title: Effectiveness of dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder in an inpatient setting.
abstract: This study evaluates the effectiveness of dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) for borderline personality disorder (BPD) in an unselected, comorbid population seeking 3-month inpatient treatment. We studied 50 consecutively admitted individuals (44 women, six men) with BPD as defined by DSM-IV at three time points (at admission, at discharge, and at the 15-month follow-up). For the clinical diagnoses, we used the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) and compared the frequencies of comorbid axis I and axis II disorders at admission and at the 15-month follow-up. Overall, participants showed a high degree of comorbidity. Psychopathology was significantly reduced at post-treatment and at follow-up. Effect sizes for outcome measures were within the range of those of previous studies. Our findings support the notion that the results of the DBT efficacy research can be generalized to an inpatient setting and to patients with BPD disorder with high comorbidity.
authors.affiliation: Christoph-Dornier-Foundation for Clinical Psychology, Konstantin-Uhde-Strasse 4, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany. c.kroeger@tu-bs.de
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kröger
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Schweiger
authors.forename: Valerija
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sipos
authors.forename: Ruediger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arnold
authors.forename: Kai G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Kahl
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schunert
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rudolf
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Reinecker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016896:Treatment Outcome