Coping, suicidalité et trouble de personnalité limite à l'adolescence

Borderline personality disorder is the most important independent suicidal risk factor during adolescence. Recently, the evaluation of suicidal risk has been studied in a different manner, with a greater emphasis on protective factors including coping strategies. This article has a dual purpose. Firstly, from the study of recent literature data, the article stresses the interest of studying and developing coping strategies for suicidal adolescents with borderline personality disorder. Secondly, the preliminary results of a study focused on the coping profile of suicidal adolescents with borderline personality disorder are described. According to results applicable to parts of the complete sample, suicidal adolescents have a different coping profile depending on whether or not they suffer from a borderline personality disorder. Through a theoretical and innovative model integrating both risk and protective factors applied to the results of the present study, developing the productive coping strategies (protective factor) of these adolescents could decrease the intensity of certain dimensions (such as emotional instability and impulsivity) of the borderline personality disorder construct (vulnerability factor) and thus suicidal risk.