Psychotherapy Outcome Study

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Recommended: Borderline personality disorder review of the literature

The article I have chosen is, “An Outcome Study of Psychotherapy for Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder.” The study is about thirty patients who have intense personality disorder and experimenters wanted to evaluate the effectiveness of psychotherapy. By doing so experimenters would evaluate the patients before, during and after their treatments. Measures used in this study were violent behavior, drugs used per day, medical visits per month, self-harm, time spent off work, times admitted into the hospital, inpatient time, score on a self-report index and DSM-III scores. The population that is under investigation are the patients with borderline personality disorder according to the score DSM-III standards. The size of the sample …show more content…

The variables used was a 1 Qualitative IV (Therapy), with 2 levels (yes/no), and a Quantitative DV (behavioral measures score). This particular test was done to analyze these variables because they are paired, and the patients used before, during, and after treatment were the same patients. The numerical results of the test for violent behavior was t(29)=3.69, p >0.001 we reject the null hypothesis. The numerical results of the test for drugs used was t(29)= 5.05, p>0.001 we reject the null hypothesis. The numerical results of the test for medical visits was t(29)= 6.16, p>0.001 we reject the null hypothesis. The numerical results of the test for self-harm was t(29)= 3.82, p>0.001 we reject the null hypothesis. The numerical results of the test for time away from work was t(29)= 4.90, p>0.001 we reject the null hypothesis. The numerical results of the test for hospital admissions was t(29)= 3.03, p>0.001 we reject the null hypothesis. The numerical results of the test for time as an inpatient was t(29)= 2.73, p>0.001 we reject the null hypothesis. The numerical results of the test for Index score was t(29)= 5.68, p>0.001 we reject the null hypothesis. The numerical results of the test for DSM-III score was t(29)= 7.48, p>0.001 we reject the null hypothesis. Yes, it was significant because the test statistic is larger than the t critical value, and in this study we reject the null for all measures, p>0.001. The

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