Assessment of Axis Ii Personality Disorders among Female Substance Abusers

Abstract

16 female substance abusers were assessed for the presence of personality disorders using two structured interviews and two self-report questionnaires. Although high prevalence of personality disorders was detected by each instrument, there was little agreement among the four methods for assessing these disorders.

Substance use during and after pregnancy among a national cohort of pregnant women in opioid maintenance treatment and their partners

“…It may be questioned whether self-completion forms such as MCMI III are as suitable to measure personality disorders as personal structured interviews. Because of the different approach, selfcompletion instruments and interviews are likely to map different dimensions of the same personality disorder or even different PDs [135,136]. However, such differences appear also between different personal structured interviews, such as SCID and MMPI [136].The decision to use MCMI III to evaluate PDs was reached on the background of practical considerations, such as lack of resources to conduct time consuming clinical interviews.…”

An assessment of comorbid psychological problems in a residential criminal justice drug treatment program.

“…One of the limitations of this study was that only the MCMI-II was used to classify psychological problems. Relatively high interscale correlations, as well as modest intra-inventory agreements, raise concerns about the construct validity of some MCMI-II scales (Butler, Gaulier, & Haller, 1991), even though other studies have argued that the MCMI-II is a reliable instrument for assessing psychological problems among substance abusers (Calsyn & Saxon, 1991). Ideally, multiple tools should be used to arrive at convergent classifications.…”