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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Borderline Personality Disorder Mental Disorders Personality Disorders

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

Parenting Skills for Mothers with BPD

Behavioral

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.

Primary outcomes

written feedback

Time frame: 12 weeks

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

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Freie Universität Berlin

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Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2015
Primary completion: 2015
Study completion: 2015
First posted: Oct 17, 2016
Registry last updated: Oct 17, 2016

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