Personalized models of psychopathology as contextualized dynamic processes: An example from individuals with borderline personality disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Psychopathology research has relied on discrete diagnoses, which neglects the unique manifestations of each individual's pathology. Borderline personality disorder combines interpersonal, affective, and behavioral regulation impairments making it particularly ill-suited to a "one size fits all" diagnosis. Clinical assessment and case formulation involve understanding and developing a personalized model for each patient's contextualized dynamic processes, and research would benefit from a similar focus on the individual.

Method

We use group iterative multiple model estimation, which estimates a model for each individual and identifies general or shared features across individuals, in both a mixed-diagnosis sample (N = 78) and a subsample with a single

SUBMITTER: Woods WC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7034576 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature