dc.contributor.author | Barnicot, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Gonzalez, R | |
dc.contributor.author | McCabe, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Priebe, S | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-21T09:39:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-04-21 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background and Objectives: Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) trains participants to use
behavioural skills for managing their emotions. The study aimed to evaluate whether skills
use is associated with positive treatment outcomes independently of treatment processes that
are common across different therapeutic models.
Method: Use of the DBT skills and three common treatment processes (therapeutic alliance,
treatment credibility and self-efficacy) were assessed every 2 months for a year in 70
individuals with borderline personality disorder receiving DBT. Mixed-multilevel modelling
was used to determine the association of these factors with frequency of self-harm and with
treatment dropout.
Results: Participants who used the skills less often at any timepoint were more likely to drop
out of DBT in the subsequent two months, independently of their self-efficacy, therapeutic
alliance or perceived treatment credibility. More frequent use of the DBT skills and higher
self-efficacy were each independently associated with less frequent concurrent self-harm.
Treatment credibility and the alliance were not independently associated with self-harm or
treatment dropout.
Limitations: The skills use measure could not be applied to a control group who did not
receive DBT. The sample size was insufficient for structural equation modelling.
Conclusion: Practising the DBT skills and building an increased sense of self-efficacy may
be important and partially independent treatment processes in dialectical behaviour therapy.
However, the direction of the association between these variables and self-harm requires
further evaluation. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This paper presents independent research funded by a National Institute for Health Research
(NIHR) Doctoral Research Fellowship grant to the first author KB, reference DRF-2009-02-
11. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the
NIHR or the Department of Health. All authors declare no conflicts of interest. Special thanks
to Nyla Bhatti, Naomi Fearns, Mark Savill and Stamatina Marougka whose help with data
collection was invaluable, and to Shannon O’Neill and Beth Ford for their important role in
designing the DBT Skills Questionnaire. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 52, pp. 147–156 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jbtep.2016.04.006 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/21166 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher policy | en_GB |
dc.subject | personality disorder | en_GB |
dc.subject | behavior therapy | en_GB |
dc.subject | deliberate self-harm | en_GB |
dc.title | Skills use and common treatment processes in dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0005-7916 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record. | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1873-7943 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry | en_GB |