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How are personality disorders assessed? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages for each assessment technique you described? According to Kearney (2023) individuals with a personality disorder have unusual ways of thinking about themselves and others, experiencing and expressing emotions, interacting with others, and controlling impulses. Clinicians often use self-report questionnaires, unstructured clinical interviews, semi-structured clinical interviews, and informant reports to assess personality disorders (Kearney, 2023). Personality disorder questionnaires are easy to administer and economical with respect to time and effort (Kearney, 2023). However, the questionnaire technique is not able to assess the level of impairment, distress and whether symptoms were evident since young adulthood (Kearney, 2023). Unstructured interviews allow a mental health professional to ask any question about personality symptoms (Kearney, 2023). However, they are often less reliable and more susceptible to interview bias than structured interviews (Kearney, 2023). Structured interviews take more time but are systematic, comprehensive, replicable, and objective (Kearney, 2023). Additionally, structured interviews focus more on diagnostic than dimensional aspects personality disorders (Kearney, 2023). Lastly, family members or close friends can provide an important historical perspective on a person’s traits, especially if the informants themselves have no mental disorder (Kearney, 2023). However, the informant reports often conflict with self-reports, and so a clinician may be unsure which perspective is most truthful (Kearney, 2023). Reference: Kearney, C. (2023). Psychopathology and life . Cengage.

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