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- Title
FC24-07 - Identity exploration of borderline personality disorder
- Authors
Mac Farlane, D.
- Abstract
Introduction: Adolescents with confused identity are a highly challenging client group. They respond to their adverse psychosocial environment with a variety of life-threatening behaviours. Identity Exploration (IDEX) is a new approach which can be readily integrated into treatment modalities such as IPT (interpersonal), CAT (cognitive-analytic), DBT (dialectical) and SFT (solution-focussed) which are used for such cases. Objectives: To identify identity states, their clinical manifestations and presentations by type. To provide clinical illustrations of each type, highlight where treatment interventions are possible within this paradigm, and report outcomes. Aims: To set out the details of a twelve week group treatment programme. Elements of the programme are - knowing the origins of problems; getting to know self; enhancement of self-concept and self-esteem; discovering self confidence; being satisfied; dealing with rejection and disappointment; taking time out; cooperating and sharing; being kind to self. Methods: Completion of IDEX instrument; qualitative assessment, using the Alston grid, to differentiate comorbid conditions which include ADD, juvenile bipolar disorder, reactive attachment disorder, developmental traumatic disorder and complex PTSD; process notes of group therapy sessions; CORE evaluation of outcomes. Results: The summary scores for the main parameters - empathetic identification, identity diffusion, conflicted identification and contaridentification - together with how they relate to the four identity states - Achieved, Foreclosed, Diffused and Moratorium - and outcomes will all be reported. Conclusion: Identity Exploration is an easily administered tool which requires minimal training and which can be integrated into whichever treatment modality a therapist is trained in.
- Subjects
BORDERLINE personality disorder; IDENTITY (Psychology) in youth; SOLUTION-focused therapy; SELF-perception; SELF-esteem; SELF-confidence; COMORBIDITY
- Publication
European Psychiatry, 2011, Vol 26, p1952
- ISSN
0924-9338
- Publication type
Abstract
- DOI
10.1016/S0924-9338(11)73655-0