Network for personality disorders (The Network)
The Network is a clinical research collaboration within Norwegian specialist mental health services founded in 1992. The Network aims to integrate clinical research with quality systems for systematic assessment and progress feedback during treatment. The collaboration includes treatment units (currently 20) across all health regions in Norway, contributing to a large research database on personality disorder.
Common clinical routines and data collection from members of the Network have over the past 30 years formed the basis for a large quality register. This anonymous register has formed the basis for a number of publications, as well as doctoral and master theses, with focus on the understanding and treatment of personality disorders, as well as on related measures and measurement methods.
The network continuously evaluates its joint questionnaires, tests and interviews, and minor changes may occur every 3-4 year. Major changes will occur if treatment offers or overall research projects change, such as the TREATPD. Such changes lead to the Network's quality register having different contents in different periods. There are now three such periods: The first from 1993-2008, the second from 2009-2016, and the current one from 2017. As of today, the register comprises data from over 14.000 patients.
Reference:
Pedersen, G., Wilberg, T., Hummelen, B., & Kvarstein, E. H. (2022). The Norwegian Network for Personality Disorders – Development, contributions and challenges through 30 years. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 77, 512-520. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039488.2022.2147995
Read more about the Network here (Text in Norwegian here).
Contact: Geir Pedersen
Outpatient Clinic for Specialized Personality Disorder Treatment
A specialized outpatient unit at the Section for Personality psychiatry and specialized treatments, Oslo University Hospital. The unit is engaged in several single-centre research projects. Current projects include treatment focused on borderline personality disorder (Mentalization-based Treatment) and treatment for people with avoidant personality disorder. The unit is a central research collaborator. Research foci include assessment of mentalizing, treatment processes, and outcomes.
Read more about the unit here (Text in Norwegian).
Contact: Jane Fjermestad-Noll
National Advisory Unit Personality Psychiatry (NAPP)
NAPP was established in 2012 to increase competence on personality disorder within health services and public. NAPP recruits persons with user experience to an expert user panel. Several have contributed to current research projects. NAPP has a supervisory/quality service; Psychotherapy Quality Laboratory, also contributing to treatment fidelity assessments in research.
Read more about NAPP here (Text in Norwegian).
Contact: Ingeborg Ulltveit-Moe Eikenæs
National Center for Suicide Research and Prevention
Our relation to NSSF is mainly related to our projects on Self-harming and suicidal behaviors in personality disorders (text in Norwegian) and Extreme challenges. Members of our research group are also engaged in other projects (text in Norwegian) from NSSF.
NORMENT part UiO (NORMENT)
A Centre of Excellence (CoE) funded by the Research Council of Norway (Read more about NORMENT here). The collaboration with NORMENT is mainly related to our Bio-Bank project.
Pain Research Group
The Pain Research Group consists of several sub-groups working in different fields of pain research. Our collaboration is mainly related to the project on Pain, personality and polygenic risk.
Research Network for Avoidant Personality Disorder
The research network aims to facilitate engagement, research collaborations, and meeting places for clinical research on AvPD.
Read more about the network here
Nordic MBT research Network
The research network aims to facilitate research engagement, contact and collaboration on MBT and related treatment developments for severe personality disorder.
Read more about the network here
University of Kassel, Hessen, Germany
The structure of DSM personality disorder criteria: Two meta-analytic factor analyses. This is a simple time-limited project with the hypothesis: What is the structure underlying the DSM criteria of personality disorder (PD)?
Norwegian project groups
- Extreme Challenges (Read more about the project here)
- Antisocial personality disorder (Read more about the project here)
- NOR-AMP research group (Read more about the project here)