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Isolating Mechanisms in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Countering Emotional Behaviors Module from Unified Protocol for Borderline Personality Disorder. Completed, enrolled 8 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a commonly occurring, severe, and costly condition that interferes greatly with quality of life. Considerable comorbidity with other disorders and existing multicomponent treatments with largely untested putative mechanisms of action represent obstacles for effective dissemination of BPD treatment; in light of this gap, the purpose of the present study is to isolate the effects of individual treatment components on putative mechanisms implicated in both BPD. This study will answer important theoretical questions about the mechanism of treatment change, and might lead to more efficacious, cost-effective, and easily disseminable treatment strategies for BPD, a severe and understudied disorder.
Study Details
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Interventions
This is a 4-week behavioral treatment that teaches patients to counter problematic emotional avoidance by approaching behaviors and situations that may bring up strong emotions in the short-term, but prevent interfering emotional difficulties in the long-term.