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Quaderni di Psicoterapia Cognitiva - Open Access

Sezione Generale - Linee guida per i disturbi sintomatici

No. 54 (2024)

Role of CBT and suggestions for good clinical practice in the treatment of different forms of dissociation and dissociative disorders

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/qpc54-2024oa18656
Submitted
ottobre 10, 2024
Published
2024-10-17

Abstract

The formulation of precise guidelines for the treatment of dissociative disorders is hampered by the lack of an agreed definition of dissociation. On the contrary, there is unanimous agreement among experts that the term dissociation improperly groups together a vast and heterogeneous group of psychopathological manifestations sustained by different pathogenetic processes that spread throughout psychiatric clinical pictures, complicating their treatment. In view of this limitation, the review reports the guidelines for the treatment of certain dissociative manifestations of the Blue Knot Foundation (2020) of the Australian government’s Department of Health and the guidelines for the treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DDI), the most severe dissociative disorder, drawn up by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation – ISSTD.

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