title: PDTRT Special Section: Methodological issues in personality disorder research.
abstract: IntroducesPersonality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatmentongoing Special Section concerned with methodological issues in personality disorder research. This second edition includes two papers, one which discusses the value and advantages of sampling the views, opinions, and perceptions of clinicians in personality disorder research, and the other which takes a critical look at the ways in which structural equation modeling techniques have been used in the study of personality disorders, symptoms, and traits. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: University of Kentucky.
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Widiger
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders