{"title":"Psychosocial Functioning over Time","authors":"M. Zanarini","doi":"10.1093/med-psych/9780195370607.003.0010","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Social and vocational functioning are extremely important outcomes. This chapter details the findings of four sub-studies concerning this area. In all of these studies, borderline patients showed areas of strength. However, remitted borderline patients functioned better than non-remitted borderline patients at six-year follow-up, while the borderline patients on disability functioned more poorly than borderline patients never on disability at 10-year follow-up. Believing that we had been too optimistic about the psychosocial functioning of borderline patients early in the study, we changed the definition to include full-time work or school at 10-year follow-up. This change resulted in 60% rather than 82% achieving this goal. Finally, we compared the rates of marriage and being a parent of recovered and non-recovered borderline patients at 16-year follow-up, finding that recovered borderline patients were more likely to achieve stability in these areas.","PeriodicalId":275647,"journal":{"name":"In the Fullness of Time","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"In the Fullness of Time","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780195370607.003.0010","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Social and vocational functioning are extremely important outcomes. This chapter details the findings of four sub-studies concerning this area. In all of these studies, borderline patients showed areas of strength. However, remitted borderline patients functioned better than non-remitted borderline patients at six-year follow-up, while the borderline patients on disability functioned more poorly than borderline patients never on disability at 10-year follow-up. Believing that we had been too optimistic about the psychosocial functioning of borderline patients early in the study, we changed the definition to include full-time work or school at 10-year follow-up. This change resulted in 60% rather than 82% achieving this goal. Finally, we compared the rates of marriage and being a parent of recovered and non-recovered borderline patients at 16-year follow-up, finding that recovered borderline patients were more likely to achieve stability in these areas.