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Investigating pathways to care in young people (14-25) with Borderline Personality Disorder features
This PhD thesis set out to understand how young people aged 14 to 25 with features of borderline personality disorder (BPD) move through mental health services, and why that matters given how often their needs go unrecognised. The author conducted a broad literature review drawing on several databases, covering research from 1938 to 2026, and combined it with four empirical papers. Methods included a clinical case study of four participants from the Pathways Study, who had all met criteria for neurodivergence without a diagnosis, and an interpretative phenomenological analysis of seven participants' accounts of care within the BRIDGE feasibility randomised controlled trial, which randomised 25 young people to a brief intensive intervention or usual services. Findings described barriers including stigma, poor individualised care, and lack of continuity, and showed missed opportunities for identifying BPD features. The thesis also argues for lived experience input from experts by experience. The thesis does not report the case study's findings in numerical terms, and the sample sizes are small. The author's dual role as researcher and expert by experience is acknowledged as a potential source of bias.
The record
- Alert topic
- getting your PhD through research papers published
- Authors
- Kirsty Margaret Collins
- Published in
- Enlighten: Theses (The University of Glasgow) · 2026
- DOI
- 10.5525/gla.thesis.86266
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- Added to the vault
- 2026-11-12
- Link last checked
- 2026-11-12
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