ALLMedicine™ Personality Disorders Center

May 17th, 2022 - The current investigation asseses the relationship between DSM personality disorders (PDs) and PCL psychopathy in a community study: the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD). The children (Generation 3) of the original CSDD males (Gene...

May 14th, 2022 - Empirical evidence documents disparities in the diagnosis of severe forms of psychopathology among racial/ethnic minority persons. However, research on diagnostic differences in personality disorders is equivocal: Some suggest higher prevalence of...

May 6th, 2022 - The Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders and the latest eleventh version of the International Classification of Diseases implement the level of impairment in self and interpersonal personality functioning (Level of Personality Functio...

May 6th, 2022 - Case formulation is a central tool for psychotherapists, which helps them tailor psychotherapy to the individual patient, particularly for treatments for complex and multilayered clinical problems, such as personality disorders (Kramer, 2019). Cas...

May 6th, 2022 - According to the alternative model for personality disorders (AMPD) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), a moderate or greater impairment in personality functioning is the essential criterion for a p...

Dec 6th, 2011 - Suicide is a major public health problem in the WHO European Region accounting for over 150,000 deaths per year. SUICIDAL CRISIS: Acute intervention should start immediately in order to keep the patient alive. An underlying psychiatric disorder is...

Jul 25th, 2009 - We examined changes in avoidant and dependent personality disorder dimensions, and pre-treatment and in-treatment factors associated with such changes in 77 patients, randomized to medication-free residential cognitive (CT) or residential interper...

Dec 2nd, 2008 - As people live longer, there is increasing potential for mental disorders to interfere with testamentary distribution and render older people more vulnerable to "undue influence" when they are making a will. Accordingly, clinicians dealing with th...

Apr 14th, 2022 - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is frequently associated with emotional dysregulation (ED). ED is characterized by excessive and inappropriate emotional reactions compared to social norms, uncontrolled and rapide shifts in emotion ...

Feb 18th, 2022 - - The participants will be assessed for their eligibility based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. After obtaining the written informed consent, the eligible participants will be randomized to either an intervention or a control group. Psychiatr...

Jan 31st, 2022 - The patients are assessed with three rating scales (Components of agitation, The PANSS-EC, The Brøset Violence Checklist) measuring agitation at admittance and day three thus providing a measurement of the differences during three days of in-patie...

Sep 30th, 2021 - The present study wish to compare the preliminarily effects and feasibility of Modified Collaborative Assessment (MCA) - a novel therapeutic approach to diagnostic assessment - with assessment-as-usual (AAU) among patients with evasiveness as a co...

Sep 8th, 2021 - Background: Mental illness has an estimated financial burden on the Danish economy of 3.4 % of Gross National Product every year due to lost productivity, social benefits and healthcare costs and approximately 50 % of people receiving long-term si...

Feb 1st, 2022 - SECOND OF 2 PARTS Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with serious impairment in psychosocial functioning. 1 It is characterized by an ongoing pattern of mood instability, cognitive distortions, problems with self-image, and impulsi.

Nov 8th, 2021 - Telehealth is safe and effective for the treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and may even have an edge over in-person treatment, new research suggests. Investigators compared BPD outcomes with therapy delivered in-person and via tel...

Oct 11th, 2021 - People with mental health conditions have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research published in  The Lancet Regional Health – Europe . The findings suggest that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing heal...

Sep 23rd, 2021 - As medical school faculty members – and our students – know well, the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to become creative and shift much of our curricula online. Many hospitals chose to limit medical student rotations because of safety concerns.

Sep 21st, 2021 - Borderline personality disorder (BPD) has suffered from underdiagnosis, in part because not enough clinicians know how to handle patients with BPD. "They don't have the tools to know how to manage these situations effectively," Lois W. Choi-Kain, ...