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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Søndergaard, Amanda Ark
• Juul, Sophie
• Poulsen, Stig
• Simonsen, Sebastian

Titel

Mentalizing the therapist - Therapist experiences with short-term mentalization-based therapy for borderline personality disorder: A qualitative study

Ist Teil von

• Frontiers in psychiatry, 2023-03, Vol.14, p.1088865

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Frontiers Media S.A

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT) was originally developed as a structured psychotherapy approach developed to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD) lasting up to 18 months in outpatient settings. However, a short-term (5 months) MBT program has recently been developed. No studies have investigated how MBT therapists experience the shift towards conducting short-term MBT for BPD. The objective of this study was to explore therapist experiences with conducting short-term MBT for outpatients with BPD in the Danish mental health services. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with seven therapists about their experiences with short-term MBT after a one-year pilot phase. The interviews were verbatim transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis. The following four major themes from the therapists' experiences with short-term MBT were found in the qualitative analysis: (1) , (2) , (3) , and (4) . Most therapists were overall reluctant towards changing from long-term to short-term MBT. These therapist experiences could inform implementation of short-term MBT in mental health settings in the future.