Mental disorder classification provides a definitional framework that underlies applied
clinical and research efforts to understand, assess, predict, prevent and ameliorate the …

For more than a century, research on psychopathology has focused on categorical
diagnoses. Although this work has produced major discoveries, growing evidence points to …

Objective: Diagnosis is a cornerstone of clinical practice for mental health care providers, yet
traditional diagnostic systems have well-known shortcomings, including inadequate …

Structural models of psychopathology provide dimensional alternatives to traditional
categorical classification systems. Competing models, such as the bifactor and correlated …

Quantitative models of mental illness, such as the Hierarchical Taxonomy of
Psychopathology (HiTOP), aim to optimize clinical assessment, which conventionally follows …

Purpose No lifetime utilization of mental health treatment (NUMT) is an indicator of the
treatment gap among people in need of treatment. Until now, the overall prevalence and …

Objective To assess the long-term impact of the age of onset (AOO) of the first major
depressive episode (MDE) according to 3 age groups and considering gender. Methods …

Maladaptive personality has been positioned as one overarching framework with the
potential to streamline conceptualization of both personality-and nonpersonality-related …

Relatively little is known about individual characteristics that factor into the decision to seek
help for mood and anxiety symptoms. The current study was undertaken in order to examine …

The prevalence of emotional disorders has increased in recent times. Emotional Reasoning
(ER), which is a transdiagnostic process, occurs when feelings, rather than objective …