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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Farrell, Joan M
• Shaw, Ida A
• Webber, Michael A

Titel

A schema-focused approach to group psychotherapy for outpatients with borderline personality disorder: A randomized controlled trial

Ist Teil von

• Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry, 2009-06, Vol.40 (2), p.317-328

Ort / Verlag

Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract This study tests the effectiveness of adding an eight-month, thirty-session schema-focused therapy (SFT) group to treatment-as-usual (TAU) individual psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder (BPD). Patients ( N = 32) were randomly assigned to SFT-TAU and TAU alone. Dropout was 0% SFT, 25% TAU. Significant reductions in BPD symptoms and global severity of psychiatric symptoms, and improved global functioning with large treatment effect sizes were found in the SFT-TAU group. At the end of treatment, 94% of SFT-TAU compared to 16% of TAU no longer met BPD diagnosis criteria ( p < .001). This study supports group SFT as an effective treatment for BPD that leads to recovery and improved overall functioning.