Current Directions in Classification and Conceptualization of Personality Disorders
Dr. Robert Krueger is Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He completed his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his clinical internship at Brown University. Professor Krueger’s major interests lie at the intersection of research on psychopathology, personality, behavior genetics, health, and aging. He has received several major awards, including the University of Minnesota McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, the American Psychological Association’s Award for Early Career Contributions, the Award for Early Career Contributions from the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, the Paul Hoch award from the American Psychopathological Association, and an American Psychological Foundation Theodore Millon Award. He is a Fellow of the American Psychopathological Association (APPA) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS). He has been named a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher, and Research.com ranks him in the top 100 most impactful psychological researchers in the world. He is also editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders. Read more.
Talk Title: Current Directions in Classification and Conceptualization of Personality Disorders
Learning Objectives:
1) Understand the history and limitations of categorical approaches to defining and diagnosing personality disorders (PD) in psychiatric nosology.
2) Describe reasons why the PD field is shifting toward more empirically-based and dimensional conceptualizations of PD in authoritative nosologies (e.g., ICD and DSM).
3) Articulate the clinical utility of empirically-based and dimensional conceptualizations of PD.