The Borderline Symptom List – Short Version (BSL-23) is a 23-item self-rating instrument for specific assessment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptomatology in adults (18+). The scale assesses DSM BPD diagnostic criteria (e.g., affective instability, recurrent suicidal behaviour, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behaviour, and transient dissociative symptoms) in addition to items that are based on borderline-typical empirical findings regarding self-criticism, problems with trust, emotional vulnerability, and proneness to shame, self-disgust, loneliness, and helplessness (Kleindienst et al., 2020).
STATUS at the 1st European Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Congress in Gdańsk
The 1st European DBT Congress was held from 8–10 May 2025 in the beautiful city of Gdańsk, Poland, which brought together leading minds in psychotherapy,