Personality Disorders

The ICHOM Standard Set for Personality Disorders is the result of hard work by a group of leading psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health experts, measurement experts, and lived experience experts. It represents the outcomes that matter most to adults and adolescents with personality disorders. We urge all providers around the world to start measuring these outcomes to better understand how to improve the lives of their service users.

1. Defined by Emotional Distress/Emotional Pain
2. Defined by Affective Lability/Emotional Dysregulation
3. Defined by Self-harm/Self-injury
4. Defined by Overt Aggression
5. Defined by Global/Daily Functioning/Disability
6. Tracked via the Level of Personality Functioning Scale – Brief Form 2.0
7. Tracked via the Recovering Quality of Life – 10-Item Version
8. Tracked via the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale – 16-Item Version
9. Tracked via the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale – Screener/Recent – Self-Report
10. Tracked via the Modified Overt Aggression Scale
11. Tracked via the WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 – 12-Item Version
12. Tracked via the KIDSCREEN-10 Index in Adolescent Specialist Services
13. Tracked via the PROMIS Short Form v2.0 – Social Isolation 4a