Family assessment: toward DSM-III-R relevancy

The assessment of family pathology never has been integrated into current individual diagnostic theory and DSM-III-R; it usually has followed idiosyncratic family treatment theories or has not been emphasized extensively. The purpose of the present study is to extend individual DSM-III-R personality disorder assessment to family assessment. The Personality Adjective Check List was given to 65 subjects along with a traditional family assessment inventory. The Personality Adjective Check List exhibited high reliabilities across all personality disorders and appropriate and substantial validity estimates against the traditional family assessment inventory.