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Plate tectonics in the classification of personality disorder: shifting to a dimensional model.

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It may be time to consider a shift to a dimensional classification of personality disorder that would help address the failures of the existing diagnostic categories as well as contribute to an integration of the psychiatric diagnostic manual with psychology's research on general personality structure.
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The diagnostic categories of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders were developed in the spirit of a traditional medical model that considers mental disorders to be qualitatively distinct conditions (see, e.g., American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Work is now beginning on the fifth edition of this influential diagnostic manual. It is perhaps time to consider a fundamental shift in how psychopathology is conceptualized and diagnosed. More specifically, it may be time to consider a shift to a dimensional classification of personality disorder that would help address the failures of the existing diagnostic categories as well as contribute to an integration of the psychiatric diagnostic manual with psychology's research on general personality structure.

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Incremental validity of maladaptive schemas over five-factor model facets in the prediction of personality disorder symptoms

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the prediction of personality disorder symptoms from early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) and the facets of the five-factor model of personality (FFM).
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Cluster A maladaptive personality patterns in a non-clinical adolescent population

TL;DR: New clues are yielded that improve the understanding of Cluster A traits in this sector of the population, and advance in early detection of adolescents at risk of personality disorders.
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Authors' Response. Working towards integration of personality structure, process, and development

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors strengthened some of the main proposals of their framework to integrate research on personality structure, process, and development, and discussed how observed structural differences between measures taken over different time scales or within and between individuals can inform hypotheses about shared and unique causal mechanisms.
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Construct validity in psychological tests.

TL;DR: The present interpretation of construct validity is not "official" and deals with some areas where the Committee would probably not be unanimous, but the present writers are solely responsible for this attempt to explain the concept and elaborate its implications.
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