Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Personality Disorders (SCID II), User's Guide

First Michael B. Benjamin Lorna Smith Williams Janet B.W. Spitzer Robert L. Gibbon Miriam

ISBN 10: 0880488107 / ISBN 13: 9780880488105

Published by American Psychiatric Publishing, Incorporated, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Personality Disorders (SCID II), User's Guide
• Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0880488107
• ISBN 13: 9780880488105
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Personality Disorders (SCID-II) is an efficient, user-friendly instrument that will help researchers and clinicians make standardized, reliable, and accurate diagnoses of the 10 DSM-IV Axis II personality disorders as well as depressive personality disorder, passive-aggressive personality disorder, and personality disorder not otherwise specified. Now compatible with DSM-IV, the interview questions have been redesigned to reflect the subject's inner experience. This instrument begins with a brief overview that characterizes the subject's typical behavior and relationships and elicits information about the subject's capacity for self-reflection. It then considers each of the personality disorders in detail.

The User's Guide provides instructions on how to use the SCID-II effectively. It contains sections describing the rationale and structure of the SCID-II and a detailed item-by-item commentary on the SCID-II. A sample case is also included to help clinicians learn to use the SCID-II.

About the Author

Michael B. First, M.D., Miriam Gibbon, M.S.W., Robert L. Spitzer, M.D., Janet B. W. Williams, D.S.W., and Lorna Benjamin, Ph.D., are members of the Biometrics Research Department of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York.