TY - JOUR
T1 - A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Can Transform Mental Health Research
AU - Conway, Christopher C.
AU - Forbes, Miriam K.
AU - Forbush, Kelsie T.
AU - Fried, Eiko I.
AU - Hallquist, Michael N.
AU - Kotov, Roman
AU - Mullins-Sweatt, Stephanie N.
AU - Shackman, Alexander J.
AU - Skodol, Andrew E.
AU - South, Susan C.
AU - Sunderland, Matthew
AU - Waszczuk, Monika A.
AU - Zald, David H.
AU - Afzali, Mohammad H.
AU - Bornovalova, Marina A.
AU - Carragher, Natacha
AU - Docherty, Anna R.
AU - Jonas, Katherine G.
AU - Krueger, Robert F.
AU - Patalay, Praveetha
AU - Pincus, Aaron L.
AU - Tackett, Jennifer L.
AU - Reininghaus, Ulrich
AU - Waldman, Irwin D.
AU - Wright, Aidan G.C.
AU - Zimmermann, Johannes
AU - Bach, Bo
AU - Bagby, R. Michael
AU - Chmielewski, Michael
AU - Cicero, David C.
AU - Clark, Lee Anna
AU - Dalgleish, Tim
AU - DeYoung, Colin G.
AU - Hopwood, Christopher J.
AU - Ivanova, Masha Y.
AU - Latzman, Robert D.
AU - Patrick, Christopher J.
AU - Ruggero, Camilo J.
AU - Samuel, Douglas B.
AU - Watson, David
AU - Eaton, Nicholas R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1177/1745691618810696
DO - 10.1177/1745691618810696
M3 - Article
C2 - 30844330
AN - SCOPUS:85062726633
SN - 1745-6916
VL - 14
SP - 419
EP - 436
JO - Perspectives on Psychological Science
JF - Perspectives on Psychological Science
IS - 3
ER -