Please cite this article in press as: Bernard, L., & Walburg, V. Efficacy of a Brief Cognitive- Emotional Group Intervention for Patients with Borderline personality disorder. Psychol. fr. (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psfr.2019.11.001 ARTICLE IN PRESS G Model PSFR-460; No. of Pages 12 Psychologie française xxx (2020) xxx–xxx Disponible en ligne sur www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect et également disponible sur www.em-consulte.com Original article Efficacy of a Brief Cognitive-Emotional Group Intervention for Patients with Borderline personality disorder Efficacité d’une prise en charge brève de groupe de type cognitivo-émotionnelle chez des patients souffrant du trouble de la personnalité borderline L. Bernard , V. Walburg ∗ CERES (Cultures, Éthique, Religions, Et Société), Faculté libre des lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Institut Catholique de Toulouse (ICT), 31, rue de la Fonderie, BP 7012, 31068 Toulouse cedex 7, France a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 19 January 2019 Accepted 8 November 2019 Available online xxx Keywords: Borderline personality disorder Group therapy Emotional regulation Interpersonal relationships a b s t r a c t The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of a short- term group intervention composed of four sessions and focused on emotion regulation with patients suffering from borderline per- sonality disorder. Twenty-four patients hospitalised in a psychiatric ward with a diagnosis of borderline personality participated in this study. Twelve patients participated in group sessions focused on emotion regulation, while the other 12 patients underwent indi- vidual sessions of individual behavioural and cognitive therapy which focused on emotion regulation. The intensity of anxiety and depressive symptoms, alexithymia and impulsivity scores, emo- tion regulation difficulties, and adaptive as well as non-adaptive emotional regulation strategies were measured before the group intervention, as well as just after it and a month later. In both groups there was an improvement in depressive and anxious symp- toms, emotion regulation difficulties, impulsivity and alexithymia ∗ Corresponding author. E-mail address: vera.walburg@gmail.com (V. Walburg). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psfr.2019.11.001 0033-2984/© 2019 Soci ´ et ´ e Franc¸ aise de Psychologie. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.