Group therapy for helping teens with personality disorders
- Conditions
- Personality disordersMental and Behavioural Disorders
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN64626533
- Lead Sponsor
- Servicio Riojano de Salud
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
1. Eligible participants aged 14–18 years will be receiving routine treatment and either meet criteria for a PD as diagnosed by trained psychiatrists or clinical psychologists through the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM–IV Personality Disorders (SCID–II) (First et al., 1995).
2. Participants will also have to show interpersonal or social problems as notified in case manager reports; for instance, difficulties with relatives, friends, or classmates, problems in sustaining intimate bonds or feeling chronically excluded from groups. The case managers of eligible patients will be consulted about whether potential participants are suitable for inclusion in the study. Upon referral, suitable participants will be invited to participate in the trial.
1. Non-Spanish-speaking
2. Full or sub-threshold antisocial PD
3. Significant substance use defined as drinking or engaging in drug use to the point of intoxication, three or more times per week
4. High risk of suicide, defined as the presence of a current plan and/or intent to commit suicide
5. Severe depression, bipolar disorder, and/or psychosis
6. Impaired intellectual functioning, defined as Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–V Full–Scale IQ scores < 75
7. Major neurological illness
8. Any other mental disorder than PD as primary diagnosis
9. Lacking capacity for consent to research.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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