Revolutionizing Personality Disorder Diagnosis: Understanding the DSM-5's Alternative Model of Personality Disorders (AMPD) and its Clinical Implications with Dr. Robert Krueger Part 1

Psychotherapy and Applied Psychology: Conversations with research experts about mental health and psychotherapy for those interested in research, practice, and training

Join in on another brilliant episode of Psychotherapy & Applied Psychology. This week, Dan is joined by Dr. Robert Krueger and discuss the ongoing studies of personality disorders.
Dr. Krueger is a clinical psychologist and member of the DSM-5 Personality Disorders Workgroup. Dan and Dr. Krueger discuss the importance of understanding a person's personality in clinical case conceptualization as well as the tension between wanting to make psychiatric classification more scientifically justifiable and clinically beneficial. Dr. Krueger provides an overview of the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) and the criteria for diagnosis, as well as the distinction between criterion A (self-related dysfunction) and criterion B (personality traits).
Stay tuned for Part 2!
Special Guest:
Dr. Rober Krueger
HiTop Website
The Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5)
Practitioner's Guide to the Alternative Model of Personality Disorders
Keywords: personality disorders, DSM-5, clinical case conceptualization, alternative model, AMPD, diagnostic criteria, self-related dysfunction, personality traits, psychiatric classification
Takeaways
Understanding a person's personality is important in clinical case conceptualization.
The decision-making process behind the alternative model for personality disorders involved considering the scientific evidence and the impact on individuals who have already been diagnosed.
The Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) includes criterion A (self-related dysfunction) and criterion B (personality traits).
There is a tension between making psychiatric classification more scientifically justifiable and clinically beneficial while considering the impact on individuals.
Self-report measures for criterion A may have limitations, and additional perspectives, such as expert judgments and collateral data, can provide a more comprehensive understanding of personality pathology.
Sound Bites
"I find it hard to do clinical case conceptualization without thinking about a person's personality."
"The DSM exerts a strong kind of way of influencing the way people think about cases and in our culture more broadly."
"The DSM-5 Personality Disorders Workgroup had a number of psychologists involved, which is somewhat unusual."

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