Description: With collaborators (John F. Clarkin, WCMC; Mark Lenzenweger, SUNY Binghamton; Steven Huprich, Univ. of Detroit-Mercy; Caleb Siefert, U Michigan Dearborn), we have contributed to shifting conceptualizations of personality
disorders in the DSM-5, which included an Alternate Model of Personality
Disorder (AMPD) likely to be adopted in future revisions, with a relatively
underdeveloped Criterion A assessing personality functioning, and a
well-developed Criterion B assessing personality traits. Regarding the latter, we have articulated the
limitations of Criterion B trait models; regarding the former we have developed
a rigorous measure for assessing Criterion A functioning:
1.
Siefert,
C., Sexton, J., Meehan, K. B.,
Nelson, S., Haggerty, G., Dauphin, V. B., & Huprich, S. K. (2019).
Development of a short-form for the DSM-5 levels of personality functioning
questionnaire. Journal of Personality
Assessment. DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2019.1594842
2. Meehan,
K. B., Siefert, C., Sexton,
J., & Huprich, S. K. (2019). Expanding the role of levels of personality
functioning in personality disorder taxonomy. Journal of Personality Assessment. DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2018.1551228
3.
Meehan, K. B., Clarkin, J. F., & Lenzenweger, M. F.
(2018). Conceptual models of borderline personality disorder: 1. Overview of
prevailing and emergent models. Psychiatric
Clinics of North America, 41, 535-548.
4.
Meehan, K. B., Clarkin, J. F., & Lenzenweger, M. F.
(2018). Conceptual models of borderline personality disorder: 2. A process
approach and its implications. Psychiatric
Clinics of North America, 41, 549-559.
5. Huprich, S. K., Nelson, S., Meehan, K. B., et al. (2017). Introduction
of the DSM-5 Levels of Personality Functioning Questionnaire (DLOPFQ). Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and
Treatment. DOI: 10.1037/per0000264
