title: Dialectical behavior therapy for clients with binge-eating disorder or bulimia nervosa and borderline personality disorder.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This treatment development study provides summary data for standard Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with minimal adaptation for 8 women with binge-eating disorder (BED) (5) or bulimia nervosa (BN) (3) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
  
  
  METHODS
  DBT involved 6 months of weekly skills group, individual DBT, therapist consultation team meeting, and 24-hour telephone coaching. Assessments were conducted at pre-, post-treatment, and 6-months follow-up and utilized standardized clinical interviews including the Eating Disorders Examination (EDE), Personality Disorders Exam, and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From pre- to post-treatment, effect sizes for objective binge eating, total EDE scores and global adjustment were large and for number of non-eating disorder axis I disorders and for suicidal behavior and self-injury were medium. From pre- to 6-months follow-up, effect sizes were large for all these outcomes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This provides promising pilot data for larger studies utilizing DBT for BED or BN and BPD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. chen@bsd.uchicago.edu
authors.forename: Eunice Y
authors.initials: EY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Matthews
authors.forename: Charese
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: Janice R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: Marsha Marie
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Linehan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D052018:Bulimia Nervosa / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000706:statistics & numerical data