Background and aims
Project development is in progress and will involve a ten-year data collection period aiming to provide grounds for both qualitative and quantitative studies in an RCT framework comparing MBT programs with and without an add-on intervention focusing on affect consciousness. The research site is an outpatient clinic within specialist level Mental Health Care in Stavanger specializing on treatment for personality disorder (PD). The project owner is SUS. The outpatient clinic is part of the Norwegian Network for Personality Disorders which provides infrastructure for the data collection. The first work package includes three qualitative studies and has received local funding for a PhD candidate (Eileen Oftedal, Stavanger DPS).
The project group
The project group has an interdisciplinary composition including clinicians and researchers. The following have been engaged in different aspects:
- PhD candidate, project initiator and local project leader: Eileen Oftedal (MA)
- Local researcher and qualitative analyses: Kristine Rørtveit, prof. in nursing science at the Department of Care and Ethics at the Faculty of Health Sciences, (UIS)
- Data-collection: Geir Pedersen (MA/PhD) leader of the Norwegian Network for Personality Disorders (100%), Section for Personality Psychiatry and Specialized Treatments, Oslo University Hospital (OUH)
- Specialized rating and method adherence: Andreas Ekberg, (MA, Psychoterapy Quality Lab, Section for Personality Psychiatry and Specialized Treatments
- Main supervisor and formal principal investigator: Prof. Ole André Solbakken Cand. Psych. (MA, PhD), Head of the Section for Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychology (PSI), Institute of Affect Theory and Psychotherapy group (IATP) at the University of Oslo (UIO)
- Co- supervisors: Elfrida Hartveit Kvarstein (MD, PhD), leader of the Research group for Personality Psychiatry and Head senior Consultant at the Section for Personality Psychiatry and Specialized Treatments, Oslo University Hospital (OUH) 100%/ Associate professor (UiO 20%), and Jon Trygve Monsen, Professor emeritus UiO.
- Statistics: Pål Ulleberg (MD/PhD) PSI, UIO, researcher with particular competence in the advanced statistical methods.
- Other resources/expertise in PD, MBT, AC and PTSD: M. S. Johansen (MD,PhD), K. E. Duna (MA), The Norwegian Institute of Mentalization (IM), represented by H. Jordet (MA/Head of IM) and professor S. Karterud (MD/PhD), I. H. U-M Eikenæs (MD,PhD), K.T.Morken ( MA/PhD), associate professor, University of Bergen, clinical psychologist, P. H. V. Sele, (MA/PhD- student, Modum BAd) S. S. Sætren (MA, SUS).
- International (Nordic) independent consultants: C. Kjær Frederiksen (MA,PhD), and G. Kjærsdam Telléus Aalborg University (AAU)/Aalborg University Hospital (AUH), S. Steen Høgenhaug, (PhD-student/MA) at the University of Aalborg and Sweden: A. Sylvén Björnör (MA).