Assessment and Diagnosis of Personality Disorders: The ICD-10 International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE)

by Armand W. Loranger (Editor), Aleksandar Janca (Editor), Norman Sartorius (Editor)

Overview

Until recently, the diagnosis and assessment of personality disorders had lagged considerably behind that of most other mental disorders. The IPDE is a new instrument that is compatible, through two modules, with both ICD-10 and DSM-IV criteria. In the form of a semistructured clinical interview, it now provides a means of measuring major categories of personality disorders that previously had been ignored. It is also unique in that it seeks to secure reliable and uniform diagnosis that is both internationally and cross-culturally acceptable. Written by leading international authorities, this volume forms an invaluable reference manual to the IPDE instrument and its development. The book's first section includes an overview of the worldwide field trials of the interview and aspects of epidemiology that affect the current status of diagnosis and assessment research. The second section, detailing the full interview schedule and scoring system for the instrument, will further facilitate its use.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521580434
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/17/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

Contributors; Preface Armand W. Loranger, Aleksandar Janca and Norman Sartorius; Acknowledgements; Part I. Background and Field Trial; Section 1. Background: 1. Problems in the field of personality disorder Alv A. Dahl and Antonio Andreoli; 2. Review of diagnostic instruments for the assessment of personality disorders Armand W. Loranger; 3. Epidemiology of DSM-III personality disorders in the community and in clinical populations James H. Reich and Giovanni de Girolamo; 4. International personality disorder examination (IPDE) Armand W. Loranger; 5. Experiences with the IPDE Alv A. Dahl and Antonio Andreoli; Section 2. Field Trial: 6. Sampling, interviewers, interview procedures Werner Mombour; 7. Description of centres participating in the IPDE field trial Aleksandar Janca and Charles Pull; 8. Results Armand W. Loranger; 9. Discussion and conclusions Armand W. Loranger; Appendix; Part II. International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE) ICD-10 module; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"The authors and editors are leading international authorities in psychiatry, psychology, and pesonality assessment...a formal and detailed manual for the use and administration of the IPDE." Kelly E. Arduino, Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal

From the Publisher

This book introduces a new semi-structured clinical interview, the International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE), which allows for the diagnosis of personality disorders according to the ICD-10 and DSM-IV. The purpose is to acquaint the reader with the developmental history of the IPDE, present its psychometric properties, and discuss the administration and scoring of the instrument. Researchers, specifically in the fields of psychiatry and psychology, are the primary audience for this academically driven book. Experienced clinicians in need of an instrument to standardize assessment and diagnosis of personality disorders could also benefit from reviewing the IPDE. The authors and editors are leading international authorities in psychiatry, psychology, and personality assessment. Primarily for reference, the book contains numerous citations about the rationale for the instrument and the field trials that contributed to its development. The appendix contains the full interview schedule and instructions on scoring procedures of the IPDE. Also, the statistical breakdown of the psychometric properties is fully detailed within this book. This book is actually a formal and detailed manual for the use and administration of the IPDE. It is priced as an academic resource book, primarily for the serious researcher. The nature of the instrument itself limits the audience for which this book would be useful. The authors appropriately recommend that the IPDE be used only by experienced psychiatrists and psychologists, not by students. The IPDE reflects changes that have occurred in the classification of personality disorders for the internationally used ICD-10 and the AmericanPsychiatric Association's DSM-IV.

Kelly E. Arduino