Accumulating evidence supports the reliability and validity of the diagnosis of personality
disorders (PDs) in adolescents, but whether the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of …

OBJECTIVE: The authors investigated the concurrent and predictive validity of the DSM-III-R
diagnosis of personality disorder in adolescents by means of baseline and follow-up …

Abstract The Severity Indices of Personality Problems (SIPP–118; Verheul et al., 2008) is a
self-report questionnaire focusing on core components of (mal) adaptive personality …

Applying personality disorder diagnosis to adolescents is still a controversial topic.
Notwithstanding there is now general agreement that personality disorders have its roots in …

The aim of the present study was to relate and compare two approaches to personality
pathology in adolescents. Dimensions of personality pathology, assessed by the …

The present study aimed to elucidate dimensions of normal and abnormal personality
underlying DSM‐IV personality disorder (PD) symptoms in 168 adolescents referred to …

The classification of personality disorders (PDs) is in transition. The shortcomings of the
categorical PD diagnoses led to the development of the Alternative Model for Personality …

In this article, we offer guiding principles for the assessment of personality disorders (PDs) in
adolescents based on research on the development, manifestations, and impact of PDs in …

In this study we examined the structure, reliability, and validity of the Levels of Personality
Functioning Scale–Self Report (LPFS–SR) in 3 large community samples. The LPFS–SR is …

An understanding of personality pathology in younger populations is severely deficient, due
in part to limitations imposed on youth personality disorder (PD) diagnoses in DSM-IV …