Cognitive Therapy Versus Supportive Therapy in Borderline Personality Disorder
- Conditions
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Registration Number
- NCT00131781
- Lead Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
- Brief Summary
This is a randomised trial comparing cognitive therapy and supportive therapy administered along one year in borderline personality disorder. The follow-up is one year after treatments end.
The therapists were the same in the two groups. Patients received one session a week during six months and one session every two weeks during the next six months
- Detailed Description
* Cognitive Therapy
* Structured session
* Conceptualization of the case with the patient
* Cognitive methods
* Guided discovery of the schemas
* Work on life-scenarios
* From scenarios to schemas
* Empathic confrontation to the schemas
* Building new schemas (Core belief work-sheet)
* Affective methods: role playing
* Interpersonal methods: counter transference issues
* Behavioral experiment
* Problem solving
* Consolidation methods
* Patients and therapists had manuals
* Supportive Therapy
* Therapist: active listening (face to face)
* Empathy
* Unconditional positive regard
* Reformulation and clarification
* Reflection of the patient's feelings
* Reassurance
* Therapist emphasizes the importance to ventilate problems
* Therapist answers some factual questions
* Therapist politely ignore or refuse requests for advice and directive attitudes
* Therapist demonstrates warmth and genuineness
* Patients and therapists had manuals
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 70
- DSM-4 DIBR >=8 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Diagnostic inventory for borderline-revised)
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Clinical Global Impression (CGI): Improvement (1-7): score 3 ( a little better) associated with a hopelessness scale score < 8 (this means that the suicide risk is low)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Handicap (Sheehan) CGI severity and improvement Hamilton depression Beck Depression Inventory Hopelessness Young: Schema Questionnaire II Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition Personality Disorders Personality Questionnaire (SCID II PQ) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) (minimult) Eysenck: impulsivity scale Checklist: impulsive risky behaviors Quality of life Time: Pre test, six months, post test and one year post treatment follow-up Therapeutic relationship evaluation scale (patients and therapists)
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Hopital Pierre Wertheimer
🇫🇷Bron, France
Hopital Pierre Wertheimer🇫🇷Bron, France