The Personality Disorder Adjective Check List

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Assess personality disorders with descriptive adjectives

Robert J. Craig Ph.D., ABPP

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The Personality Disorders Adjective Checklist (PDACL) is a brief screening measure for the assessment of personality disorders. It consists of 175 adjectives and adjectival phrases the client uses to describe their attributes.

The PDACL is unique in personality disorder assessment in that the number of items checked is unspecified so that adjectives selected are ones that are salient for the person being evaluated. Administration time varies from five to seven minutes.

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Assessment Scales

The PDACL offers a full sphere of Personality Disorder types. 

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FROM THE PDACL MANUAL

"The Personality Disorder Adjective Checklist (PDACL) is a self-report instrument, using adjective checklist methodology that is designed to measure personality disorders.....[DSM-IV] defines a personality disorder as "an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual's culture, is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment" (629).

Personality disorders have increased in focus and prominence within psychiatry and clinical psychology because:

• DSM-IV requires an evaluation on AXIS II (e.g., personality disorders),
• it is now recognized that personality disorders can affect the course and treatment of Axis I disorders (e.g., clinical syndromes), and because
• they can be the focus of treatment in their own right (Millon, 1984). Thus the need for reliable and valid assessment instruments in this area of inquiry has become pre-potent among clinicians and researchers."

--Robert J. Craig, Personality Disorders Adjective Check List Manual

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REFERENCES

Robert J. Craig's email address:

Additional information about a few of Robert Craig's books:

• Personality-Guided Forensic Psychology
• Counseling the Alcohol and Drug Dependent Client: A Practical Approach
• Assessing Substance Abusers With the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI)

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