books by Jr., Paul T. Costa (disorders adulthood edition)

books by Jr., Paul T. Costa

books:

Personality Disorders and the Five-Factor Model of Personality

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Paul T., Jr. Costa

American Psychological Association (APA), 1994

FFM and diagnosis of personality disorders
A good starting point for adding the FFM at domain and facet levels to diagnose personality disorders, a useful tool to better comprehend individual differences in our current DSM categorical system. FFM assessment with the NEO PI-R helps me, as clinician, to build good therapeutic alliances with patients via collaborative assessments, since it seems easier to use common language terms a)for the ...

Personality in Adulthood, Second Edition: A Five-Factor Theory Perspective

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Robert R. McCrae, Jr., Paul T. Costa

The Guilford Press, 2002

Good introduction to the `Big 5' model and personality development
Chapter 1 describes the well-known `Five Factor Model' (FFM) of personality traits and the robust result that in most people, personality changes little after the age of 30. Other theories of adulthood in the work of Freud, Jung, Erikson and others are also reviewed. Chapter 2 is an interesting tutorial on the trait approach to personality, which the authors did so much to develop and ...