The Biomed II IPTRP Project: Implementation of Diagnostic Instruments

The Role of Gender Differences and Other Client Characteristics in the Prevalence of DSM-IV Affective Disorders Among a European Therapeutic Community Population

“…The data collection in the IPTRP project has been described in detail elsewhere [27,28]. The European Addiction Severity Index (EuropASI) [29] was used for most clients (n = 863).…”

Problem severity profiles of substance abusing women in European Therapeutic Communities: Influence of psychiatric problems

“…Under the influence of American researchers it became increasingly clear that the drug problem was not an isolated problem, but a complex constellation of intervening factors (Carroll & McGinley, 1998;De Leon & Jainchill, 1991). The reciprocal influence of medical (Brown, Melchior, Waite-O'Brien, & Huba, 2002), social and psychological problems (Jainchill, Hawke, & Yagelka, 2000), and comorbid psychiatric disorders (Brown et al, 2002;Carroll & McGinley, 1998) became generally accepted and further investigated by European researchers (Broekaert, Haack et al, 2002;Ravndal & Vaglum, 1994). In turn, TC staff members gained awareness of the high rate of psychiatric comorbidity among the substanceabusing population seeking treatment and learned that the nature and severity of the problems differ greatly between major subgroups.…”

“…The project, subsidized by the Fourth Framework Program of the European Commission BIOMED II (Biomedicine and Health Research), was coordinated by Maastricht University in the Netherlands in close collaboration with Ghent University in Belgium. The first results of the IPTRP project have now been published (Broekaert, Haack et al, 2002;Frank et al, 2001;Kaplan et al, 2001;Ravndal et al, 2001;Reichmann, Kaplan, & Jansson, 2001, Segraeus et al, in press). …”

“…More studies report on the nature and severity of psychological and psychiatric problems of women in treatment (De Leon & Jainchill, 1991;Ravndal, 1994). In the European Therapeutic Communities (TC), a culture of psychiatric assessment and research has been slowly but surely developing (Broekaert, Haack et al, 2002). This changing culture opens possibilities to investigate whether women in mainstream TC treatment suffer from underestimated psychiatric problems that may impair their recovery process.…”

Problem Severity Profiles of Clients in European Therapeutic Communities: Gender Differences in Various Areas of Functioning

“…The whole was coordinated by the Maastricht University in the Netherlands in close collaboration with the Ghent University in Belgium. Results of the IPTRP project have been published in several articles [1,21,22,[26][27][28][29][30][31] .…”