Adapted Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents With Deliberate Self-Harm: A Pre-post Observational Study

NCT02988037•University of Ottawa

Summary

The investigators conducted a pre-post naturalistic study regarding changes observed associated with a 15-week course of an adapted form of dialectical behaviour therapy for adolescents. We measured frequency of self-harm prior to treatment and after treatment using the Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview. We also measured changes using the Suicide Ideation Questionnaire, Life Problems Inventory, Resiliency Scale for Children and Adolescents.

Eligibility

Age

15 - 18 years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion Criteria

•features of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and recent history of self-injurious thoughts or behaviours.
•1. meeting criteria for BPD or for subsyndromal variants of BPD, and (2) self-injurious thoughts and behaviours defined as: (a) a score \> 30 on the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire (SIQ) OR (b) Deliberate Self-harm in the 4 months prior to treatment

Exclusion Criteria

•severe substance use (where residential treatment would be indicated), florid psychosis and developmental delay

Key Dates

Start Date

September 1, 2012

Primary Completion Date

September 1, 2016

Completion Date

September 1, 2016

Last Updated

December 12, 2016

Enrollment

ACTUAL participants

Conditions

Deliberate Self HarmBorderline Personality Disorder

Interventions

A-DBT-A

BEHAVIORAL

Internal Family Systems Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

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RECRUITINGNA

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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RECRUITINGNA

NEUROIMAGING OF ADOLESCENT BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER WITH AND WITHOUT POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

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Data Source & Attribution

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Adapted Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents With Deliberate Self-Harm: A Pre-post Observational Study

Inclusion Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

Internal Family Systems Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

Short Integrative And Neurocognitive Therapy For Young Adults With Borderline Personality Disorder

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