PSYREFLECT

Issue #71

September 7, 2026

#1Research

Two items from the history against a battery of eight instruments

“A criminal record carried an odds ratio of 3.48 and a traumatic event 3.08, while three scored questionnaires carried 1.52, 1.06 and 1.04 for each point on their scales.”

antisocial personality disordersubstance useDSM-5risk prediction
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#2Research

The trial excluded Cluster B, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder became half the sample

“Cluster B was an exclusion criterion, so borderline personality disorder appears in 3 of the 250 participants and narcissistic personality disorder in none, while obsessive-compulsive personality disorder reaches 117 people, and whatever this trial could ever report about personality disorders was fixed at that screening line.”

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#3Tool

Ten sessions of support against one session of crisis planning

“The comparator was not nothing. It was one crisis planning session at £86 a head, set against £878 for ten sessions of support.”

personality disorderbrief interventionStructured Psychological Supportcrisis planning
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#4Industry

Eleven codes and one standard

“Thirteen of the sixteen graded statements are addressed to every patient with a personality disorder without naming which one, and seven of the sixteen sit at the certainty level the rubricator reserves for expert opinion.”

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#5Industry

Avoidant personality disorder runs level with borderline across Norway

“Across the Norwegian population the lifetime risk of an avoidant personality disorder diagnosis is 1.84% against 1.77% for borderline, and among men it is 1.42% against 0.73%.”

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#6Resource

A guideline the psychiatric nurse and the psychiatrist open at the same page

“Dissocial personality disorder heads a table of 38 diagnoses at 100%, and from there the severity of personality functioning decides which of the 56 recommendations apply.”

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