An Evolutionarily Informed Conceptualization of Personality Pathology
ConditionPersonality Disorder
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
AgeNot listed
SponsorTages Onlus
About this trial
The purpose of this study is to explore the reliability of a new evolutionarily-informed model for conceptualizing personality pathology. In a preliminary phase prior to the present study we investigated reliability by comparing how therapist pairs conceptualized and assessed the same patient and how therapists and patients assessed the acceptability of the model.
In this new study we want to confirm that the validity data initially collected are valid across cultures and nations.
Therefore, psychology students (n=110) from 5 countries (China, Italy, Poland, Spain, United States) will participate in a specific training on the model and then apply the model on transcripts of the first two sessions and on assessment reports and two supervisors will evaluate the inter-rater reliability and acceptability in using the model on the same patients.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Undergraduate students in their final year
Recently graduated students.
Disqualifiers
having left the university program during the study
Trial population
Undergraduate students in psychology
Trial design
Design model
Case-control
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Treatments tested in this trial
Evolutionarily informed case conceptualization
Diagnostic testCase conceptualization of personality functioning of a few transcripts of initial sessions and report of psychometric measures of patients diagnosed with personality disorder.
Treatment groups
110 Participants
are divided into 5 treatment groupsGroup A: Spanish group1 intervention
Group B: Polish group1 intervention
Group C: Chinese group1 intervention
Group D: Italian group1 intervention
Group E: American group1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Cross-cultural inter-rater reliabilitt
Inter-rater reliability of adherence to the case conceptualization within any single group will be compared with the Italian group where the diagnostic procedure was initially validated to confirm that there are no differences in reliability between Italian group and the other groups. Inter-rater reliability will be scored as kappa values and intraclass correlation coefficients.
Time frame
From the enrollment to the end of the end of the diagnostic procedure that last 1 hours and will be performed within 1 month from the recruitment.Sponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov