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.