Lesson 1Assessing comorbidities common with personality disorders: mood, anxiety, PTSD, substance use, ADHD, and when to refer for neurocognitive testingThis lesson looks at other problems that often come with personality disorders, like mood swings, worry, war trauma, alcohol or drug use, and attention issues. It covers how to check for them, tell them apart, plan treatment order, and know when to send for brain function tests or specialist help in our communities.
Checking for mood and worry problemsFinding war trauma and deep hurtsAlcohol, drugs, and bad habitsSpotting attention issues from child to adultWhen to send for brain testsPlanning treatment with other issuesLesson 2Assessing trauma and attachment patterns: using ACEs, childhood trauma questionnaires, and clinical interview techniquesThis lesson teaches ways to check for past hurts and how people connect with others using simple tools like ACEs, question forms for child trauma, and talking methods. It stresses going slow, keeping safe, checking for spacing out, and linking old pains to today's personality ways in South Sudan life.
Using ACEs and like check toolsDeep look at child hurt question formsTalking about connection experiencesChecking spacing out and breaking apartGoing slow, safety, and steadyingLinking old hurts to now patternsLesson 3Cultural formulation and differential baseline personality expression: cultural identity, explanatory models, and bias reduction in assessmentThis part studies how our South Sudanese ways shape how personality shows and how we check it, including who we are culturally, our ways of explaining things, normal behaviors, and doctor biases. It gives plans for cultural checks, putting symptoms in context, and not calling normal differences sickness.
Bringing out cultural who we are and groupsLooking at cultural explain waysNormals for feelings, actions, and selfTelling culture from sicknessSeeing and handling doctor biasUsing cultural check talksLesson 4Collateral history gathering: consent, sources, how to elicit reliable information from family, primary care, past therapistsThis lesson goes into right and practical steps for getting extra history, like getting permission, choosing good sources, asking right questions, and fixing wrong info to make checks more true and less biased for personality in our villages and towns.
Getting and writing down true permissionChoosing good extra info peopleSetting up extra talks for clearnessHandling wrong extra infoDealing with secret keeping and privacy endsLesson 5Comprehensive psychiatric history: developmental, trauma, attachment, education/employment, legal, substance use, treatment historyThis part lists parts of a full mind health history fit for personality problems, like growing up steps, hurts, connections, school and work, law matters, alcohol drugs, and past treatments, watching time order and background in South Sudan contexts.
Growing steps and natureFamily place and connection pastSchool and work pathLaw, money, and home historyAlcohol drug ways and bad resultsPast treatments and how they workedLesson 6Functional assessment: occupational, social, interpersonal functioning, activities of daily living, risk triggersThis focuses on checking real life working in jobs, school, friends, self care, and dangers. It stresses linking weak workings to personality ways, finding starts, and using finds to guide care level and helps in daily South Sudanese living.
Checking job and school rolesLooking at friend and close tiesDaily doings and self careFinding danger starts and waysLinking ways to weak workingUsing working to guide treatmentLesson 7Documenting and synthesizing findings into a diagnostic formulation and problem listThis covers how to put talk data into a clear diagnose plan, link signs to personality ways, put first a problem list, and share finds clear to patients and teams to guide treatment plans and danger handling in our settings.
Putting data by areas and timesLinking ways, signs, and stressesWriting a multi-part style planPutting first and setting problem listSharing plans to patientsUpdating plans over timeLesson 8Structured diagnostic instruments: SCID-5-PD, SCID-5-CV, IPDE — administration, scoring, interpretationThis brings in main structured diagnose tools for personality disorders, like SCID-5-PD, SCID-5-CV, and IPDE. It covers when to use, how to do, score, understand, and mix results with doctor thinking in South Sudan clinics.
Look at main PD talk toolsWhen to use and not useReady patients and set hopesStandard do waysScoring, levels, and true nessMixing results with doctor thinkingLesson 9Mental status examination focused on personality features: affective lability, identity, cognition, empathy, reality testingThis tells how to do a mind state check with focus on personality parts, like feeling changes, who I am, thinking, feeling for others, and real check. It points out words for writing and what it means for diagnose.
Watching feeling range and steadyChecking who I am and self ideaLooking at thought fill and wayChecking feeling for others and see viewsReal check and small mad signsWriting personality find parts
