NCT03861858

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents at Rutgers University

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 56 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-02
• Primary completion: 2023-10-31
• Completion: 2023-10-31
• First posted: 2019-03-04
• Last updated: 2024-07-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States