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MCMI-diagnosed personality disorders among agoraphobic outpatients: Prevalence and relationship to severity and treatment outcome
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MCMI-diagnosed personality disorders among agoraphobic outpatients: Prevalence and relationship to severity and treatment outcome

Dianne L. Chambless, Babette Renneberg, Alan Goldstein and Edward J. Gracely
Journal of anxiety disorders, v 6(3), pp 193-211
1992
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0887-6185(92)90033-4
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Abstract

The prevalence of personality disorders among 165 agoraphobic outpatients was assessed with the Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, Versions I or II. Over 90% of clients met criteria for one or more Axis II diagnoses, the most common of which were avoidant and dependent. Scores on the personality scales were not significantly related to agoraphobic avoidance or panic frequency, but were often related to social phobia and dysphoria. Avoidant, dependent, and histrionic, but not severe personality disorders, were significantly associated with one or more indices of outcome for a sample of 64 clients in a naturalistic psychosocial treatment study, whereas paranoid PD was linked with early termination (< 10 sessions). The most consistent predictor was avoidant personality; clients with this Axis II disorder fared more poorly on agoraphobic and social phobic avoidance and on depression.

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Psychiatry
Psychology, Clinical
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