Approaches to Treatment
According to your Sperry text, this approach is the treatment of choice for the psychosocial treatment of personality disorders.
CBT
Individuals with this attachment style have a sense of personal unworthiness and a positive evaluation of others.
Preoccupied attachment style
A pattern of submissive and clinging behavior related to an excessive need to be taken care of.
Dependent personality disorder
The optimal diagnostic criterion for this disorder is criminal, aggressive, impulsive, and irresponsible behavior.
Antisocial personality disorder
This approach to treatment involves identifying maladaptive schemas, deciding the appropriate level of change, and planning interventions to effect this level or degree of change.
Schema therapy
Individuals with this attachment style exhibit a sense of personal unworthiness combined with an expectation that others are rejecting and untrustworthy.
Fearful attachment style
A pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity.
Borderline personality disorder
Characteristics of this disorder involves a behavioral style of self-dramatization, suggestibility, and charming and excitement seeking.
Histrionic disorder
This approach to treatment is based on developing nonjudgmental awareness of thoughts, feelings, and experiences in the present moment.
Mindfulness-based
Individuals with this attachment style are characterized by a sense of self that is worthy and positive, as well as a low and negative evaluation of others.
Dismissing attachment style
A pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy.
Narcissistic personality disorder
Characteristics of this personality disorder involves a triggering event of the evaluation of self.
Narcissistic personality disorder
This approach to treatment was developed by Len Sperry and emphasizes pattern identification and pattern change.
Pattern-focused therapy
Individuals with this attachment style have a self-view that is negative and an other-view that vacillates between positive and negative.
Preoccupied-fearful attachment style
A pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Characteristics of this personality disorder involves a self-view of, "I'm inadequate and frightened of rejection".
Avoidant personality disorder
This approach to treatment places a larger emphasis on emotion regulation rather than maladaptive thought processes and includes four primary modes of treatment: individual therapy, group skills training, telephone contact, and therapist consultation.
DBT
Individuals with this attachment style possess a self-view that is negative and an other-view that vacillates between positive and negative.
Preoccupied-fearful attachment style
A pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of emotional expression.
Schizoid personality disorder
Characteristics of this personality disorder involves a cognitive style that is constricted (rule-based), inflexible, and unimaginative.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
In this approach to treatment, the overall goal for treatment is to identify the discrepancy between what clients want to happen in a particular situation and what has happened or is actually happening.
CBASP (Cognitive Behavior Analysis System of Psychotherapy)
Individuals with this attachment style vacillate between negative and positive views of self and others.
Disorganized attachment style
A pattern of acute discomfort in social relationships, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and eccentricities of behavior.
Schizotypal personality disorder
Characteristics of this personality disorder includes a worldview of, "Life is a difficult place and can be harmful. Therefore, trust no-one and keep distance from others and you won't get hurt".
Schizoid personality disorder