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Outcome of Crisis Intervention for Subjects With Borderline Personality Disorder or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

NCT00269139 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2006-02-20

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Summary

Dr. Laddis will test a hypothesis about the nature and the management of behavioral crises in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The term "behavioral crisis" is used strictly for periods of uncontrollable urges to repeat mental or outward activity, e.g., flashbacks, cutting, binging on food, drugs or sex, with no intervals to rethink one's priorities or to consider others' direction.

The clinical hypothesis states, in two steps, that:

1. the perception of a life crisis precedes and then underlies every behavioral crisis;
2. the behavioral crisis resolves promptly and all symptoms end if the clinicians engage the patient about his management of the life crisis that underlies the symptoms.

Conditions

  • Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Crisis resolution

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Laddis, Andreas, M.D.

    lead INDIV

Principal Investigators

  • Andreas Laddis, MD · Cape Cod and Islands Community Mental Health Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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