Parental Personality Disorder and Its Effects on Children: A Review of Current Literature

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A review is made of research connecting personality disorder in parents to child maltreatment and/or child mental health problems. Research studies indicate that certain personality disorders, notably Antisocial Personality Disorder and Borderline and Narcissistic personality disorders in parents show relationships to both parental behavior and ensuing childhood problems. However, parental personality disorders can also affect children's behavior through genetic transmission, hence while parental personality disorders are risk flags in custody assessments, parental behavior toward the child remains an essential target of assessment.View full textDownload full textKEYWORDSpersonality disorder, custodyRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15379418.2011.620928