Psychological treatment of Personality Disorders: A multi-centered randomised controlled trial on the (cost-)effectiveness of Schema-Focused Therapy.
- Conditions
- Schema-Focused Therapy (SFT) and Treatment as Usual (TAU)
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 250
Inclusion Criteria
250 outpatients of mental health institutes in the Netherlands with a cluster-C PD, a
narcissistic, histrionic or paranoid PD as defined by DSM-IV criteria as first diagnosis.
Exclusion Criteria
1. IQ less than 80;
2. Problems with Dutch language (talking, reading, writing);
3. Borderline, antisocial, schizoid, schizotypal personality disorder;
4. Psychotic or bipolar disorder on axis-I, DSM-IV;
5. Substance dependence needing clinical detoxification (after detoxification this is no longer an exclusion criterion);
6. Immediate suicide risk.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Presence vs. absence of Personality Disorder(s) (assessed with SCID-2 and ADP-IV (intermediate)).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Axis-1 diagnoses (assessed with the SCID-1.);<br>2. General psychopathological symptoms (assessed with the SCL-90.);<br>3. PD-related schemas and beliefs<br>(assessed with the Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ) and the PD-Belief Questionnaire (PDBQ, Arntz et al., 2004)); 4. Social functioning will be assessed with the WSAS;<br>5. Independent raters will assess global functioning with the GAF Scale (DSM-IV);Quality of Life will be assessed with the 6. WHOQOL and the EuroQol.