Patients with addiction and personality disorder: Treatment outcomes and clinical implications

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-71

  Van Den Bosch, Louisa M C ^a   Verheul, Roel ^b,c  

^a Forensic Psychiatric Institute Oldenkotte   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Center of Psychotherapy de Viersprong   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Addiction; Antisocial; Borderline; Personality disorders; Substance abuse; Substance use disorders

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BORDERLINE STATE; COMORBIDITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENDER; HUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOPATHY; REVIEW; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DUAL (PSYCHIATRY); HUMANS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PROGNOSIS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845431611     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e328011740c     Document Type: Review

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