Treatment effects of a 12-week daytreatment program were explored on measures of psychiatric distress (Brief Symptom Inventory) and maladaptive schemas (Schema Questionnaire Short-Form;Young, 1990). Eighty-four program completers showed significant pre-post change in psychiatric distress and on 3 of 15 schema: vulnerability to harm, social alienation, and defectiveness. Other schema did not change over the 12 weeks. Fifteen waiting-list controls demonstrated no improvement in either distress level or in any of the 15 schema while waiting to be admitted to the program. Only 1 of the 15 schema, abandonment, predicted treatment outcome on changes in psychiatric distress level.
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