Trial reportEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2023
Mentalization-based treatment for adolescents with conduct disorder (MBT-CD): a feasibility study.
Trial report in European child & adolescent psychiatry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Mentalization-based Training for Adolescents With Conduct Disorder (MBT-CD): A Feasibility and Pilot Study
The Mentalization Intervention for Children and Adolescents (MICA) Study: A Randomised Controlled Trial of Support for Aggressive and Violent Behaviour Via Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (FCAMHS)
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- When Teachers Mentalize: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Teacher Responses to Disruptive Classroom Behaviour.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Mentalization and Emotion Regulation in Adolescent Attachment: A Scoping Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Assessing mentalization in practice: Reliability of the mentalization-based treatment research adherence and competence scale.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- Patient characteristics of completion and dropout of mentalization-based treatment for adolescents with conduct disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Antisocial personality disorder and therapeutic pessimism - how can mentalization-based treatment contribute to an increased therapeutic optimism among health professionals?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Atypical functional connectome is associated with low reflective functioning in incarcerated adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Enhancing mentalization by specific interventions within mentalization-based treatment of adolescents with conduct disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Conduct disorder (CD) is a common psychiatric disorder in youth characterized by persisting norm-violating or aggressive behavior. Considering high individual and societal burden, feasible and effective psychotherapeutic treatment is desirable. Yet, treatments and research in this patient group are scarce. This study investigates the feasibility of mentalization-based treatment for adolescents with CD (MBT-CD) in terms of acceptability of MBT-CD and scientific assessments by participants as well as necessary organizational resources to conduct a consecutive randomized controlled trial (RCT). Recruitment, adherence and treatment session numbers were descriptively analyzed. Treatment evaluation interviews were qualitatively analyzed. A subset of sessions of therapists without prior MBT experience was rated for MBT adherence. Quantitative data were used to plan a consecutive RCT. Pre to post treatment changes in diagnosis and self-reported aggression, mentalizing and personality functioning were preliminarily analyzed. N = 45 adolescents with CD were recruited. 43% dropped out. Acceptance of scientific assessments was somewhat lower than therapy adherence (questionnaires filled out by ~ 80% of adolescents in treatment), and low at follow-up (25% of treatment completers). Mean session number was 30.3. Most treatment completers were satisfied with MBT-CD. Referrals mainly came from child and youth services and psychiatry. Nine of 16 sessions rated for MBT adherence were adherent. A priori sample size estimation for a prospective RCT with a drop-out rate of 43% yielded a sample of N = 158 to detect an effect f = .15 with 80% power in a repeated measures ANOVA. Pre-post analyses revealed diagnostic improvement in 68%. Of self-reported data, empathy pathology improved. Findings provide a sound basis for a consecutive feasibility and pilot RCT.
trial registrationClinicaltrials.gov, registration number NCT02988453, November 30, 2016, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02988453.
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