User's Guide for the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Personality Disorders (SCID-5-PD)

The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Personality
Disorders (SCID-5-PD) is a semistructured diagnostic interview for
clinicians and researchers to assess the 10 DSM-5 Personality Disorders
across Clusters A, B, and C as well as Other Specified Personality Disorder.
Designed to build rapport, the SCID-5-PD can be used to make personality
disorder diagnoses, either categorically (present or absent) or
dimensionally. The SCID-5-PD includes the indispensable User's Guide
for the SCID-5-PD, as well as a handy self-report screening
questionnaire for patients or subjects, the Structured Clinical Interview
for DSM-5 Screening Personality Questionnaire
(SCID-5-SPQ).

The SCID-5-PD is the updated version of the former
Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Personality Disorders
(SCID-II). The SCID-5-PD name reflects the elimination of the multiaxial
system in DSM-5. Although the DSM-IV Personality Disorder criteria are
unchanged in DSM-5, the SCID-5-PD interview questions have been thoroughly
reviewed and revised to optimally capture the construct embodied in the
diagnostic criteria. In addition, a dimensional scoring component has been
added to the SCID-5-PD.

The basic structure of the SCID-5-PD is
similar to the other SCID-5 interviews (such as the Research Version,
SCID-5-RV; and the Clinician Version, SCID-5-CV) that cover non-personality
DSM-5 disorders. Features include the following:


* Questions assessing the DSM-5 criteria for each of the 10 personality
disorders: Avoidant Personality Disorder, Dependent Personality Disorder,
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder,
Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Histrionic
Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Borderline
Personality Disorder, and Antisocial Personality Disorder.
* A User's
Guide for the SCID-5-PD containing essential guidance for use of the
SCID-5-PD, including an appendix of a completed SCID-5-PD and SCID-5-SPQ for
a sample patient.
* An optional SCID-5-SPQ that serves as a brief,
20-minute self-report screening tool to reduce the time of the SCID-5-PD
clinical interview. The SCID-5-SPQ requires an eighth grade or higher
reading level (as determined by the Flesch-Kincaid formula). Its 106
questions correspond directly to each first question in the full SCID-5-PD.


The SCID-5-PD can be used in various types of research studies, just
as the SCID-II. It has been used to investigate patterns of Personality
Disorders co-occurring with other mental disorders or medical conditions;
select a group of study subjects with a particular Personality Disorder;
investigate the underlying structure of personality pathology; and compare
with other assessment methods for Personality Disorders.

The SCID-5-PD
will serve as a valuable resource to help clinicians and researchers more
accurately diagnose Personality Disorders.