We propose a novel developmentally informed framework to push research beyond a focus
on comorbidity between discrete diagnostic categories and to move toward research based …

Hierarchical dimensional systems of psychopathology promise more informative
descriptions for understanding risk and predicting outcome than traditional diagnostic …

It is well known that comorbidity is the rule, not the exception, for categorically defined
psychiatric disorders, and this is also the case for internalizing disorders of depression and …

We propose a taxonomy of psychopathology based on patterns of shared causal influences
identified in a review of multivariate behavior genetic studies that distinguish genetic and …

There is an ongoing revolution in psychology and psychiatry that will likely change how we
conceptualize, study and treat psychological problems. Many theorists now support viewing …

Although there exists some definitional divergence about what con-stitutes a developmental
psychopathology perspective to uncovering pathways to adaptive and maladaptive …

Recent research has described the structure of psychopathology as including one general
and multiple specific factors, and this structure has been found in samples across …

Developmental psychopathology (DP) is a conceptual approach to the study of the origins
and course of individual patterns in the development of psychopathology across the …

This special section exemplifies and offers a number of important methodologic and
conceptual advances that should provide investigators new tools for understanding …

Purpose Classification is the cornerstone of clinical diagnostic practice and research.
However, the extant psychiatric classification systems are not well supported by research …