Research projects

Personality disorder classification and assessment

• Nor-AMP - The Norwegian Multicentre Study of the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders.
• Nor-AMP-J - The Norwegian Multicentre Study of the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders - Junior
• Psychometric evaluations - Studies of reliability and validity of measurements and measurement methods.
• The redefining psychopathy project.

Treatment, process, and costs

• The multicentre TREATPD study - Utility of implemented treatment in mental health services for people with personality disorders. The project is a current collaboration within the Norwegian Network for Personality Disorders with a five-year data collection period (2017-). It includes separate PhD work packages : TREATING PD and COSTS of PD.
• The TREATPD-SUD study - Expanding knowledge of patients with dual Personality Disorder/Substance-Use Disorder. Study based on TREATPD data collection.
• The Antisocial Project - A Feasibility Study of Mentalization Based Treatment for Antisocial Personality Disorder in Norway. Study based on TREATPD data collection.
• Mentalizing - Assessment and relation to treatment, (Minding mentalizing) - A separate single-centre study within the framework of TREATPD, overall title: “Reflective functioning and psychotherapy processes in Mentalization-based treatment”, and the PhD project: “The Mentalization Breakdown Interview (MBI): a new method for the assessment of mentalizing capacity in research and clinical practice”.
• Bridging Affect Consciousness, Mentalization and Trauma- Exploring an Integrative Treatment Approach for Personality Disorder (PD). RCT organized within the framework of TREATPD also including several qualitative studies and PhD projects.
• Treating avoidant personality disorder - Studies based on data from the Norwegian Network for Personality Disorders in the TREATPD period.
  • Metacognitive interpersonal therapy in group (MIT-G) for patients with avoidant personality disorder. A treatment study.
  • MBT for patients with avoidant personality disorder.
• TREATPD-PTSD – Retrospective (TREATPD period) and prospective pilots (from 2025) focusing on dual Personality Disorder/PTSD, all based on data from the Norwegian Network for Personality Disorders.
• Treating young people with borderline personality disorder features  - pilot investigation of weekend and web-based mentalization-based treatment (We2U)
• Investigating the effectiveness of intensive home-based treatment for complex children, adolescents and families . Head of Research Line Decker
• Therapist countertransference - PhD project: "Countertransference in the treatment of patients with personality disorders". A multicentre study sample based on data from the Norwegian Network for Personality Disorders.
• Borderline personality disorder and mentalization-based treatment - Single centre study samples based on data from the Norwegian Network for Personality Disorders.

Studies of personality functioning and comorbidity

• Extreme challenges - A national investigation of psychiatric inpatients with severe self-harming behaviour in Norway.
• Concurrent personality disorders and chronic pain: Co-occurrence rates, mechanisms, and contemporary diagnostic frameworks - Exploring chronic pain among patients with personality disorder.
• Selfharming and adolescents - Young peoples’ experiences of self-harm.
• BioBank project - The Norwegian Network Study of Personality and Genetics  NONSTOP-GEN