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- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Etiology
- Part II Models
- Part III Individual Disorders and Clusters
- Part IV Assessment
- 14 Methods and Current Issues in Dimensional Assessments of Personality Pathology
- 14a The Clinical Utility and Applications of Dimensional Assessments of Personality Pathology: Commentary on Methods and Current Issues in Dimensional Assessments of Personality Pathology
- 14b New and Continuing Developments in the Assessment of Personality Disorders: Commentary on Methods and Current Issues in Dimensional Assessments of Personality Pathology
- 14c The Importance of Multiple Sources, Longitudinal Assessment, and Clinical Utility: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on Methods and Current Issues in Dimensional Assessments of Personality Pathology
- 15 Categorical Assessment of Personality Disorders: Considerations of Reliability and Validity
- 15a Categories, Constructs, and the Assessment of Personality Pathology: Commentary on Categorical Assessment of Personality Disorders
- 15b The Need for a More Rigorous Approach to Diagnostic Reliability: Commentary on Categorical Assessment of Personality Disorders
- 15c Balancing Hopeful and Pessimistic Views of the Future of Categorical Assessment: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on Categorical Assessment of Personality Disorders
- 16 Assessment of Mechanisms in Personality Disorders
- 16a Parts, Wholes, and Explanations of Personality and Its Pathologies: Commentary on Assessment of Mechanisms in Personality Disorders
- 16b Genetic and Environmental Mechanisms in BPD over the Lifespan: Commentary on Assessment of Mechanisms in Personality Disorders
- 16c Complexity and Transactions: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on Assessment of Mechanisms in Personality Disorders
- Part V Treatment
- Index
- References
14b - New and Continuing Developments in the Assessment of Personality Disorders: Commentary on Methods and Current Issues in Dimensional Assessments of Personality Pathology
from Part IV - Assessment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Etiology
- Part II Models
- Part III Individual Disorders and Clusters
- Part IV Assessment
- 14 Methods and Current Issues in Dimensional Assessments of Personality Pathology
- 14a The Clinical Utility and Applications of Dimensional Assessments of Personality Pathology: Commentary on Methods and Current Issues in Dimensional Assessments of Personality Pathology
- 14b New and Continuing Developments in the Assessment of Personality Disorders: Commentary on Methods and Current Issues in Dimensional Assessments of Personality Pathology
- 14c The Importance of Multiple Sources, Longitudinal Assessment, and Clinical Utility: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on Methods and Current Issues in Dimensional Assessments of Personality Pathology
- 15 Categorical Assessment of Personality Disorders: Considerations of Reliability and Validity
- 15a Categories, Constructs, and the Assessment of Personality Pathology: Commentary on Categorical Assessment of Personality Disorders
- 15b The Need for a More Rigorous Approach to Diagnostic Reliability: Commentary on Categorical Assessment of Personality Disorders
- 15c Balancing Hopeful and Pessimistic Views of the Future of Categorical Assessment: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on Categorical Assessment of Personality Disorders
- 16 Assessment of Mechanisms in Personality Disorders
- 16a Parts, Wholes, and Explanations of Personality and Its Pathologies: Commentary on Assessment of Mechanisms in Personality Disorders
- 16b Genetic and Environmental Mechanisms in BPD over the Lifespan: Commentary on Assessment of Mechanisms in Personality Disorders
- 16c Complexity and Transactions: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on Assessment of Mechanisms in Personality Disorders
- Part V Treatment
- Index
- References
Summary
The authors of this commentary aim to expand on particular points covered in the chapter by Evans, Williams and Simms, and discuss other issues that were not covered there. First, they discuss future research directions for, and the potential utility of, multisource assessments of personality pathology. Second, they emphasize the need for aspects of clinical utility within some of the reviewed measures (e.g., norms, validity scales). Third, they discuss the need for further examinations into the feasibility and utility of longitudinal assessments of personality pathology (e.g., dynamics in the context of treatment). Fourth, they describe two recent measures of personality pathology that warrant further validation. Lastly, they emphasize the need for a conceptual and measurement-based consensus regarding the multidimensional nature of personality pathology as a whole.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders , pp. 350 - 353Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020