The Treatment of Histrionic and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Behaviors: A Single-Subject Demonstration of Clinical Improvement Using Functional Analytic Psychotherapy

Narcissism Predicts Therapy Outcome in Psychosomatic Patients

“…The authors assumed that the CCT group might experience more autonomy and self-efficacy. In a single-case study (Callaghan et al 2003) of histrionic and narcissistic personality disorder, the patient was treated with functional analytic psychotherapy (Kohlenberg and Tsai 1991). Results indicate significant changes in narcissistic behaviors during psychotherapy, but external outcomes were lacking in this study.…”

Functional Analytic Psychotherapy among Mothers with Children with Disruptive Behavior

“…These results suggest that mothers' learning process of alternative positive behaviors, as a result of the intervention strategies that were used based on discrimination, reinforcement, and evocation may have had a positive effect on their children's behavior without being directly treated. This possible relation is explained by the generalization principle, which states that changes obtained during the psychotherapeutic process are extended and maintained in other scenarios (Brumariu & Kerns, 2015;Callaghan et al, 2003;Ferro, Valero, & Vives, 2000); in this case they were extended to mother-child interaction in the family setting. It was observed that changes exhibited by the children kept stable in time, even in cases where mothers discontinue the process due to observed positive outcomes.…”

“…Subsequently, these behavioral changes are expected to be generalized to the natural contexts in which the client interacts (Grow & Kodak, 2010;Kohlenberg & Tsai, 2007;Parra & García, 2006). Different studies have examined the effectiveness of FAP in the treatment of adults' mental diseases, such as depression (Kanter et al, 2006), emotional dependency (Busch, Callaghan, Kanter, Baruch, & Weeks, 2010), obsessive-compulsive disorder (Kohlenberg & Vandenberghe, 2007), posttraumatic stress disorder (Pedersen, Callaghan, Prins, Nguyen, & Tsai, 2012), and histrionic and narcissistic personality disorder behaviors (Callaghan, Summers, & Weidman, 2003), among others. Besides, other studies have focused on identifying FAP efficacy among adolescents (Cattivelli, Tirelli, Berardo, & Perini, 2012;Gaynor & Lawrence, 2002) and children (Gosch & Vandenberghe, 2004).…”

Recent studies in functional analytic psychotherapy.

“…In another study Glenn Callaghan developed a coding system for client and therapist behaviors called the Functional Analytic Psychotherapy Rating Scale (FAPRS) (Callaghan, Summers & Weidman, 2003). This system makes it possible to obtain data on the changes that take place during sessions throughout therapy by coding events as in-session problems and improvements (CRB1s and CRB2s), outside problems and outside improvements (OP, OI), client session progression (CRR), therapist response to CRB (TCRB), therapist missing or otherwise failing to respond to a CRB (MCRB), evoking a CRB (ECRB), or therapist session progression (TPR).…”