A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Can Transform Mental Health Research

For more than a century, research on psychopathology has focused on categorical diagnoses. Although this work has produced major discoveries, growing evidence points to the superiority of a dimensional approach to the science of mental illness. Here we outline one such dimensional system—the Hierarc...

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Veröffentlicht in:Perspectives on psychological science Jg. 14; H. 3; S. 419 - 436
Hauptverfasser: Conway, Christopher C., Forbes, Miriam K., Forbush, Kelsie T., Fried, Eiko I., Hallquist, Michael N., Kotov, Roman, Mullins-Sweatt, Stephanie N., Shackman, Alexander J., Skodol, Andrew E., South, Susan C., Sunderland, Matthew, Waszczuk, Monika A., Zald, David H., Afzali, Mohammad H., Bornovalova, Marina A., Carragher, Natacha, Docherty, Anna R., Jonas, Katherine G., Krueger, Robert F., Patalay, Praveetha, Pincus, Aaron L., Tackett, Jennifer L., Reininghaus, Ulrich, Waldman, Irwin D., Wright, Aidan G. C., Zimmermann, Johannes, Bach, Bo, Bagby, R. Michael, Chmielewski, Michael, Cicero, David C., Clark, Lee Anna, Dalgleish, Tim, DeYoung, Colin G., Hopwood, Christopher J., Ivanova, Masha Y., Latzman, Robert D., Patrick, Christopher J., Ruggero, Camilo J., Samuel, Douglas B., Watson, David, Eaton, Nicholas R.
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Los Angeles, CA Sage Publications, Inc 01.05.2019
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ISSN:1745-6916, 1745-6924, 1745-6924
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Zusammenfassung:For more than a century, research on psychopathology has focused on categorical diagnoses. Although this work has produced major discoveries, growing evidence points to the superiority of a dimensional approach to the science of mental illness. Here we outline one such dimensional system—the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)—that is based on empirical patterns of co-occurrence among psychological symptoms. We highlight key ways in which this framework can advance mental-health research, and we provide some heuristics for using HiTOP to test theories of psychopathology. We then review emerging evidence that supports the value of a hierarchical, dimensional model of mental illness across diverse research areas in psychological science. These new data suggest that the HiTOP system has the potential to accelerate and improve research on mental-health problems as well as efforts to more effectively assess, prevent, and treat mental illness.
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DOI:10.1177/1745691618810696