Personality disorder Personality disorders
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Clients aged 16 and older Diagnosed with a personality disorder according to the criteria of the DSM-diagnoses of Personality Disorder, established with the STIP-5 (Hutsebaut et al., 2015) or SCID-5PA history of early childhood trauma, determined with The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire Short Form (CTQ-SF; D. P. Bernstein & Fink, 1998).
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: The questionnaires will be provided in Dutch and English: patients who do not master Dutch / English sufficiently for filling out the questionnaire cannot fill participate in the research. A patient who presents factors or behaviour that disrupts participation in the group and undermines treatment will be excluded from this study. Examples of such factors are: if a patient is in crisis such as acute suicidality, a neurocognitive disorder has been diagnosed, there is a substance use disorder present which requires clinical detoxification, intelligence appears to interfere with treatment.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The main parameter of this study is emotion regulation. Emotion regulation is examined with the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale – Short Form (DERS-SF). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Second parameters are body awareness, self-soothing, PTSD-symptoms, personality functioning. Body awareness is examined with the MAIA-2. The Soothing Receptivity Scale (SRS) is used to examine self-soothing abilities. The PTSD-checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) is used to assess the PTSD-symptoms. The Level of Personality Functioning Scale-Brief Form 2.0 (LPFS-BF 2.0) is used to map out personality functioning. The patients’ perception of the intervention is explored through qualitative interviews. | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Contacts
Universiteit van Tilburg