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Longitudinal Naturalistic Studies

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This paper summarizes the article, “A Longitudinal Naturalistic Study of Patients With Dissociative Disorders Treated by Community Clinicians” (Brand, McNary, Classen, Loewenstein, Myrick, Lanius & Pain, et al., 2009). Reviewing this article revealed DID presents numerous challenges for the practitioners who perform assessments for a clinical diagnosis. Most Professionals approach this disorder with caution because of it's interrelated problems, as well as the on going controversies surrounding DID. So, in order for this study to work effectively, there would need to be a wide variety of people who deal with this disorder. Patients would include people from different countries all ethnic back grounds, and a large scale of psychological doctors. …show more content…

Between the time span of the study of diverse patients, the naturalistic study sees how well the patients function in society. It involves observing participants in their natural environment. This kind of research is often used in situations, conducting laboratory research because it is cost prohibitive, impractical, or would immensely impact the participant's behavior. The reason why this research is necessary is because there has not been a lot of research on what treatment is most effective for this disorder. Therapists and patients in a community were recruited for the existing …show more content…

However, researchers measured how frequent the patients displayed positive behavior throughout the study. As time went on they didn't see the effect they wanted when using "statistical programming environment R,"(304) so they started a new method called "PITQ,"(303) which was specifically designed for DID, it showed remarkable data improvements. The results and implication of that were measured were going out into society, doing constructive stuff, and continuing with therapy, or whether they were hospitalized or not. The odds of hospitalization were reduced each month and the likelihood of participating in social activities increased. Moreover, additional patients reported that there was a notable decrease of self-harm in the thirty-day time frame. The authors discovered that treatment done on patients with DD through the “naturalistic observational”(301) study was associated with the improvement of

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