Tag: Mental Health Research
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HiTOP and Clinical Psychology Training: A Conversation with Dr. Aidan Wright
by Matt MattoniTemple University As clinical psychologists, we rely on normed structures and classifications of psychopathology for research, therapy, and assessment. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has long dominated the field, despite flaws of arbitrary cutoffs and boundaries, within-disorder heterogeneity, and between-disorder comorbidity. To address classification-related issues such as these, numerous…
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Translating Neuroscientific Methods into the Psychology Clinic
by Brett Schneider, University of Wisconsin-Madison Researchers investigating the neural underpinnings of mental illness have been developing tasks designed to capture transdiagnostic symptomology for decades. However, little to none of this work has improved the diagnosis or treatment of mental health disorders (Rogers, 2017). In this article, I will describe how clinicians and researchers can utilize…