Assessment tools for affect regulation and quality of object relations in personality disorders: The predictive impact on initial treatment engagement.
On the road to DSM-V, instruments are demanded that provide clinically meaningful information, for example, predictions about psychotherapy utilization. Comparison of five different instruments in a sample of 297 patients with personality disorders showed that the Structured Clinical Interviews for DSM-IV (SCID), SWAP-200, and the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP) lead to predictive models concerning initial therapy engagement. The Affect Experience and Affect Regulation Q-sort (AREQ) provided information concerning therapy rejection. The findings point to the importance of interpersonal, affective, and psycho-structural functioning in the diagnostic procedure of personality disorders.
Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. henriette.loeffler-stastka@meduniwien.ac.at
Henriette
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Loeffler-Stastka
Victor
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Blueml
D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires