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Table 1 Overview of socioecological interventions and instruments used in the treatment of BPD in adolescents

From: Improving treatment outcomes for adolescents with borderline personality disorder through a socioecological approach

Pretreatment network meetings

Three to four network meetings held prior to therapy is initiated. All persons involved in the patient´s life and considered essential for the development are invited. The aim is to register obstacles for a positive development, including barriers to therapy, school attendance, leisure activities, meeting with peers etc. A second aim is to engage the development of the system case-formulation and the system attachment map

System case-formulation

The system case-formulation is established as a result of pretreatment meetings and ongoing network meetings, formulating how specific elements contribute to the patient´s current state, both barriers as well as resources

System attachment map

The intention with the system attachment map is to map and describe the most vital attachment patterns in the patient ´s life to other people outside of therapy, and to clarify what potential risk of conflict these patterns could cause for the patient

NET-AIM

The NET-AIM is a self-report instrument capable of keeping track of and evaluating the network interventions and meetings to secure common ground and gauge network alliances and network trust. All network participants answer the questions and it is used as a common tool in the network to evaluate interventions and collaboration

Network meetings

Network meetings are essential and is implemented with almost the same frequency as therapy. In those settings the system case-formulation and the system attachment map are developed at revised as things change. The network meetings are monitored using the NET-AIM