Engagement complications of adolescents with borderline personality disorder: navigating through a zone of turbulence

Table 2 Engagement complications

Core categories	Dimensions
Activation of negative emotions	Appropriateness of treatment
	Therapeutic relationship
	Vicissitudes of treatment
Treatment interfering attitudes of adolescents	Hostility towards clinicians
	Splitting
	Apparent competency
	Experiential avoidance
Treatment interfering attitudes of parents	Hostility towards clinicians
	Failure to make the adolescent accountable
	Complicity in disengagement
	Insufficient support
Disengagement behaviours	Irregular attendance
	Instrumentalized treatment
	Self-treatment
	Hiding information
	Refusing or not using help

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