User's Guide for the SCID-5-PD Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Personality Disorders ─ Also Contains Instructions for the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Screening Personality Question

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 User's Guide for the SCID-5-PD contains essential guidance for use of the SCID-5-PD, and the optional SCID-5-SPQ can serve as a brief, 20-minute self-report screening tool to reduce the time of the SCID-5-PD clinical interview. The SCID-5-PD will serve as a valuable resource to help clinicians and researchers more accurately diagnose Personality Disorders.

Michael B. First M.D., is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and a Research Psychiatrist at the Division of Clinical Phenomenology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Janet B.W. Williams, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Clinical Psychiatric Social Work (in Psychiatry and Neurology), Columbia University and Senior Vice President of Global Science, at MedAvante, Inc.

Lorna Smith Benjamin, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Professor Emerita of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Robert L. Spitzer, M.D., is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Columbia University.