Re: Article on CT with Personality Disorders

I enjoyed this article very much. Thank you for posting it. It supports a lot of the ideas I have developed.

I have a 20 session cognitive behavioral/schema-focused program for personality disordered offenders and I need to do outcome research and see if it helps anyone. But I don't really know what outcome to measure. Is this why little research is done with personality disorders?

I can't use offense recidivism since my program does not deal directly with violence (except marital violence) but more generally with relationships and responsible lifestyle skills. Anyway, the offenders I'd like to work with are low risk and the recidivism studies show that programming is not helpful or unhelpful for low risk violent offenders.

Is there some measure of the thinking styles directly? Charles Elliot indicated in an article that there was a measure of schema flexibility. How would one measure change if one is trying to effect change in a long-term pervasive pathology?

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Re: Article on CT with Personality Disorders, by Linda Nauth again, 12/28/99 Assessing Outcome in CT with Personality Disorders, by Jim Pretzer, 1/1/00 Re: Assessing Outcome in CT with Personality Disorders, by Linda Nauth, 1/8/00 Re: Assessing Outcome in CT with Personality Disorders, by Jordi Cid, 1/10/00 Re: Assessing Outcome in CT with Personality Disorders, by , 03/24/01

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