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Latent Classes Of Symptom Trajectory In A Brief Treatment For Borderline Personality Disorder, Doug Terrill
Latent Classes Of Symptom Trajectory In A Brief Treatment For Borderline Personality Disorder, Doug Terrill
Theses and Dissertations--Psychology
It is likely that patients with BPD progress through treatment in different ways. Characterizing symptom trajectories during treatment can facilitate the identification of distinct treatment responses, which may be shared by subgroups of patients. Researchers have consistently identified multiple distinct symptom trajectories among individuals with common psychopathological conditions, but no research to date has attempted to do so among patients with BPD. This study used latent growth mixture modeling to identify and characterize distinct classes of symptom trajectories among patients receiving an 18-week cognitive-behavioral treatment for BPD. Two distinct BPD symptom trajectories were identified in this sample, which were primarily …