Clients with BPD experience of Cognitive Analytic therapy
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Cognitive analytical therapy for clients with Borderline Personality Disorder: An IPA study of client’s experiences’ of treatment.
IRAS ID
168370
Contact name
Owen Richardson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
London Metropolitan University
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 1 months, 1 days
Research summary
How do clients with borderline personality disorder experience cognitive analytical therapy? An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) study.
Until recently there have been few effective short-term treatments for clients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The majority of interventions that exist and have strong empirically validated research tend to be complex (Linehan et al., 1993; Bateman & Fonagy, 1999) and are long in duration (Giesen-Bloo et al., 2006). This causes challenges to both the services and clinicians who attempt to treat BPD. Cognitve Analytic Therapy attempts to address this challenge by providing a brief, model of treatment for clients with BPD (Clarke et al, 2013). However there lacks an empirical evidence base that aids our understanding of how this client group experience CAT. This research aims to address this gap by developing an understanding of the subjective experience of client with BPD and their of CAT. This will allow clinicians working in this field to adapt the current model of CAT in order to make it more client centred and directly informed by service users, thus providing more effective treatment.
All participants will be adults of working age (i.e. between the ages of 18-64), with a diagnosis of BPD and will be recruited from Hertfordshire NHS Foundation Trust. They will meet the chief investigator at a NHS treatment center and participate in a 1 hour semistructured interview.
The interviews will be recorded and transcribed verbatim prior to analysis. A IPA analysis will be applied using a structured framework that ensures systematic analysis and multiple readings of the transcripts in order to develop superordinate themes that emerge from the participant’s interviews. Once analysis of the data has been completed the research will be written up for a doctoral thesis.
From conception to completion the study us expected to take approximately 2 years.REC name
London - Surrey Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/LO/1985
Date of REC Opinion
5 Dec 2016
REC opinion
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