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Assessment Instruments for Personality Disorders
Cognitive therapy uses both categorical and dimensional measures for the assessment of normal and abnormal personalities. Categorical measures, such as structured clinical interviews to determine and document the presence or absence of an Axis II disorder (e.g., SCID-II; First, Spitzer, Gibbon, Williams, & Benjamin, 1994), are often required in clinical and research settings (Beck et […]
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A Proposed Definition of Personality-Related Disorders
All individuals have personalities that can be characterized in terms of the fi ve basic factors, and they are likely to encounter characteristic kinds of life problems, especially when there are confl icts between their dispositions and their life circumstances. To take a relatively benign example, individuals high in O (who value variety) may be […]
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Personality Disorders and taxometric research
The categorical versus dimensional status of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’s (DSM-IV; APA, 1994) axis II is a particularly important question, which taxometric research should play a major role in resolving. Although the DSM-IV represents PDs as distinct categories and diagnoses them as simply present or absent, dimensional models of PDs are […]
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