Combined individual and group schema therapy outperformed treatment as usual and predominantly group schema therapy for borderline personality disorder, according to results of a randomized clinical trial.
“Early trials of [schema therapy (ST)] demonstrated effectiveness when delivered in an individual format,” Arnoud Arntz, PhD, of the department of clinical psychology at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and colleagues wrote in JAMA Psychiatry. “A large effect was found for group ST delivered as an adjunct to TAU. “However, this group ST was delivered by