Exploration of personality factors and their predictive impact on therapy utilization: The externalizing mode of functioning

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 295-308

  Löffler Stastka, Henriette ^a,b   Blueml, Victor ^a,b   Boes, Christa ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Affect regulation; Emotion in therapy; Externalizing personality dimension; Interpersonal functioning; Personality disorders; Psychoanalytic psychodynamic therapy; SWAP 200; Test development; Therapy utilization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CONTROL; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT RELATION; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AFFECT; CHARACTER; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; Q-SORT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951678934     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503300903436710     Document Type: Article

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