Resumen de The empirically supported treatment of borderline personality disorders

José Guimón Ugartechea, Wendy Dávila Wood

• The assessment of efficacy and efficiency of treatment are presently taking on growing importance for the psychiatric practice. For this assessment, scientifically proven therapeuticmeasures or "Empirically Supported Treatments" are applied using techniques such as randomized controlled trials, the meta-analysis and the "Consumer Reports" studies. The present discussion seeks to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of these procedures.