Relating DSM-5 Section II and Section III Personality Disorder Diagnostic Classification Systems to Treatment Planning

Beginning with DSM-III, the inclusion of a “personality” axis was designed to encourage awareness of personality disorders and the treatment-related implications of individual differences, but since that time there is little accumulated evidence that the personality disorder categories provide substantial treatment-related guidance. The DSM-5 Personality and Personality Disorders Work Group sought to develop an Alternative Model for personality disorder, and this study examined whether this model is more closely related to clinicians’ decision-making processes than the traditional categorical personality disorder diagnoses.

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - March 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Leslie C. Morey, Kathryn T. Benson Source Type: research