Jennifer L. Price

TL;DR: The validity of the DSM-IV Global Assessment of Functioning Scale as a scale of global psychopathology; the Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale asA measure of problems in social, occupational, and interpersonal functioning; and the Global assessment of Relational Functioned Scale as an index of personality pathology are supported.

TL;DR: The authors found no differences in the percentages of agreement between clinicians and patients in improvement and exacerbation in CSP 420, and the value of multimodal assessment of PTSD treatment outcomes is discussed.

TL;DR: Alexithymic externally oriented thinking and negative affectivity emerged as the most consistent predictors of PTSD symptoms; however, depression was the only variable associated with emotional numbing.

TL;DR: Investigation of the long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse suggested that CSA survivors tend to experience greater psychiatric distress and poorer interpersonal functioning than nonabused clinical controls.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that interpersonal-psychodynamic group therapy is an effective treatment approach for many survivors of childhood sexual abuse.