Guideline-Informed Treatment-Personality Disorders Youth: Exploring the feasibility of a generic early intervention program for emerging personality disorder in adolescents
- Conditions
- personality pathology10034726
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON51286
- Lead Sponsor
- Psychotherapeutisch Centrum De Viersprong (Halsteren)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 75
The targeted participants are adolescents with emerging symptoms of personality
pathology. Only participants between the ages of 12 and 18 years will be
included in the study. Participants for the study will be recruited after a
thorough screening for eligibility (see below). More specifically, participants
will be considered as eligible for the study when they meet the threshold for
personality disorders according to the alternative model for personality
disorders in DSM-5, meaning they should display moderate or more severe
impairments in personality functioning (score >= 2,) as assessed through the
Semi-structured Interview for Personality Functioning DSM-5 (STiP-5.1).
Exclusion criteria are: insufficient mastery of the Dutch language, severe risk
of suicide requiring immediate intervention and cognitive impairment (IQ <75).
The WAIS-IV will be administered when intellectual impairment is suspected.
Patients will also be excluded when they meet the DSM-5 criteria for (severe)
psychotic disorders, autism spectrum disorder and (severe) substance abuse.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Primary outcome is the severity of PD symptoms.</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>secondary outcomes are level of personality, social and academic functioning,<br /><br>severity of depressive- and anxiety symptoms, emotion dysregulation symptoms<br /><br>and the severity of suicidal ideation and behaviour. </p><br>