Publications by authors named "Robin P A van der Linde"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to explore how beliefs about memory related to dissociation impact trauma-focused treatment in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), particularly those with the dissociative subtype.
- Researchers assessed PTSD symptoms and dissociative beliefs in a sample of 111 patients, finding that those with the dissociative subtype had higher levels of these beliefs before treatment, which decreased after trauma-focused therapy.
- Contrary to initial expectations, the study concluded that higher levels of dissociation-related beliefs did not adversely affect treatment outcomes for PTSD patients.
Objective: The schema mode model offers a new conceptualisation of complex dissociative disorders (CDD) as it explains shifts between identities as shifts between schema modes. Furthermore, in this model CDD is conceived as personality pathology, incorporating core features of personality disorders. This study tested the assumptions of this schema mode model of CDD.
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