The ISTFP adolescent committee

Dear Colleagues,

The ISTFP established the Adolescent Committee to develop a treatment for adolescents with various personality pathologies. Since the DSM diagnostic system officially recognized the diagnosis of BPD in adolescence and considering the unique developmental challenges of this stage (puberty, peer and love relationships, sexuality, aggression, and narcissism), a group of ISTFP members (L. Normandin, K. Ensink, A. Weiner, and Otto F. Kernberg) published the first edition of a TFP-A manual (Normandin et al., 2021). The manual preserves the core techniques and strategies of TFP for adults but includes specific adaptations for working with parents and addressing developmental issues.

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Lina Normandin, Ph.D.

Dr. Lina Normandin is a professor of psychology at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada and clinical psychologist working with children, adolescents and adults. Her main research themes are in child abuse, adolescent personality disorders and psychotherapy processes such as countertransference. She is an accredited trainer and supervisor in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP and TFP-A) for personality disorders at the New York Personality Disorders Institute of Weill-Cornell University.