First Empirical Evaluation of Outcomes for Mentalization-Based Group Therapy for Adolescents With BPD

Sune Bo; Carla Sharp; Emma Beck; Jesper Pedersen; Matthias Gondan; Erik Simonsen

doi:10.1037/per0000210

First Empirical Evaluation of Outcomes for Mentalization-Based Group Therapy for Adolescents With BPD

Sune Bo, Carla Sharp, Emma Beck, Jesper Pedersen, Matthias Gondan, Erik Simonsen

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Abstract

Adolescent borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a devastating disorder, and it is essential to identify and treat the disorder in its early course. A total of 34 female Danish adolescents between 15 and 18 years old participated in 1 year of structured mentalization-based group therapy. Twenty-five adolescents completed the study, of which the majority (23) displayed improvement regarding borderline symptoms, depression, self-harm, peer-attachment, parent-attachment, mentalizing, and general psychopathology. Enhanced trust in peers and parents in combination with improved mentalizing capacity was associated with greater decline in borderline symptoms, thereby pointing to a candidate mechanism responsible for the efficacy of the treatment. The current study provides a promising rationale for the further development and evaluation of group-format mentalization-based treatment for adolescents with borderline traits.

Original language	Danish
Journal	Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
Volume	8
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	396-401
Number of pages	6
ISSN	1949-2715
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000210
Publication status	Published - Oct 2017

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