Das Trierer Integrierte Persönlichkeitsinventar (TIPI) : ein diagnostisches Instrument bei persönlichkeitsgestörten Patienten in der klinischen und forensischen Psychiatrie?

Despite the high prevalence of personality disorders, adequate diagnostic instruments for the differentiated and dimensional description of the disordered personality are lacking. The present study investigates how two different groups of patients can be profiled with the „Trierer Integriertes Persönlichkeitsinventar“ in comparison to the general public. The first sample was taken at a psychotherapy ward at the Aachen University hospital, while the second was collected from patients with personality disorders at the hospital for forensic psychiatry in Lippstadt-Eickelborn. According to these results, different DSM-IV-Clusters and categories of crimes were categorised and benchmarked. Finally the field of application for the “Trierer Integriertes Persönlichkeitsinventar“ in psychotherapy clinics and forensic treatments was discussed. The sample of the Aachen University hospital consisted of 22 inpatients with the diagnosis of a personality disorder who underwent voluntarily psychotherapy. The sample from the forensic psychiatry consisted of 52 patients with the diagnosis of a personality disorder, who were as inpatients in the section III for psychotherapy of the hospital for forensic psychiatry in Lippstadt-Eickelborn. Both samples were compared to the reference sample of the „Trierer Integriertes Persönlichkeitsinventar“ using the Mann-Withney-U-Test. It appeared that patients with personality disorders, who were inpatients for psychotherapy, differ considerably from the general population. Using the TIPI, it is possible to draw a sophisticated image of their personality in a dimensional model. On the basis of their particular profile, it is possible to offer selective therapeutical aid to the patients. To give an authentic portrayal of the patients of the forensic psychiatry does not appear to be possible. This seems to be due to the paticular life situation of the forensic psychiatry as well as to the bias in answering yielding social acceptability. The use of the TIPI as a diagnostic instrument for personality disorders or for the evaluation of a psychotherapy does not seem to be reasonable at this time. The use as a diagnostic instrument may be possible in the future after further studies with a sufficient sample size to verifiy the specificity of separate TIPI profiles and to determine cut-off-points.

Grantor dc:publisher

Apprimus-Verl.

Year dc:date

2009

Author dc:creator

• Leygraf, Eva

Contributors dc:contributor

• Saß, Henning

• info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/610
• TIPI <Test>
• Persönlichkeitsstörung
• Gerichtliche Wissenschaften
• Medizin
• forensische Psychatrie
• Trierer Integriertes Persönlichkeitsinventar
• personality disorder
• forensic psychiatry

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• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Language dc:language

ger

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