Enhancing readiness to engage in treatments for people with personality difficulties
Abstract
Treatment non-completion in personality disorder (PD) treatments is prevalent and non-completers show poorer treatment outcomes than completers. Identifying risk factors fornon-completion, and particularly causal risk factors, is important to inform criteria for treat-ment selection, design treatments that are responsive to non-completion risk, and designinterventions to minimise non-completion. Risk factors lie in a number of domains, includingindividual, treatment, and environmental characteristics. A model of Readiness to Engage inTreatment for Personality Disorders is presented to guide research and assessment. Pre-therapypreparation is one potentially valuable approach to improving treatment engagement and re-tention, and examples of interventions are described. Throughout this review, the relevance ofresearch to forensic services is specifically highlighted.
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2012
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Article
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Personality disorders, Patient compliance
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McMurran, M. (2012). Enhancing readiness to engage in treatments for people with personality difficulties. Clinical Psychology Forum, (237), pp.36-40.