The Effectiveness of a Creative Arts en Psychomotor Therapy Intervention for People With Personality Disorders. From Negative Thinking to Positive Doing.

Generic sense of ability to adapt scale (GSAAS)

Mental health consists of the absence of mental disorders and the presence of mental
 well-being. However; mental health care currently focuses mainly on mental disorders and less
 on promoting mental well-being. And yet people with personality problems often score very low
 on well-being. In order to work on sustainable mental health, attention is needed for both
 mental complaints and well-being and this is achieved through promoting psychological
 adaptation.
 
 Psychological adaptation is the process in which a person deals in a healthy way with their
 own needs, emotions and inner signals (such as stress) as well as the smaller or larger
 challenges in life. For people with personality problems psychological adaptation is also
 low, they mainly react in rigid patterns.
 
 Creative arts and psychomotor therapies (CAPTS) are a non-verbal form of therapy in which
 various creative methods, such as theater, sports, dance, music and sports methods, are used
 to make contact with emotions and to practice healthier ways of dealing with them. This is
 very suitable for working on promoting psychological adaptivity, within a safe and playful
 context. It's about doing and experiencing, and discovering what works for you personally,
 more than talking and understanding.
 
 That this is effective is endorsed by professionals and clients in mental health care, but
 scientific evidence is still scarce. That is why a specially developed, CAPTS module for
 people with personality problems will be investigated in a mixed methods design. We focus on
 both effectiveness and working mechanisms in a Multiple Baseline Single Case Experimental
 Design and a qualitative approach.