A schema-focused approach to group psychotherapy for outpatients with borderline personality disorder: A randomized controlled trial |
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Authors: | Joan M. Farrell Ida A. Shaw |
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Affiliation: | a Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Center for Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment & Research, Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital, 2601 Cold Spring Road, Indianapolis, IN 46222, USA b BASE Consulting Group, LLC, 6551 Carrollton Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220, USA |
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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. |
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Keywords: | Borderline personality disorder Schema-focused therapy Schema therapy Cognitive behavioral therapy Group psychotherapy |
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