Parenting Skills for Mothers With Borderline Personality Disorder: A Newly Developed Group Training Program

Freie Universität Berlin15 enrolled

Overview

N=15 mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder who had young children (aged 0-6 years) participated in a 12-week training program. To estimate the participants' impairment, parental stress and psychological distress were assessed before the training. After the training, participants and trainers were asked to provide feedback regarding the valuation of and the changes due to the training.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Borderline Personality Disorder

Interventions

Parenting Skills for Mothers with BPDBEHAVIORAL

The cognitive-behavioral Group Training for mothers with BPD consists of 12 weekly sessions promoting parenting skills including primary needs of children, stress and stress management, dealing with conflicts, mindfulness, emotion regulation, routine and flexibility, the role of the body in parenting, basic assumptions about parenting, and self-care.

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Borderline diagnosis in mothers * Infants between 6 months and 6 years * Mothers and their children must be in regular contact with each other Exclusion Criteria: * Acute child endangerment * Maternal acute suicidality

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

written feedback

the participants provide written feedback regarding the changes due to the parental skills training

Time frame: 12 weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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