Interrater Reliability of the Psychological Mindedness Assessment Procedure, Extended (Dutch) Version, in a Clinical Patient Population.

The Psychological Mindedness Assessment Procedure, Extended Dutch Version (PMAP-plus), was developed to assess psychological mindedness in mental health care. Psychological Mindedness represents the ability to understand self and others through mental representations of internal psychodynamic states. In patients, deficits in psychological mindedness capacity can cause problems in self- and interpersonal functioning.

Exploring effectiveness of CBT in obese patients with binge eating disorder: personality functioning is associated with clinically significant change.

Background: Binge eating disorder (BED), as the most prevalent eating disorder, is strongly related to obesity and other somatic and psychiatric morbidity. Despite evidence-based treatments a considerable number of BED patients fail to recover. There is preliminary evidence for the association between psychodynamic personality functioning and personality traits on treatment outcome.

[Psychological disorders in the oral healthcare practice. Borderline and other personality disorders].

Personality disorders are prevalent and increase the risk of a range of serious dental problems. In the oral healthcare practice, however, this diagnosis is often not known and the disorder is not always immediately recognizable. Trial and error may bring it to the fore.

[The Dutch Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5-NL): psychometric properties and clinical application].

Background: The Dutch Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5-NL) is the APA recommended questionnaire to assess maladaptive personality traits as defined in the Alternative DSM-5 model of personality disorders.

Aim: To describe of the psychometric qualities of the PID-5-NL, present of normative data and apply the PID-5-NL in clinical practice.

Method: The PID-5-NL was administered in a sample of adults from the general population in Flanders (Belgium) and in a sample of patients with a personality disorder in mental health care in the Netherlands.