Personality Functioning, Problems in Living and Personality Traits


Wednesday, November 6, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EST)
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Category: Grand Rounds

The publication of the Alternative Model of Personality Disorder (AMPD) was a signpost achievement in the personality assessment. However, research on the AMPD has generally not led to either a deeper understanding of personality disorder or personality assessment or new ideas about how to provide better care for people with personality disorder diagnoses. A significant portion of research has focused on narrow issues and appears to be driven in part by ideological differences between scholars who prefer Criterion A (personality functioning) or Criterion B (maladaptive traits). This webinar will talk about one perspective on how these issues trace to ambiguity about the concept of personality functioning as defined in the AMPD and its conceptual distinction from personality traits and problems in living. This webinar will reground these concepts in coherent and distinct definitions, elaborate upon the implications of their differences, and show how these differences can help clarify and reorient AMPD research to focus on generating clinically useful models for personality pathology and personality assessment.

Presenter: Dr. Chris Hopwood

Learning Objectives:

  • Synthesize research on the alternative model of personality disorder 
  • Distinguish personality functioning from personality traits and problems in living

  • Apply the alternative model of personality disorder to clinical assessment


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Personality Functioning, Problems in Living and Personality Traits
Presenter: Chris Hopwood
Registration Ends 11/7/24 at 12:00 AM EST
FREE
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Non-Member Student Registration
Personality Functioning, Problems in Living and Personality Traits
Presenter: Chris Hopwood
Registration Ends 11/7/24 at 12:00 AM EST
$39.00
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Personality Functioning, Problems in Living and Personality Traits
Presenter: Christopher Hopwood
Registration Ends 11/7/24 at 12:00 AM EST
$45.00
Non-Member Registration
Personality Functioning, Problems in Living and Personality Traits
Presenter: Christopher Hopwood.

Registration Ends 11/7/24 at 12:00 AM EST
$50.00
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