Personality Disorder Improvement Programme - Diagnosis and Formulation (including ICD-11) Webinar

At this webinar we heard from Professor Michaela Swales, Programme Director North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme and Dr John Mitchell CBE, Mental Health advisor, Scottish Government.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) Eleventh Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) has now come into effect, with the latest update going live on Feb, 2022.
In a bold move, they have abandoned the age old model of diagnosis of certain mental health disorders especially personality disorders as a concrete set of symptoms and moved on to a complete dimensional approach.
You will no longer be just labelled BPD or narcissistic personality for life.
As many people also improve but they still has to carry the same label and stigma of the full blown disorder.
Its like saying you have diabetes but without testing hba1c, the treatment cannot be specific and complications can greatly differ.
They are not rather understood on a spectrum with special takes.
Rather than saying a person has BPD, traits will be identified.
Classifications on terms of severity are done like mild, moderate and severe, giving you a sense of progress.
As many of the sympoms of PD hugely overlap this will help better establish the person's own personality and work on it rather than as concrete; not so malliable labels.
I am personally eleated to see as this may help so many people who may traditionally not even meet a criteria for a disorder but can now work of specific functionalities to improve ther lives.