ArticlePersonality and mental health2016
Do people with borderline personality disorder complicated by antisocial personality disorder benefit from the STEPPS treatment program?
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- Impulsivity and its Therapeutic Management in Borderline Personality Disorder: a Systematic Review.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2020Pooled it
- Psychological interventions for antisocial personality disorder.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Psychological therapies for people with borderline personality disorder.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Implementation of the STEPPS program for the treatment of self-harm behaviors in Catalonia's prisons: barriers and facilitators.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Treating self-harm behaviors in prisons: implementation of the STEPPS program.BMC psychology · 2025Trial
- Comorbidity of borderline with antisocial and narcissistic personality disorders: a multimethod study.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2026Article
- Recent developments in psychosocial interventions for borderline personality disorder.F1000Research · 2019Review
- Does response to the STEPPS program differ by sex, age, or race in offenders with borderline personality disorder?Comprehensive psychiatry · 2018Article
- What Works in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.Current behavioral neuroscience reports · 2017Review
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Abstract
Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) is a group treatment for persons with borderline personality disorder (BPD). We describe results from two data sets on outcome in persons who participated in STEPPS with BPD alone or BPD plus antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). In Study 1, we examined the effect of comorbid ASPD on outcome in 65 persons with BPD who participated in a randomized controlled trial at an academic medical centre. In Study 2, we examined the effect of comorbid ASPD on outcome in 64 offenders with BPD who participated in STEPPS in correctional settings. All subjects were assessed for the presence of BPD and ASPD. In Study 1, subjects with ASPD experienced greater improvement in BPD symptoms, impulsiveness and global symptoms. In Study 2, offenders with ASPD experienced greater improvement in positive and negative behaviours and positive affectivity. We conclude that persons with BPD plus ASPD benefit from STEPPS in community and correctional settings. The findings suggest that persons with BPD plus ASPD show greater improvement in some domains than persons with BPD only. People with ASPD should not be automatically excluded from participation in the program. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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