Citation

Morey LC, Lowmaster SE, Hopwood CJ. Psychiatry Res. 2010; 178(3): 531-535.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4235, USA. lmorey@psych.tamu.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.psychres.2010.04.055

PMID

20537722

Abstract

This study examined the efficacy of Manual Assisted Cognitive Therapy (MACT) as a stand-alone treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) with suicidal ideation, and piloted a Therapeutic Assessment (TA) intervention among 16 patients randomly assigned to MACT or MACT+TA. Although MACT was associated with significant reductions in BPD features and suicidal ideation, less than half of the sample completed the treatment. The TA augmentation did not improve treatment retention but it was associated with somewhat greater clinical improvement. Although findings associate MACT with symptom reduction among persisting patients, attrition rate was problematically high in the overall sample.

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