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Sérgio Eduardo Silva de Oliveira is full professor of Clinical Psychology with expertise in Psychological Assessment in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Brasília, Brazil. He is also professor at the Graduate Program of Clinical Psychology and Culture at the University of Brasília. He is the founder and the coordinator of the Psychological Assessment Service, a project designed to professional training in psychological assessment. His research interests are on dimensional models of psychopathology and on the development of measurement models to assess constructs related to psychopathology and to clinical psychology.

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The assessment of personality pathology in Brazil: following the new dimensional approach

The advance of psychometric analysis, with its strong scientific basis, is changing both the knowledge and the way of assessing personality disorders. Dimensional models of psychopathology conceptualization and evaluation are promoting a shift from qualitative to quantitative approach in clinical practices. This change requires of scientific and professional communities an adaption both in the procedure of assessment and in the thoughts related to the conceptualization of psychopathology. The current symposium aims to present the development of two measurement models designed to assess the personality pathology according to the dimensional approach presented in the fifth edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. We will also discuss the effect of response bias on the results of self-report tools and present some techniques to deal with it. Finally, we will discuss the support of machine learning techniques in the investigation of patterns of interaction between personality traits and mental health.