Introduction: OPD (Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis) is a recently introduced semistructured and operationalized method of personality evaluation and diagnosis in developing countries. This preliminary report assess the impact of intensive training on OPD's criterion validity and inter rater reliability. Method: 15 psychotherapists recently introduced to OPD's theory and scoring procedures, rated a clinical interview during an 120 hours intensive training. Three months after training, they were asked to rate the same interview. Results: Concerning criterion validity, training doesn't impact on agreement with expert judgment, but it does on psychotherapeutic relevant items. Concerning inter-rater reliability our data matched already published studies, e.gr. inter-rater reliability of Axis I and IV improves significatively after training.
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