Personality Disorders and the Five-Factor Model of Personality

Author:   Thomas Arthur Widiger ,  Paul T. Costa, Jr.
Publisher:   American Psychological Association
Edition:   Third Edition
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Pages:   468
Publication Date:   15 September 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Thomas Arthur Widiger ,  Paul T. Costa, Jr.
Publisher:   American Psychological Association
Imprint:   Magination Press, (American Psychological Association)
Edition:   Third Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   1.379kg
ISBN:  

9781433811661


ISBN 10:   1433811669
Pages:   468
Publication Date:   15 September 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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""For clinicians and personality researchers, this book provides great insight into cutting-edge models of personality and helps to effect a paradigm shift in our understanding of both normal personality and personality disorders."" - Doody's Review Service


For clinicians and personality researchers, this book provides great insight into cutting-edge models of personality and helps to effect a paradigm shift in our understanding of both normal personality and personality disorders. - Doody's Review Service


"""For clinicians and personality researchers, this book provides great insight into cutting-edge models of personality and helps to effect a paradigm shift in our understanding of both normal personality and personality disorders."" - Doody's Review Service"


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Thomas A. Widiger, PhD, is the T. Marshall Hahn Professor of Psychology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He received his PhD from Miami University, Miami, Ohio, and completed his internship at Cornell University Medical Center, Westchester, New York. He is currently associate editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders, the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, the Journal of Personality Assessment, and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. He was the research coordinator for the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM amp ndash IV), a member of the DSM amp ndash IV Personality Disorders Work Group, and a cochair of the 2 4 American Psychiatric Association DSM amp ndash 5 Research Planning Conference, amp quot Dimensional Models of Personality Disorder. amp quot His primary interest has been the integration of the American Psychiatric Association's personality disorder nomenclature with the dimensional classification of personality structure, particularly as the latter is conceptualized within the five-factor model. He also conducts research and writes papers concerning diagnosis, classification, the philosophy of science, personality disorders and personality disorder assessment, structured interviews and self-report inventories, gender bias, and clinical utility. He has authored of coauthored approximately 4 articles and chapters. In 2 9, he received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology.   Paul T. Costa Jr., PhD, is adjunct professor of medical psychology at the Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and holds a joint appointment as professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. Until 2 9, he was chief of the Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, National Institute on Aging, Biomedical Research Center, in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Costa received his doctorate from the University of Chicago and taught at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston before moving to Baltimore in 978. His enduring interests are in the structure and measurement of personality and in life-span development. His other research interests include health psychology, personality disorders, and the neurobiology and molecular genetics of personality. With his long-term collaborator, Robert McCrae, Dr. Costa developed the Neuroticism amp ndash Extroversion amp ndash Openness (NEO) personalty inventories, including the NEO PI amp ndash 3, the NEO PI amp ndash R, and the NEO amp ndash FFI, which are designed to operationalize the five-factor model (FFM). Not only has he been a leading contributor to the development of the FFM, but with Dr. McCrae he continues to develop the FFM. He has authored and coauthored approximately 4 papers and chapters. He is past president of several national and international personality organizations and the recipient of several awards, including the Distinguished Contribution Award from APA's Division 2 (Adult Development and Aging) and the Jack Block Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.  

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