Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescence - Psychotherapy in the Cognitive Behavioral Approach Thamyres Silverio Figueiredo

Abstract

Being a teenager is, in most cases, idealized in different ways by young people and the media contributes significantly to the representation of this ideal: being young, transgressing and having no limits. Thus, the intergenerational barriers increasingly decrease, which leaves the adolescent in a situation of helplessness, most of the time without an adult figure to identify himself. In addition, it is a time marked by many biological, psychological and social transformations. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is linked to the current context, in view of this contemporary malaise, marked by an increasingly competitive, individualistic and narcissistic culture. As a consequence, there is the "uprooting" of the human being and an increase in his helplessness. In this bibliographic review article, adolescence and its changes, borderline personality disorder, will be addressed, in addition to addressing the forms of treatment within Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as a mechanism to alleviate symptoms, and consequently, the patient's suffering.