A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Can Transform Mental Health Research
A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Can Transform Mental Health Research
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DOI：
10.1177/1745691618810696
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发表时间：
2019-05-01
影响因子：
12.6
通讯作者：
Eaton, Nicholas R.
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作者：
Conway, Christopher C.;Forbes, Miriam K.;Eaton, Nicholas R.
一个多世纪以来，精神病理学的研究一直集中在分类诊断上。尽管这项工作已经产生了重大发现，但越来越多的证据表明，维度方法在精神疾病科学方面的优势。在这里，我们概述了一个这样的维度系统-精神病理学层次分类法(HiTOP)-这是基于经验模式的共同出现的心理症状。我们强调了该框架可以促进心理健康研究的关键方式，并为使用HiTOP测试精神病理学理论提供了一些启发。然后，我们回顾了新出现的证据，这些证据支持心理科学不同研究领域中精神疾病的分层、维度模型的价值。这些新数据表明，HiTOP系统有可能加速和改善对精神健康问题的研究，以及更有效地评估、预防和治疗精神疾病的努力。
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.