Response to ‘‘Treatment compliance and effectiveness in complex PTSD patients with co-morbid personality disorder undergoing stabilizing cognitive behavioral group treatment: a preliminary study’’
Last November, the European Journal of Psychotraumatology
published an interesting paper entitled
‘‘Treatment compliance and effectiveness in
complex PTSD patients with co-morbid personality disorder
undergoing stabilizing cognitive behavioral group
treatment: a preliminary study’’ (Dorrepaal et al., 2013).
This article describes a post hoc analysis on data derived
from an analysis of a sample of complex PTSD patients
previously published in the Journal of Psychosomatics
and Psychotherapy (Dorrepaal et al., 2012). It shows the
differential effects of an experimental condition of a
psycho-educational and cognitive behavioral stabilizing
group course added to treatment as usual (TAU)
compared to TAU (only) for child-abuse-related complex
PTSD. It appeared that drop-out in the stabilization
course scarcely occurred in patients with the most severe
(i.e., borderline) personality pathology (4%), whereas of
those with fewer of such characteristics, 43% did not
complete the course. We are concerned that the authors’
conclusions based upon their initial analysis, suggesting
this program being efficacious (Dorrepaal et al., 2012),
could prematurely encourage clinicians, as well as investigators,
to offer their patients similar stabilization programs
in affiliated mental health institutions. Therefore,
we feel it as our obligation to share our alternate viewpoint
with the readers.
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