Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment Editor: Carl W. Lejuez ISSN: 1949-2715 Published Quarterly, beginning in Spring 2010

Journal Description

Launching in Spring of 2010, Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment (PDTRT) will publish a wide range of cutting edge research on personality disorders and related psychopathology from a categorical and/or dimensional perspective including laboratory and treatment outcome studies, as well as integrative conceptual manuscripts and practice reviews that bridge science and practice.

PDTRT publishes research and theory that advances our understanding of personality disorders. The journal is targeted at research psychologists, as well as researchers from other disciplines including but not limited to psychiatry, social work, and public health to the extent that the work informs psychological theory, research, and/or treatment.

PDTRT seeks a wide range of new empirical and conceptual research focused on DSM-defined personality disorders and related psychopathology (e.g., psychopathy) using categorical and/or dimensional measurement. The journal also welcomes studies of personality pathology from a broad host of perspectives where clinical implications are evident.

These perspectives include but are not limited to relevant personality constructs such as impulsivity, dimensional models of general personality, and dimensional models specific to personality pathology.

In addition to more basic research, PDTRT is committed to applied inquiry encouraging treatment outcome research including both efficacy and effectiveness studies. Further, PDTRT is particularly interested in translational research.

Examples include

1. laboratory studies for which the rationale is couched within existing clinical problems and where the findings are discussed in terms of the clinical problem, as well as
2. treatment studies testing mechanisms of change within a well-defined theoretical framework.

Studies with analogue samples are acceptable if their use elucidates basic processes underlying the development and maintenance of personality pathology, and the journal strongly encourages studies utilizing unique and underserved samples. Finally, PDTRT places a strong emphasis on real-world clinical issues with content of particular relevance for practicing clinicians in the form of practice reviews.