标题：Response to ‘‘Treatment compliance and effectiveness in complex PTSD patients with co-morbid personality disorder undergoing stabilizing cognitive behavioral group treatment: a preliminary study’’ authors’ reply
摘要：In a response to our article “Treatment compliance and effectiveness in complex PTSD patients with personality disorders (…)”, Dr. A de Jongh and Dr. E ten Broeke express their concern “that conclusions on data derived from an analysis of a sample of complex PTSD patients previously published in the Journal of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, could prematurely encourage clinicians, as well as investigators, to offer their patients similar stabilization programs in affiliated mental health institutions.” In this reply, we would like to explain what we actually encourage clinicians and researchers to do, and why: 1) stabilize when PTSD patients drop-out from, or cannot be included in, first-line treatments due to complexity and comorbidity; 2) conduct treatment effect studies on complex PTSD patients with comorbid severe personality disorder(s) (PD) before generalizing the effectiveness of first-line treatments to this understudied group; and 3) use stabilization treatment to prepare complex PTSD patients with comorbid PD for first-line treatments and as such increase the net number of patients profiting from these treatments.(Published: 5 February 2014)Citation: European Journal of Psychotraumatology 2014, 5: 23792 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v5.23792This paper is a response to a Letter-to-the-Editor that can be found here.
