This contribution is concerned with methodological aspects and some psychometric results at the basis of the validation of a questionnaire for the facilitation of diagnosis according to Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) (PDM Task Force 2006). This assessment procedure system is the QFM-27, clinician report questionnaire on Mental Functioning and on levels of personality organization: it is structured on 27 items that articulate the nine dimensions of M axis of PDM by crossing them with the three levels of development and organization of personality conceptualized by PDM and operationalized in the following way: – Level of resources/means, supporting development, integration and healthy organization; – Level of conflicts, contributing to neurotic organization; – Level of dissociative traumatic processes, involving a disorganizing deficiency, contributing to range of borderline organization. QFM System aims to make operative some PDM diagnosis aspects about the Mental Functioning Profile (M Axis) according to what PDM’s Authors argue on the relationship between M Axis and the formulation of some hypotheses on personality organization. It is possible to find the QFM system at the website www.pdm-qfm.com
Category: No 1 - March - 2012
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