Supporting parents with borderline personality disorder through a parenting group intervention: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a need for a parenting intervention that specifically addresses the concerns for parents with borderline personality disorder (BPD) due to the challenges that these parents experience and the stigma that surrounds parenting with BPD. Such interventions may also prevent intergenerational transmission of psychopathology and support clinicians to provide care within a personality disorder framework. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief parenting group intervention for parents with BPD.

Trial design

The design was a parallel randomized controlled trial (RCT) with two arms: the brief parenting intervention group and a treatment as usual (TAU) group.

Methods

Participants were parents with a diagnosis of BPD who were parenting at least

SUBMITTER: Grenyer BFS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12461950 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature