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The Effectiveness of a Creative Arts en Psychomotor Therapy Intervention for People With Personality Disorders. From Negative Thinking to Positive Acting.

NCT06219122 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 37

Last updated 2025-07-01

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Summary

Mental health consists of the absence of mental disorders and the presence of mental well-being. However; mental health care currently focuses mainly on mental disorders and less on promoting mental well-being. And yet people with personality problems often score very low on well-being. In order to work on sustainable mental health, attention is needed for both mental complaints and well-being and this is achieved through promoting psychological adaptation.

Psychological adaptation is the process in which a person deals in a healthy way with their own needs, emotions and inner signals (such as stress) as well as the smaller or larger challenges in life. For people with personality problems psychological adaptation is also low, they mainly react in rigid patterns.

Creative arts and psychomotor therapies (CAPTS) are a non-verbal form of therapy in which various creative methods, such as theater, sports, dance, music and sports methods, are used to make contact with emotions and to practice healthier ways of dealing with them. This is very suitable for working on promoting psychological adaptivity, within a safe and playful context. It's about doing and experiencing, and discovering what works for you personally, more than talking and understanding.

That this is effective is endorsed by professionals and clients in mental health care, but scientific evidence is still scarce. That is why a specially developed, CAPTS module for people with personality problems will be investigated in a mixed methods design. We focus on both effectiveness and working mechanisms in a Multiple Baseline Single Case Experimental Design and a qualitative approach.

Conditions

  • Personality Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Creative arts and psychomotor therapies intervention for people with personality disorders

a Group (max of 9 participants) Creative arts and psychomotor therapies (CAPTS) intervention for people with personality disorders. Consisting of 10 sessions, where two CAPTS disciplines and therapists are represented each session. Each session lasts 90 minutes. Sessions are aimed at psychological adativity thru=ough the CAPTS. The sessions cover warming up in one of the CAPTS, short psycho education and a longer assigment focusing on the session goal. The first half of the interventions focusses mainly on listening to body signals, emotions and emotional needs and dealing in a healthy way with these. The second half will be more complex when dealing with challenges and adapting tot he context in a healthy way are goals of the sessions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Twente

    collaborator OTHER

  • Suzanne Haeyen

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christine de Vries, MSc · HAN University of Applied Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-01-31
Primary Completion
2024-11-30
Completion
2025-02-01

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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