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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Published in:Perspectives on psychological science Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 419 - 436
Main Authors: 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.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, CA Sage Publications, Inc 01.05.2019
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Subjects:
Classification
Comorbidity
Dimensional approach
Dominance
Health problems
Health research
Heuristic
Heuristics
Hierarchies
Humans
Illnesses
Medical research
Mental disorders
Mental Disorders - classification
Mental Disorders - diagnosis
Mental Disorders - prevention & control
Mental Disorders - therapy
Mental health
Methodological problems
Models, Theoretical
Psychological problems
Psychological research
Psychopathology
Research Design
Taxonomy
Terminology as Topic
RDoC
nosology
HiTOP
mental illness
ICD
transdiagnostic
Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology
individual differences
DSM
ISSN:1745-6916, 1745-6924, 1745-6924
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Summary: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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ISSN:1745-6916
1745-6924
1745-6924
DOI:10.1177/1745691618810696