Understanding the Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder Among LGBTQ+ Individuals by Craig Rodriquez-Seijas, Ph.D.
Sexual and gender minority individuals are more frequently diagnosed with borderline personality disorder than their cisgender and heterosexual counterparts. In this talk, I will review an emerging program of research aimed at comprehensively understanding reasons for this disparity. From studies highlighting diagnostic disparities, examining clinician bias, investigating diagnostic criterion bias, and studying how psychometric properties relate to this disparity. I will end by elaborating how traditional personality, and psychopathology, theory fails underrepresented populations by virtue of the exclusion of understanding of sociopolitical context which is inextricable for theory, research, and treatment of borderline personality disorder among LGBTQ+ individuals.
This presentation also references the SPLAT Lab at U of M, which explores ways in which structural and interpersonal stigma are related to our understanding of mental health and wellbeing.
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