Impact of Therapist Change on Dropout in a Naturalistic Sample of Inpatients With Borderline Pathology Receiving DBT

Exclusion Criteria

• •inability to contract and consent,
• •other severe mental disorders (bipolar disorder, acute psychosis),
• •current alcohol,
• •illicit or not prescribed drug use,
• •simultaneous participation in other treatment studies,
• •pregnancy or breastfeeding,
• •an inability to negotiate a non-suicide agreement,
• •ongoing traumatic contact with the perpetrator, and
• •a Body Mass Index \< 16.5.