Publications by authors named "Emme Kerj"
Objectives: To explore how former patients in dialectical behaviour therapy for adolescents (DBT-A) experience their treatment, and specifically if there were aspects of the treatment that they retrospectively identify as particularly meaningful, helpful or unhelpful.
Design: From a larger sample of 75 former DBT-A patients 19 were selected for a qualitative semi-structured interview study.
Methods: Young adults (N = 19; 18 females, one male), who as adolescents had been enrolled in DBT-A due to self-harming behaviours and features of borderline personality disorder, were interviewed up to 8 years (median 6.