Examination of the Section III DSM-5 diagnostic system for personality disorders in an outpatient clinical sample.

ABSTRACT: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013), includes a novel approach to the diagnosis of personality disorders (PDs) in Section III, to stimulate further research with the possibility that this proposal will be included more formally in future DSM iterations. This study provides the 1st test of this proposal in a clinical sample by simultaneously examining its 2 primary components: a system for rating personality impairment and a newly developed dimensional model of pathological personality traits. Participants were community adults currently receiving outpatient mental health treatment who completed a semistructured interview for DSM-IV PDs and were then rated in terms of personality impairment and pathological trait

SUBMITTER: Few LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4105005 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature