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Personality Disorder

Posted by sacha on March 27th, 2008 | Categorized as General Forum, Research | 298 views and 2 Comments

I am currently writing a social work dissertation and I have looked at the definition of Personality Disorder (PD). I wonder if someone has specifically written about PD and TCKs or ATCKs. I have found several journals on migration, mental health, stress and so forth but nothing specifically written about PD and TCK s.

Any help is much appreciated

Sachaxx

 

 

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Sacha

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2 Responses to “Personality Disorder”

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    aradhana Says:
    April 5th, 2008 at 10:18 am

    Sachaxx,

    I’ve been looking for information about the same topic. Not for school but my own personal interest.

    I have a PD - Borderline Personality Disorder that my therapist attribute to my TCK upbringing such as loosing “home” at an early age, the constant moving and repeated goodbyes, as well as felling like I was the odd one out.

    Also the many, if not all of my “trigger” that causes my emotions to go into overdrive are directly related to being a TCK, specifically in regards to my cultural identity or having to explain where I am from.

    It would be very interesting and helpful to understand the psychological effects of TCK experiences.

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    magda Says:
    April 15th, 2008 at 12:24 am

    Hi there,
    I just joined this site and read your comment with great interest. I’m currently living in Beijing and doing a program in Mental Health Counseling that is offered online through the University of Massachusetts Boston.

    From what I understand from the literature, TCKs have been a very under-researched group. Issues that directly impact our mental well-being such as identity formation and grief have not been reflected in any reserach papers (at least so far I have not been able to find any). It seems also that clinical outcome studies on psychotherapy with adolescents still have a long way to go, let alone specifically for TCKs. I guess given the TCKs transient life styles plus the fact that some issues may be dealt with much later in adult life makes it really hard for researchers to investigate.

    I completely agree with you that there is a real need for research to understand the psychological effects of TCK experiences.

    Magda

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