{"id":2015,"date":"2012-03-24T09:44:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T14:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2012-03-24T15:12:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T20:12:36","slug":"study-looks-at-neuropsychological-factors-that-affect-completion-of-psychotherapy-in-bpd-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/03\/study-looks-at-neuropsychological-factors-that-affect-completion-of-psychotherapy-in-bpd-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Study looks at neuropsychological factors that affect completion of psychotherapy in BPD patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the\u00a0 <em>Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics<\/em> press release via AlphaGalileo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"brain\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/Brain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" \/>A study that is published in the current issue of <em>Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics<\/em> addresses the issue of <strong>specific neuropsychological assets that can predict completion of psychotherapy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Non-completion of a prescribed course of treatment occurs in 20\u201360% of individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). <strong>While symptom severity, personality traits and environmental factors have been implicated as predictors of treatment non-completion (TNC), there have been no studies of neuropsychological predictors in this population<\/strong>. From a randomized controlled trial, a subsample of 31, unmedicated outpatients diagnosed with BPD with recent self-injurious behavior was assessed on 5 neuropsychological domains. Patients were also assessed for general IQ, demographic and other salient clinical variables. Patients were randomized to one of four treatment conditions, which lasted up to 1 year. Number of weeks in treatment (WIT) up to 1 year was utilized as the index of TNC. Thirty-three percent of the subsample (n = 12) did not complete 1 year of treatment. However, more WIT were predicted by better baseline executive control (Trails B; p &lt; 0.01) and visual memory performance (Benton visual retention; p &lt; 0.001); other neuropsychological domains did not predict WIT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the treatment of outpatients with BPD, better executive control and visual memory performance predict more WIT<\/strong>. Assessing and addressing these neurocognitive factors in treatment may reduce TNC in this high-risk population.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the\u00a0 Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics press release via AlphaGalileo: A study that is published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics addresses the issue of specific neuropsychological&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/03\/study-looks-at-neuropsychological-factors-that-affect-completion-of-psychotherapy-in-bpd-patients\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[297,296,42,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}