Evaluating an alliance-focused treatment for personality disorders.
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This paper presents a study with the aim of evaluating the relative efficacy of an alliance-focused treatment, brief relational therapy, in comparison to a short-term dynamic therapy and a cognitive–behavioral therapy on a sam-ple of highly comorbid personality dis-ordered patients. Results indicated that the three treatments were equally effec-tive on standard statistical analyses of change, including those conducted on repeated measures and residual gain scores. Some significant differences were indicated regarding clinically sig-nificant change and reliable change, favoring the brief relational and cognitive–behavioral models. There was also a significant difference re-garding dropout rates, favoring brief relational therapy.
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Muran et al. found significant differences only on some secondary outcomes that were not maintained at follow-up between psychodynamic therapy, brief relational therapy, and cognitive behavioural therapy for Cluster-C personality disorders.
“Muran et al. [78] found significant differences only on some secondary outcomes that were not maintained at follow-up between 30 sessions psychodynamic therapy, brief relational therapy, and cognitive behavioural therapy for Cluster-C PDs (N=84).”
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- Authors
- Muran, J. C., Safran, J. D., Samstag, L. W., & Winston, A.
- Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel (US)
- The New School (US)
- Long Island University (US)
- Venue
- Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training
- Published
- 2005
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 532-545
- ISSN
- 0033-3204 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1536
- OpenAlex
- W1999477872
- Cited by
- 165
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychotherapy (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH50246)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- personality disorders, dynamic therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, treatment efficacy, comorbidities, dropout rates, reliable change, residual gain
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