The Mental Health Ecosystem: Extending Symptom Networks With Risk and Protective Factors.

ABSTRACT: Inspired by modeling approaches from the ecosystems literature, in this paper, we expand the network approach to psychopathology with risk and protective factors to arrive at an integrated analysis of resilience. We take a complexity approach to investigate the multifactorial nature of resilience and present a system in which a network of interacting psychiatric symptoms is targeted by risk and protective factors. These risk and protective factors influence symptom development patterns and thereby increase or decrease the probability that the symptom network is pulled toward a healthy or disorder state. In this way, risk and protective factors influence the resilience of the network. We take a step forward in formalizing the proposed system by implementing it in a statistical model and tra

SUBMITTER: Lunansky G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8012560 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature