Cognitive Therapy Versus Supportive Therapy in Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder Clinical Trial

Official title: Cognitive Therapy Versus Supportive Therapy in Borderline Personality Disorder

Status Active, not recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a randomised trial comparing cognitive therapy and supportive therapy administered along one year in borderline personality disorder. The follow-up is one year after treatments end.

The therapists were the same in the two groups. Patients received one session a week during six months and one session every two weeks during the next six months

Clinical Trial Description

• Cognitive Therapy

• Structured session

• Conceptualization of the case with the patient

• Cognitive methods

• Guided discovery of the schemas

• Work on life-scenarios

• From scenarios to schemas

• Empathic confrontation to the schemas

• Building new schemas (Core belief work-sheet)

• Affective methods: role playing

• Interpersonal methods: counter transference issues

• Behavioral experiment

• Problem solving

• Consolidation methods

• Patients and therapists had manuals

• Supportive Therapy

• Therapist: active listening (face to face)

• Empathy

• Unconditional positive regard

• Reformulation and clarification

• Reflection of the patient’s feelings

• Reassurance

• Therapist emphasizes the importance to ventilate problems

• Therapist answers some factual questions

• Therapist politely ignore or refuse requests for advice and directive attitudes

• Therapist demonstrates warmth and genuineness

• Patients and therapists had manuals ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Personality Disorders

• NCT number: NCT00131781
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Hospices Civils de Lyon
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 2001