The neglect of treatment-construct validity in psychotherapy research: A systematic review of comparative RCTs of psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

BMC Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Lundh, Lars Gunnar ^a   Petersson, Terese ^a   Wolgast, Martin ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alternative explanations; Borderline personality disorder; Construct validity; Internal validity; Psychotherapy; Randomized controlled trials; Treatment contrasts; Treatment integrity; Treatment model; Treatment package

Indexed keywords

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85008442865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20507283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40359-016-0151-2     Document Type: Article

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