Journal article
Challenges and strategies in helping the DSM become more dimensional and empirically based
Current psychiatry reports, Vol.16(12), pp.515-6
12/2014
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-014-0515-3
PMID: 25308387
Abstract
The DSM-5 creation process and outcome underlines a core tension in psychiatry between empirical evidence that mental pathologies tend to be dimensional and a historical emphasis on delineating categorical disorders to frame psychiatric thinking. The DSM has been slow to reflect dimensional evidence because doing so is often perceived as a disruptive paradigm shift. As a result, other authorities are making this shift, circumventing the DSM in the process. For example, through the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), NIMH now encourages investigators to focus on a dimensional and neuroscientific conceptualization of mental disorder research. Fortunately, the DSM-5 contains a dimensional model of maladaptive personality traits that provides clinical descriptors that align conceptually with the neuroscience-based dimensions delineated in the RDoC and in basic science research. Through frameworks such as the DSM-5 trait model, the DSM can evolve to better incorporate evidence of the dimensionality of mental disorder.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Challenges and strategies in helping the DSM become more dimensional and empirically based
- Creators
- Robert F Krueger - Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N414 Elliott Hall, 75 E. River Rd., Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA, krueg038@umn.eduChristopher J HopwoodAidan G C WrightKristian E Markon
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Current psychiatry reports, Vol.16(12), pp.515-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11920-014-0515-3
- PMID
- 25308387
- ISSN
- 1523-3812
- eISSN
- 1535-1645
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2014
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984083272502771
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