Investigating Personalities: From Development to ICD-11

How does personality develop, and how can it be classified clinically? Over six modules, this training course takes you through the main models and classifications in personality psychology and psychopathology.

What you will learn

• Define personality and understand the factors that influence it (brain, genetics, psychoanalysis)
• Compare the developmental theories of Piaget, Wallon and Freud
• Distinguish between the neuroses: anxiety, traumatic, hysterical, phobic and obsessive-compulsive neurosis
• Recognize acute and chronic psychoses: schizophrenia, paranoia, chronic hallucinatory psychosis, manic-depressive disorder
• Classify the personality disorders in the DSM-5 (Clusters A, B and C)
• Apply the dimensional model of the ICD-11: severity of the disorder and trait domains
• Critically assess the debates around diagnosis and classification: rigid labeling, comorbidity, cultural aspects

Structure: 6 video modules with slides, about 2 hours 20 minutes in total. The course ends with a question-and-answer session on a clinical case example (autism spectrum and personality disorder).

Who it is for: Psychologists, psychotherapists and professionals in related fields.

Format: Asynchronous, at your own pace, available at any time.