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SPECIAL SECTION: PERSONALITY PATHOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN YOUTH: GUEST EDITORS: ROBERT D. LATZMAN AND LIZE VERBEKE

Are We Thinking about the Same Disorder? A Trifactor Model Approach to Understand Parents’ and Their Adolescents’ Reports of Borderline Personality Pathology

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Pages 487-498 | Received 07 Jul 2021, Accepted 23 Jan 2022, Published online: 22 Feb 2022

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