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Journal of Personality Assessment Volume 93, 2011 - Issue 2: Can the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) Put the Complex Person Back at the Center-Stage of Personality Assessment?
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The Mental Functioning Axis of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual: An Adolescent Case Study

John H. Porcerelli Department of Family Medicine & Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine
,
Rosemary Cogan Department of Psychology, Texas Tech University
&
Michael Bambery Department of Psychology, University of Detroit Mercy
Pages 177-184 | Received 17 Feb 2010, Published online: 23 Feb 2011
 
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Abstract

We describe the assessment of a troubled adolescent boy to demonstrate the use of the Shedler–Westen Assessment Profile for Adolescents (CitationWesten, Dutra, & Shedler, 2005) and the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale–Global (CitationWesten, 1995) to formulate the Mental Functioning for Children and Adolescents Axis (MCA) of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (CitationPDM Task Force, 2006). The assessment made possible a meaningful psychodynamic therapy.

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