Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents at Rutgers University

NCT ID: NCT03861858

Last Updated: 2024-07-30

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 56 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-01-02
• Study Completion Date: 2023-10-31

Brief Summary

This project expands our existing psychological services clinic (the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Clinic at Rutgers University; DBT-RU) to include an adolescent treatment arm. Adolescents aged 13-20 and at least one caregiver will be recruited to participate in a six-month treatment study. Adolescents will be eligible to participate if they meet at least 3 criteria for borderline personality disorder, with one of those criteria being either impulsive behavior or recurrent self-harm behavior. Participants will be assessed at baseline, three-months (mid-treatment), six-months (post-treatment, and three-month follow-up.

Conditions

Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescence

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

DBT-A

The standard treatment to be delivered to all participants is DBT-A, which is a treatment model adapted from DBT. DBT-A is an adaptation for adolescents with emotion dysregulation and BPD features (Miller, Rathus, \& Linehan, 2007; Rathus \& Miller, 2015). DBT-A involves weekly individual therapy with the adolescent, weekly multifamily skills group in which adolescents and family members participate, as needed phone coaching, and weekly consultation team for the therapists.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

DBT-A

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

DBT-A is a multimodal therapy which consists of weekly individual therapy, weekly multifamily skills groups, as needed phone coaching, and weekly consultation team for the therapists.

Interventions

DBT-A

DBT-A is a multimodal therapy which consists of weekly individual therapy, weekly multifamily skills groups, as needed phone coaching, and weekly consultation team for the therapists.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Age 13-17 years or 18-20 if still living at home with parent.
• Agreement of at least one responsible adult parent/caregiver to participate in treatment.
• Agreement to take part in assessments, videotaping/audiotaping and coding of their sessions by research personnel.
• Agreement to pay for mental health services at the DBT- RU on a sliding scale, and to participate in research assessments as volunteers.
• Residence within commuting distance of clinic (< 45 minutes).
• Agreement to discontinue other forms of talk therapy for duration of DBT program (does not refer to AA/NA programs or psychotropic medication management).
• Exhibits dysregulation within the past six months as evidenced by 1) intentional self-injury and/or suicide attempt and/or 2) substance use disorder.
• Meets two additional criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD).

Exclusion Criteria

• Clients who need mental health services not available at the DBT- RU, such as treatment for schizophrenia or life-threatening anorexia, or who are currently obtaining optimum professional treatment that should not be ended.
• Non-English speaking.
• IQ < 70.
• Unable to understand research consent forms.
• Court-ordered to participate in treatment.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 13 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 20 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Shireen L. Rizvi, PhD, ABPP

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Rutgers University

Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

2018001563

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id