120
Participants
Start Date
February 1, 2016
Primary Completion Date
April 30, 2018
Study Completion Date
May 15, 2018
Structural skills training group
Weekly 2-hours sessions for 14 weeks follow the Norwegian translation of the Swedish version of the ADHD skills training manual/workbook (Hesslinger 2010; Hirvikoski 2011; Morgensterns 2015) which is based on an adaption of Marsha Linehan's dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for borderline personality disorder into a group-based skills training program for adults with ADHD (Hesslinger 2002; Philipsen 2007). The groups embrace 7 - 10 participants, and two group leaders trained in group therapy, cognitive-behavioral treatment or DBT. Each session contains an initial short repetition and feedback on the previous session, followed by review of the homework during the first hour. After a break, a new topic with exercises and homework for the following week is introduced.
Treatment as usual
Treatment as usual includes clinical management and/or medication, and or supportive counselling by physician or nurse
Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg
Haukeland University Hospital
OTHER
Oslo University Hospital
OTHER
The Hospital of Vestfold
OTHER
University of Oslo
OTHER