About the project
The overall aim of this study is to examine the feasibility of mentalization based therapy for male patients with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) in outpatient clinical settings in Norway. We want to investigate whether treatment outcome is good enough to be implemented at a larger scale and hypothesize that patients with ASPD will have a significant reduction of aggression and substance abuse during treatment, an increase in psychosocial and personality functioning, and a decrease of anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Aims
The primary aim is to investigate feasibility of the treatment by investigating mental health and social functioning outcome measures at one- and two-year follow-up. Feasibility of the treatment protocol will also be investigated. Furthermore, qualitative investigations on patient and therapist experiences of the treatment will be performed. treatment. Lastly, psychotherapy process studies will be done on group therapy sessions. The aim of these studies is to examine in depth some challenges therapists face in MBT group sessions with patients with ASPD/SUD, and examine and describe therapist interventions and their effect within the MBT framework. This study has received no external funding.
Members
- Principal investigator: Katharina T.E Morken, University of Bergen and Haukeland University Hospital
- Åse-Line Baltzersen
- Astrid Bergwitz
- Andreas Ekberg
- Geir Pedersen
- Elisabeth Lied Gikling
- Benjamin Hummelen
- Charlotte Klippenberg
- Elfrida Kvarstein
- Morten Øvrebø
- Anthony Bateman
- Anna Motz
Selected publications
- Flaaten, E., Langfeldt, M., & Morken, K. T. (2024). Antisocial personality disorder and therapeutic pessimism–how can mentalization-based treatment contribute to an increased therapeutic optimism among health professionals?. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1320405.
- Morken, K. T., Øvrebø, M., Klippenberg, C., Morvik, T., & Gikling, E. L. (2022). Antisocial personality disorder in group therapy, kindling pro-sociality and mentalizing. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process, and Outcome, 25(3), 649.