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  • Psychotherapy Research
  • Dynamic Systems Theory

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  • Personality disorders represent entrenched, self-perpetuating systems.
  • Studying therapeutic change in these disorders offers insights into system transition.
  • Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders (CT-PD) provides a framework for examining these processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate pattern destabilization in CT-PD for Avoidant or Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (AVPD or OCPD).
  • To examine the association between emotional processing, pattern destabilization, and treatment outcomes.
  • To apply dynamic systems theory to understand therapeutic change.

Main Methods:

  • 27 patients with AVPD or OCPD participated in an open trial of CT-PD.
  • Treatment sessions were coded for emotional processing and patterns of functioning (cognitive, affective, behavioral, somatic).
  • Pattern destabilization (dispersion) was calculated using GridWare across early and schema-focused phases.

Main Results:

  • Greater pattern destabilization in the schema-focused phase predicted improved personality disorder symptoms.
  • Enhanced emotional processing in the schema-focused phase predicted stronger positive functioning.
  • Neither destabilization nor emotional processing in the early phase predicted treatment outcomes.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support dynamic systems theory principles of therapeutic change.
  • Results align with updated emotional processing theories.
  • A quantitative method for assessing psychopathology pattern change was demonstrated.