The effectiveness of capacity building based dynamic psychotherapy on emotion dysregulation and distress tolerance of borderline patients

Kharghani, Saba; Ebrahimi Khalaji, Faezeh; Sharifi, Sajedeh; Naraghipour, Saman; Samadifard, Nasim

doi:10.22038/mjms.2024.83239.4788

The effectiveness of capacity building based dynamic psychotherapy on emotion dysregulation and distress tolerance of borderline patients

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Saba Kharghani ¹

Faezeh Ebrahimi Khalaji ²

Sajedeh Sharifi ³

Saman Naraghipour ⁴

Nasim Samadifard ⁵

¹ Department of Psychology, central Tehran branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

² Department of Islamic positive psychology, Shar-e-Rey Branch, Qura’an and Hadith University, Tehran, Iran

³ Department of clinical psychology, electronic Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Department of Psychology, northern Tehran branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

⁵ Department of psychology, Faculty of educational sciences and Psychology, university of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

10.22038/mjms.2024.83239.4788

Abstract

Abstract
Introduction: considering the lack of RCT’s and the importance of the subject it was necessary to examine the effectiveness of capacity building Dynamic Psychotherapy on emotion dysregulation and distress tolerance of boatrderline personality disorder patients.
Methods: this was a randomized controlled trial and from all BPD patients with high levels of emotion dysregulation and low levels of distress tolerance of neuropsychiatric clinics in Qom during fall 2023, 30 eligible individuals were selected using randomized clustered sampling and were randomly assigned into intervention and control group. The data from Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) and Distress Tolerance Scale (DTS) in pretest and posttest were analyzed via SPSS-26 through analyze of covariance (ANCOVA).
Results: the ANCOVA results showed that the differences between groups in emotion dysregulation (F=75/66, p=0/04) and distress tolerance (F=86/15, p=0/02) were significant.
Conclusion: Capacity Building Dynamic Psychotherapy can be considered as an effective intervention for reducing emotion dysregulation and improving distress tolerance in BPD patients.

Keywords

Capacity Building Dynamic Psychotherapy

emotion dysregulation

distress tolerance

boatrderline personality disorder

Subjects