Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure-200.

SWAP-200 (SWAP-II)

What it measures

Clinician-rated personality pathology - DSM Axis II PD scales plus empirically derived Q-factor personality styles and dimensions of personality health/functioning

Length and format

200 statements sorted into a fixed 8-point Q-sort distribution. clinician rating (forced Q-sort distribution) (clinician-rated/interview)

Language versions

10+ langs approx incl. IT (extensively used), ES, DE, PT, NL, ZH; the Italian research programme (Lingiardi, Gazzillo) is the largest outside the US

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Westen D, Shedler J. Revising and assessing Axis II, Part I: developing a clinically and empirically valid assessment method. Am J Psychiatry. 1999;156(2):258-272.