Practitioner's Guide to the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders

I. Understanding the Client’s Personality

1. How Can the Alternative Model of Personality Disorders Support Our Clinical Work?

2. Levels of Personality Functioning

3. Personality Traits

4. General Human Factors and Whole-Person-Assessment

II. Psychological Treatment Informed by the AMPD

5. Assessment and Reporting in Clinical Practice

6. Providing Feedback and Forming Alliance

7. Treatment planning, Psychotherapy, and Evaluation

III. Specific Clinical Applications of the AMPD

8. Application with Neurotic and Restrictive Patterns

9. Application with Dramatic and Negativistic Patterns

10. Application with Impulse-Control Problems and Addictions

11. Application with Psychopathy and Forensic Evaluation

12. Application with Other Persistent Mental Disorders

Conclusion

References

Index