Guideline-Informed Treatment for Personality Disorders (GIT-PD)
Guideline-Informed Treatment for Personality Disorders (GIT-PD) focuses on complaints and problems arising from personality problems. These complaints often manifest themselves in experiencing strong emotions, mood swings, low and negative self-esteem and impulse problems. There are often problems in relationships and/or people feel very isolated. These complaints lead to experiencing a lot of instability and various (psychosocial) problems in daily life.
Purpose
The objective of the treatment is to reduce complaints and problems related to the personality problems. To achieve this, work is done on improving behavioral skills, emotion regulation and developing a more nuanced image of yourself and others.
Duration, frequency and form
The GIT-PD uses individual conversations of 45 minutes and additional (group) modules. The total duration of treatment is a maximum of 18 months.
Method
Within the GIT-PD, working with personal goals is central and there is a lot of attention for cooperation between client and therapist.
The following specific (group) modules can be used during the GIT-PD:
- Mentalizing: reflecting on one's own and other people's feelings, behaviors and motivations.
- Acceptance and Commitment: the emphasis is on recognizing limitations and possibilities.
- Emotion Regulation Disorder (VERS) skills training: group training.
- Creative therapy: individually or in a group.
- Medication consultation
- Systems approach
- EMDR
Proven effective
GIT-PD is based on the assumption that the application of a clearly structured treatment framework and the proper handling of complex therapeutic relationships is effective.
Publications
Hutsebaut, J., Kaasenbrood, A., & Bunningen, N. (2014). Integrated Guideline for the Treatment of Knowledge Center for Personality Disorders.