Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents With NSSI - An Open Pilot Study

Karolinska Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury

Treatments: Behavioral: Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02326012

2014/1-31/3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary aim is to investigate the effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents (ERITA) who self-harm.

Enrollment: 17 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• a primary diagnosis of NSSI as defined by DSM-5 Section 3
• < 1 NSSI episode during the past month
• at least one parent needs to commit to participate in the parent program

Exclusion criteria

• bipolar disorder I or primary psychosis
• severe suicidal ideation
• ongoing substance dependence
• Insertion/withdrawal of psychopharmacological substances within two months prior to the treatment
• other acute primary axis I diagnosis (e.g. anorexia nervosa) that demand treatment in first hand
• current life circumstances that would hinder the treatment (i.e. ongoing domestic abuse)
• insufficient Swedish language skills
• Cocurrent treatment with Mentalization based therapy (MBT) or Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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17 participants in 1 patient group

Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents