Integrating Personality Functioning in Brief Psychotherapy for Substance Use Disorders
Rojo Shalom George,
Gitanjali Narayanan,
Arun Kandasamy
Abstract:A large treatment gap exists for substance use disorders (SUDs) in India. Among other factors, personality impairments are widely implicated in the initiation and maintenance of SUDs leading to poor outcomes. Available brief interventions do not adequately address this vulnerability. Longer term therapies are resource intensive and therefore difficult to incorporate in tertiary care settings due to poor treatment provider-patient ratio. Further, trait-based and categorical models have limited application in br… Show more
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