Depression, Personality Disorder
Conditions
Keywords
adolescents, MBT, depression, emerging personality disorder
Brief summary
Mentalisation based treatment (MBT) for young people with co-morbid depression and emerging personality disorder will be more effective in a day/inpatient setting than treatment as usual.
Detailed description
Systematic literature review on outcomes with young people with depression and emerging personality disorder showed clear evidence that this group of young people are severely hampered and adult outcomes are strongly linked to both adult PD as well as adult psychiatric disturbance and lower levels of adult functioning. (Crawford et al, 2008; Kasen et al, 1999; Kasen et al, 2007; Lewinsohn et al, 1999) This argues very clearly for the need to diagnose young people presenting with co-morbid depression and emerging personality disorder in order to intervene and help these young people's struggles as it will prevent poor prognostic adult outcomes. There were no treatment programs that specifically focussed on the treatment of this co-morbid group in the literature. Several studies focussed on the treatment of depression alone and only one RCT focussed on the treatment of adolescent personality disorder (Chanen et al, 2007). In adult studies mentalization-based treatment programs were found to be effective ( as well as cost effective) in a day hospital setting for adults with personality disorder and depression (Bateman, et al, 2007) This study aims to conduct a control trial to test whether MBT will be more effective than TAU in this group. All cases will be tested on admission, at discharge and followed up at 2 years post discharge.
Interventions
OTHERMBT
The intervention consists of twice weekly individual MBT therapy, group therapy with an MBT focus and weekly MBFT, which is MBT for families. The treatment duration will be 6-8 weeks.
OTHERtreatment as usual
less intensive and structured psychotherapeutic program
Sponsors
North East London Foundation Trust
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
12 Years to 17 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* all young people who are admitted to Brookside adolescent unit between the ages 12 - 17 presenting with depression and emerging personality disorder will be eligible
Exclusion criteria
* Young people with autistic spectrum disorders or severe learning disabilities.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Global assessment of functioning | 2 years post discharge | Measures global functioning |
| global assessment of functioning | Average of 8 weeks | measures level of functioning |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| mood and feelings questionnaire | 2 years post discharge | Assesses mood in terms of number of depressive symptoms |
| Mood and feelings questionnaire | Within 1 week of admission | Assesses mood in terms of number of depressive symptoms |
Countries
United Kingdom
Contacts
Primary Contacttrudie I Rossouw, Dr
Outcome results
None listed