has been often observed that few individuals have struggle with psychological issue called personality disorder. As mentioned by Bateman, Gunderson, and Mulder (2015), personality disorder can be defined as the psychological disorder, which can lead to unhealthy pattern of behaving, functioning, and thinking.
Personality disorder can be of many types such as avoidant personality disorder, paranoid personality disorder, borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder (Comer, 2018). The topic chosen for the article review is borderline personality disorder in adolescent. Borderline personality disorder can be defined as personality disorder, which is associated with the self-harming traits. It has been seen that individual with this disorder tries to harm themselves at many instances. Thus, proper treatment and early diagnosis is needed.
About Article
    The article selected for the study is “Inpatient adolescents with borderline personality disorder features: Identity diffusion and narrative incoherence.” This article focussed on the borderline personality disorder. As suggested by Paris (2018), borderline personality disorder is one of the severe personality disorders, which has poor diagnosis. This is the reason most of the researchers nowadays emphasizes on the evaluation on the borderline personality disorder in the adolescence so that disorder can be identified, targeted and treated over the period.
As mentioned by Gunderson, Herpertz, Skodol, Torgersen and Zanarini (2018), borderline personality disorder can be defined as personality disorder, which consists of repeated lack of stability in interpersonal relationship, image about self, and mood followed by impulsive behavior. These characteristics bring instability in the relationship of the individual suffering from the disorder. The adolescent suffering from the borderline personality disorder displays disturbance of their self.
This disturbance can manifest in different ways in adolescents. It has been observed that the adolescents suffering from the borderline personality disorder struggles with high rate of social issues such as suicide, drug addiction, poor social interaction, and crime (Comer, 2018). The aim of the current research analysis was to examine the relationship between different disturbed manifestation of self and borderline features in inpatient adolescents by observing identity diffusion and narrative coherence.
Hypothesis of the Study
The disturbance, which is observed in individual, might be because of identity diffusion or due to narrative coherence. The high levels of identity diffusion and low levels of narrative coherence can be related to borderline personality disorder.
Method of Testing Hypothesis
To prove the hypothesis, seventy adolescents from a private tertiary care, in-patient treatment facility are selected for the...