Transdiagnostic approaches to mental health problems: Current status and future directions.

ABSTRACT: Despite a longstanding and widespread influence of the diagnostic approach to mental ill health, there is an emerging and growing consensus that such psychiatric nosologies may no longer be fit for purpose in research and clinical practice. In their place, there is gathering support for a "transdiagnostic" approach that cuts across traditional diagnostic boundaries or, more radically, sets them aside altogether, to provide novel insights into how we might understand mental health difficulties. Removing the distinctions between proposed psychiatric taxa at the level of classification opens up new ways of classifying mental health problems, suggests alternative conceptualizations of the processes implicated in mental health, and provides a platform for novel ways of thinking about onset, mai

SUBMITTER: Dalgleish T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7027356 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature