Clinical Implications of Moving Beyond Categorical Diagnosis - Dr. Jared Ruchensky, PhD

Dr. Ruchensky obtained his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Texas A&M University and completed his predoctoral internship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ruchensky's body of work addresses models and measures of psychopathic personality disorder (psychopathy), the utility of broadband personality assessment instruments, and dimensional models of personality pathology. He is especially interested in studying these topics in criminal-legal and underserved (e.g., LGBTQ+) populations. His work has been recognized with the John E. Exner Award from the Society for Personality Assessment, and he currently serves as an Associate Editor at Assessment. He is also an active clinician who routinely completes forensic evaluations and trains doctoral students in therapy and assessment. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1. Explain the rationale for transitioning from categorical to dimensional models 2. Define key components of the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders 3. Discuss practical approaches to integrating personality assessment into clinical work Please note: CEUs, CEs, and CMEs, as well as Certificates of Completion are not available from viewing recordings. In order to be eligible for credit, trainings and presentations must be attended live. Views expressed during this training or presentation do not reflect those of the University of New Mexico. Copyright Notice All Rights Reserved. All material appearing on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube (“content”) is protected by copyright under U.S. Copyright laws and is the property the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences or the party credited as the provider of the content. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any such content, nor may you distribute any part of this content over any network, including a local area network, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database. You may not alter or remove any copyright or other notice from copies of the content on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube. Copying or storing any content except as provided above is expressly prohibited without prior written permission of the University or the copyright holder identified in the individual content’s copyright notice. For permission to use the content on the University’s website, please contact [email protected]. Disclaimer The content contained in University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube is provided only for educational and informational purposes or as required by U.S. or N.M. law. The University attempts to ensure that content is accurate and obtained from reliable sources, but does not represent it to be error-free. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences may add, amend or repeal any policy, procedure or regulation, and failure to timely post such changes to its website shall not be construed as a waiver of enforcement. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences does not warrant that any functions on its website will be uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, or that the website will be free from viruses or other harmful components. Any links to third party information on the University’s YouTube are provided as a courtesy and do not constitute an endorsement of those materials or the third party providing them.