The emergence of personality disorder traits in adolescents who deliberately self harm and the potential for using a mentalisation based treatment approach as an early intervention for such individuals: a randomised controlled trial

Completed

Conditions: Self harm/borderline personality traits
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Personality disorder

Registration Number: ISRCTN95266816

Lead Sponsor: orth East London Mental Health Trust (NELMHT) (UK)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

1. Young people between the ages of 13 - 18 years with a history of self harm
2. Self harm will be defined as any act performed with the intention to harm themselves, e.g. cutting, burning, overdose
3. Eating disorders will only be included if accompanied by another form of self harm as well

Exclusion Criteria

1. Learning disability
2. Autism and Asperger's
3. Psychosis

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The assessment battery will consist of the following assessments for the identified adolescent: <br>1. Mood and Feelings Questionnaire<br>2. Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) <br>3. Childhood Inventory of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) Borderline Personality Disorder (CI-BPD) <br>4. The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test<br>5. Trust game and questionnaire <br>7. Intelligence Quotient (IQ) <br>8. Self Harming Inventory<br><br>Every 3 months the self harm inventory and the mood and feelings questionnaire will be re-adminstered. <br><br>Outcome/Post-treatment measures: <br>1. Mood and Feelings Questionnaire <br>2. Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI)<br>3. Childhood Inventory of DSM-IV Borderline Personality Disorder (CI-BPD) <br>4. The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test <br>5. Social Functioning <br>6. Self-harming Inventory

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
In addition the following assessments will be given to the adolescents? parent or guardian:<br>1. Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III)<br>2. Family assessment tool (Systemic Inventory of Change [STIC])<br>3. The Reading the mind in the Eyes Test<br><br>At the end of the study the following measures will be given to the parents. In addition the following assessments will be given to the adolescents? parent or guardian:<br>1. MCMI-III<br>2. Family assessment tool<br>3. The Reading the mind in the Eyes Test