Publications by authors named "Robin P A van der Linde"
Exploring the links between dissociative experiences, schemas, modes, and coping.
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry
August 2025
This study explored the relationships between dissociative experiences, childhood trauma, maladaptive schemas, schema modes, and schema coping in a nonclinical sample. Three theoretical models were tested: (1) dissociative experiences resulting from schema mode activation, (2) dissociative experiences as an innate trait shaping schema coping, and (3) dissociative experiences arising from childhood trauma that influence coping strategies. Data from 401 Dutch psychology students were analyzed using path analyses to compare model fit.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe role of dissociation-related beliefs about memory in trauma-focused treatment.
Eur J Psychotraumatol
October 2023
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to explore how beliefs about memory related to dissociation impact trauma-focused treatment in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), particularly those with the dissociative subtype.
- Researchers assessed PTSD symptoms and dissociative beliefs in a sample of 111 patients, finding that those with the dissociative subtype had higher levels of these beliefs before treatment, which decreased after trauma-focused therapy.
- Contrary to initial expectations, the study concluded that higher levels of dissociation-related beliefs did not adversely affect treatment outcomes for PTSD patients.
Objective: The schema mode model offers a new conceptualisation of complex dissociative disorders (CDD) as it explains shifts between identities as shifts between schema modes. Furthermore, in this model CDD is conceived as personality pathology, incorporating core features of personality disorders. This study tested the assumptions of this schema mode model of CDD.
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