Treatment response of severe and nonsevere personality disorders in a therapeutic community day unit

The purpose of this study was to determine if personality characteristics identified by Millon (1983) as strongly predisposing to enduring depression are useful in discriminating between transient and enduring depression in alcoholic women. A strong association was found between scores on a scale me...

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Published in:Journal of personality disorders 1990-06, Vol.4 (2), p.161-172
Main Authors: VAGLUM, P, FRIIS, S, IRION, T, JOHNS, S, KARTERUD, S, LARSEN, F, VAGLUM, S
Format: Article
Language:English
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Antineoplastic agents
Behavioral Sciences
Biological and medical sciences
Chemotherapy
Community Involvement
Community Programs
Community Relations
Departments
Group Activities
Hospitals
Medical sciences
Modeling (Psychology)
Nurses
Occupational Therapy
Patients
Personality
Personality Problems
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
Predictive Validity
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychotherapy
Rating Scales
Resistance (Psychology)
Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Therapeutic Environment
Validity
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Summary:The purpose of this study was to determine if personality characteristics identified by Millon (1983) as strongly predisposing to enduring depression are useful in discriminating between transient and enduring depression in alcoholic women. A strong association was found between scores on a scale measuring passive-aggressive personality features and enduring depression among women completing treatment for alcohol abuse. Enduring depression among the alcoholic women in this study was also moderately associated with scores on a scale measuring avoidant personality features. Transient depression was positively associated with scores on a scale gauging compulsive--conforming characteristics. Results of this study of alcoholic women are generally consistent with the results of McMahon and Davidson's (1985) investigation of alcoholic men in indicating that personality factors usefully discriminate between transient and enduring depression.
ISSN:0885-579X
1943-2763
DOI:10.1521/pedi.1990.4.2.161