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ZAN-BPD

Borderline Personality Disorder

Zanarini Rating Scale for BPD

#Self-report#Severity#Borderline

Overview

Assesses the severity of DSM-IV BPD symptoms.

Scale Content & Assessment Items

Rate the following symptoms over the past week.

1

Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger

Options: None (0) · Mild (1) · Moderate (2) · Severe (3) · Extreme (4)
2

Affective instability due to marked reactivity of mood

Options: None (0) · Mild (1) · Moderate (2) · Severe (3) · Extreme (4)
3

Chronic feelings of emptiness

Options: None (0) · Mild (1) · Moderate (2) · Severe (3) · Extreme (4)
4

Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self

Options: None (0) · Mild (1) · Moderate (2) · Severe (3) · Extreme (4)
5

Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms

Options: None (0) · Mild (1) · Moderate (2) · Severe (3) · Extreme (4)
6

Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment

Options: None (0) · Mild (1) · Moderate (2) · Severe (3) · Extreme (4)
7

Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging

Options: None (0) · Mild (1) · Moderate (2) · Severe (3) · Extreme (4)
8

Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior

Options: None (0) · Mild (1) · Moderate (2) · Severe (3) · Extreme (4)
9

Pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships

Options: None (0) · Mild (1) · Moderate (2) · Severe (3) · Extreme (4)

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