Personality Disorders in DSM-5: Emerging Research on the Alternative Model

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Morey, Leslie C ^a   Benson, Kathryn T ^a   Busch, Alexander J ^a   Skodol, Andrew E ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative model; DSM 5; Personality disorders

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DSM-5; DSM-III; DSM-IV; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENTAL INSTABILITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924405846     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-015-0558-0     Document Type: Review

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