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STEPPS group treatment for borderline personality disorder in The Netherlands. 2006

Bas Van Wel, and Ina Kockmann, and Nancee Blum, and Bruce Pfohl, and Donald W Black, and Wilma Heesterman
Adhesie GGz Midden Overijssel, Deventer, The Netherlands.

BACKGROUND Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) is a new cognitive group treatment for outpatients with borderline personality disorder. METHODS The English and Dutch language literature was reviewed on the STEPPS program. RESULTS STEPPS was introduced in The Netherlands in 1998 under the acronym VERS. Reasons for its rapid dissemination throughout Holland include a user-friendly manual, its 20-week duration, ability to maintain the patient's current treatment team, and ease of therapist training. Two pilot studies, one in the US and one in The Netherlands, suggest its efficacy. Randomized controlled trials are now underway. CONCLUSIONS STEPPS has become widespread in The Netherlands, and is now being modified for other settings, such as programs for adolescents.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009426 Netherlands Country located in EUROPE. It is bordered by the NORTH SEA, BELGIUM, and GERMANY. Constituent areas are Aruba, Curacao, and Sint Maarten, formerly included in the NETHERLANDS ANTILLES. Holland,Kingdom of the Netherlands
D010865 Pilot Projects Small-scale tests of methods and procedures to be used on a larger scale if the pilot study demonstrates that these methods and procedures can work. Pilot Studies,Pilot Study,Pilot Project,Project, Pilot,Projects, Pilot,Studies, Pilot,Study, Pilot
D011340 Problem Solving A learning situation involving more than one alternative from which a selection is made in order to attain a specific goal.
D011615 Psychotherapy, Group A form of therapy in which two or more patients participate under the guidance of one or more psychotherapists for the purpose of treating emotional disturbances, social maladjustments, and psychotic states. Group Therapy,Group Psychotherapy,Therapy, Group
D001883 Borderline Personality Disorder A personality disorder marked by a pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts. (DSM-IV) Personality Disorder, Borderline,Disorder, Borderline Personality,Borderline Personality Disorders,Disorders, Borderline Personality,Personality Disorders, Borderline
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000339 Affect The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves. Mood,Affects,Moods
D000553 Ambulatory Care Health care services provided to patients on an ambulatory basis, rather than by admission to a hospital or other health care facility. The services may be a part of a hospital, augmenting its inpatient services, or may be provided at a free-standing facility. Outpatient Care,Outpatient Health Services,Clinic Visits,Health Services, Outpatient,Outpatient Services,Services, Outpatient Health,Urgent Care,Care, Ambulatory,Care, Outpatient,Care, Urgent,Cares, Urgent,Clinic Visit,Health Service, Outpatient,Outpatient Health Service,Outpatient Service,Service, Outpatient,Service, Outpatient Health,Services, Outpatient,Urgent Cares,Visit, Clinic,Visits, Clinic
D013598 Systems Theory Principles, models, and laws that apply to complex interrelationships and interdependencies of sets of linked components which form a functioning whole, a system. Any system may be composed of components which are systems in their own right (sub-systems), such as several organs within an individual organism. General Systems Theory,Queuing Theory,General Systems Theories,Queuing Theories,Systems Theories,Systems Theories, General,Systems Theory, General,Theories, General Systems,Theories, Queuing,Theories, Systems,Theory, General Systems,Theory, Queuing,Theory, Systems
D014481 United States A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.

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