Personality Assessment in the DSM-5

Steven K. Huprich, Ph.D, is a Professor of Psychology at Eastern Michigan University, USA. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality Disorders and studies the assessment and classification of personality disorders. Christopher J. Hopwood, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Michigan State University, USA. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality Disorders whose research and clinical practice focus on the assessment and treatment of personality pathology.

1. Introduction 2. Personality in DSM-5: Helping Delineate Personality Disorder Content and Framing the Metastructure 3. Toward a Model for Assessing Level of Personality Functioning in DSM-5, Part I: A Review of Theory and Methods 4. Toward a Model for Assessing Level of Personality Functioning in DSM-5, Part II: Empirical Articulation of a Core Dimension of Personality Pathology 5. Contributions from Personality- and Psychodynamically Oriented Assessment to the Development of the DSM-5 Personality Disorders 6. Toward a Multidimensional Model of Personality Disorder Diagnosis: Implications for DSM-5 7. Qualitative and Quantitative Distinctions in Personality Disorder 8. Computerized Adaptive Assessment of Personality Disorder: Introducing the CAT-PD Project 9. Assessing Personality in the DSM-5: The Utility of Bipolar Constructs 10. Personality Traits in the DSM-5