Lesson 1Assessing common co-occurring issues with personality disorders: mood, anxiety, PTSD, substance use, ADHD, and when to refer for brain function testingLooks at common co-occurring conditions with personality disorders, like mood swings, worry, PTSD, drug use, and ADHD. Covers checking for them, telling them apart, ordering treatment, and when to send for brain testing or specialist help in Uganda.
Checking for mood and worry disordersSpotting PTSD and deep traumaDrug use and addictive habitsNoticing ADHD from childhood to nowWhen to send for brain function testingOrdering treatment with co-occurring issuesLesson 2Assessing trauma and attachment patterns: using ACEs, childhood trauma questionnaires, and clinical interview methodsGives ways to check trauma and attachment using ACEs, set questionnaires, and talking in clinic. Stresses going slow, ensuring safety, checking for disconnection, and linking past trauma to current personality ways in Ugandan families.
Using ACEs and like checking toolsChildhood trauma questionnaires in detailTalking about attachment experiencesChecking disconnection and breaking apartGoing slow, safety, and steadyingLinking trauma to current waysLesson 3Cultural formulation and different baseline personality expression: cultural identity, explanation models, and reducing bias in assessmentLooks at how culture shapes personality showing and checking, including cultural self, explanation ways, norms, and doctor bias. Gives plans for cultural formulation, putting symptoms in context, and not calling normal differences sickness in Uganda.
Getting cultural identity and linksLooking at cultural explanation modelsNorms for feelings, actions, and selfTelling culture from sicknessSpotting and handling doctor biasUsing cultural formulation talksLesson 4Gathering history from others: consent, sources, how to get reliable info from family, primary care, past healersLooks at right and practical steps to get history from others, including consent ways, picking good sources, setting questions, and fixing differences to make personality checking more reliable and less biased in Ugandan communities.
Getting and writing informed consentPicking good other sourcesSetting other talks for clearnessHandling conflicting other infoDealing with privacy and secret limitsLesson 5Full mental health history: growth, trauma, attachment, school/work, legal, substance use, treatment pastDetails parts of a full mental health history fit for personality problems, including growth steps, trauma, attachment, school and job, legal matters, substance use, and past treatments, noting time order and setting in Uganda.
Growth steps and natureFamily setting and attachment pastSchool and job pathLegal, money, and home historySubstance use ways and resultsPast treatments and how they workedLesson 6Functional assessment: job, social, relationship working, daily tasks, risk startersCenters on checking real-life working in job, school, relations, self-care, and risk. Stresses linking working problems to personality traits, finding starters, and using findings to guide care level and help in Ugandan life.
Checking job and school rolesLooking at social and close relationsDaily tasks and self-careFinding risk starters and waysLinking traits to working problemsUsing working to guide treatmentLesson 7Writing and putting together findings into a diagnosis formulation and problem listCovers how to sort talk data into a clear diagnosis formulation, link signs to personality traits, put first a problem list, and share findings clearly to patients and teams to guide treatment planning and risk handling in Uganda.
Sorting data by areas and timesLinking traits, signs, and stressesWriting a multi-way style formulationPutting first and setting the problem listSharing formulations to patientsUpdating formulations over timeLesson 8Structured diagnosis tools: SCID-5-PD, SCID-5-CV, IPDE — giving, scoring, understandingIntroduces main structured diagnosis tools for personality disorders, like SCID-5-PD, SCID-5-CV, and IPDE. Covers when to use, giving, scoring, understanding, and mixing results with clinic thinking in Ugandan practice.
Overview of main PD talk toolsWhen to use and not usePreparing patients and setting hopesStandard giving waysScoring, levels, and trustMixing results with clinic thinkingLesson 9Mental state check focused on personality features: feeling changes, identity, thinking, empathy, reality checkDescribes how to do a mental state check stressing personality features, including feeling control, identity, thinking, empathy, and reality check. Highlights words for writing and meanings for diagnosis in Uganda.
Watching feeling range and steadyChecking identity and self-viewLooking at thought content and wayChecking empathy and seeing othersReality check and small mad signsWriting personality-related findings
