The emergence of personality disorder traits in adolescents who deliberately self harm and the potential for using a mentalisation based treatment approach as an early intervention for such individuals: a randomised controlled trial

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN95266816

Enrollment

Registered

2007-12-13

Start date

2008-01-14

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2015-01-13

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Conditions

Self harm/borderline personality traits Mental and Behavioural Disorders Personality disorder

Interventions

Two treatments: mentalisation based treatment measured against treatment as usual. MBT Treatment programme: The treatment will take three forms: 1. Individual once weekly psychotherapy sessions usin

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Young people between the ages of 13 - 18 years with a history of self harm 2. Self harm will be defined as any act performed with the intention to harm themselves, e.g. cutting, burning, overdose 3. Eating disorders will only be included if accompanied by another form of self harm as well

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Learning disability 2. Autism and Asperger's 3. Psychosis

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The assessment battery will consist of the following assessments for the identified adolescent: 1. Mood and Feelings Questionnaire 2. Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) 3. Childhood Inventory of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) Borderline Personality Disorder (CI-BPD) 4. The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test 5. Trust game and questionnaire 7. Intelligence Quotient (IQ) 8. Self Harming Inventory Every 3 months the self harm inventory and the mood and feelings questionnaire will be re-adminstered. Outcome/Post-treatment measures: 1. Mood and Feelings Questionnaire 2. Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) 3. Childhood Inventory of DSM-IV Borderline Personality Disorder (CI-BPD) 4. The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test 5. Social Functioning 6. Self-harming Inventory	—

Measure

Time frame

The assessment battery will consist of the following assessments for the identified adolescent: 1. Mood and Feelings Questionnaire 2. Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) 3. Childhood Inventory of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) Borderline Personality Disorder (CI-BPD) 4. The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test 5. Trust game and questionnaire 7. Intelligence Quotient (IQ) 8. Self Harming Inventory Every 3 months the self harm inventory and the mood and feelings questionnaire will be re-adminstered. Outcome/Post-treatment measures: 1. Mood and Feelings Questionnaire 2. Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) 3. Childhood Inventory of DSM-IV Borderline Personality Disorder (CI-BPD) 4. The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test 5. Social Functioning 6. Self-harming Inventory

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
In addition the following assessments will be given to the adolescents? parent or guardian: 1. Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III) 2. Family assessment tool (Systemic Inventory of Change [STIC]) 3. The Reading the mind in the Eyes Test At the end of the study the following measures will be given to the parents. In addition the following assessments will be given to the adolescents? parent or guardian: 1. MCMI-III 2. Family assessment tool 3. The Reading the mind in the Eyes Test	—

Measure

Time frame

In addition the following assessments will be given to the adolescents? parent or guardian: 1. Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III) 2. Family assessment tool (Systemic Inventory of Change [STIC]) 3. The Reading the mind in the Eyes Test At the end of the study the following measures will be given to the parents. In addition the following assessments will be given to the adolescents? parent or guardian: 1. MCMI-III 2. Family assessment tool 3. The Reading the mind in the Eyes Test

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Countries

United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed

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