title: Proposed changes in personality and personality disorder assessment and diagnosis for DSM-5 Part II: Clinical application.
abstract: The four-part assessment of personality psychopathology proposed for DSM-5 focuses attention on identifying personality psychopathology with increasing degrees of specificity, based on a clinician's available time, information, and expertise. In Part I of this two-part article, we described the components of the new model and presented brief rationales for them. In Part II, we illustrate the clinical application of the model with vignettes of patients with varying degrees of personality psychopathology, selected from the DSM-IV-TR Casebook, to show how assessments might be conducted and diagnoses reached.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Tucson, USA. askodol@gmail.com
authors.forename: Andrew E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Skodol
authors.forename: Donna S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Bender
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Oldham
authors.forename: Lee Anna
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: Leslie C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Morey
authors.forename: Roel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Verheul
authors.forename: Robert F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Krueger
authors.forename: Larry J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Siever
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010551:Personality / Q000145:classification*; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D012919:Social Behavior; D055815:Young Adult