This report describes the field testing of two recently developed instruments for treatment evaluation research – the Maudsley Addiction Profile (MAP) and the Treatment Perceptions Questionnaire (TPQ) – in Italy, Portugal and Spain. The MAP and TPQ have been developed in the United Kingdom as brief instruments which contain measures of high face validity for research applications with the adult psychoactive substance use disorder population. The present study assesses the application of these instruments in the continental European context and assesses the internal and test-retest reliabilities of the items. A total of 206 subjects participated in the study (124 subjects participated in the MAP test-retest study, and 95 clients completed the TPQ). Thirteen subjects completed both the MAP and the TPQ questionnaires. Results of the study indicated that the MAP can be administered to clients in 15 min or less. The internal and test-retest reliabilities of the MAP and TPQ are satisfactory. Both instruments are suitable for treatment evaluation and other relevant research purposes in the European Union.

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The present paper is an addendum to a previous study on the work that has been conducted during the eleven sessions of a group analysis training at the Basque Foundation for the Investigation of Mental Health at Bilbao. The participants were presented with an "absurd questionnaire" proposing 50 pairs of images, in each of which one image had to be chosen. The results of the previous study were in favors of the influence of group dynamics on individual choices of the images proposed in the questionnaire. Our present analysis complements the previous work with the exploration of the relations between the orientation of the answers in the groups as results of multiple variable analysis and the distribution of Bernoulli's Entropy. Consistently with the conclusions of the previous paper, we interpret these correlations as group effects in the light of Bion's view of group dynamics, which postulates an immediate onset of a group unconscious and its evolution during the group activity.

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Background: Several quantitative studies support the effectiveness of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) psychosocial skills training group component for adolescents with impulse-control disorder and/or emotional dysregulation. However, qualitative research to assess this psychotherapeutic tool in the adolescent population is sparse. This study aims to examine the subjective experience of adolescents with behavioral issues who have completed DBT skills training group, as well as using this experience to extract hypotheses regarding its usefulness which can then be verified at a later time by means of quantitative instruments. Methods: We developed a qualitative study by using focus groups with adolescents (N = 20) whose diagnosis includes symptoms such as behavior disorder, impulse-control disorder and/or emotional dysregulation, and good informants, who have completed DBT skills training. Three focus groups were created. Results: The subjective experience of adolescents who have completed a DBT skills training group is collected in four main categories: experience of illness, motivation for therapy, experience of therapy and results of the therapy. Conclusions: Adolescents with behavioral problems assess their participation in the DBT skills training group positively, even recommending its usefulness to healthy population. Beyond learning skills, they emphasize the intrapsychic changes (as improvement in reflective activity) that they objectify after the group experience.