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

Quantitative, empirical approaches to establishing the structure of psychopathology hold
promise to improve on traditional psychiatric classification systems. The Hierarchical …

Traditional diagnostic systems went beyond empirical evidence on the structure of mental
health. Consequently, these diagnoses do not depict psychopathology accurately, and their …

Background The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is a classification
system that seeks to organize psychopathology using quantitative evidence–yet the current …

The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) has emerged out of the
quantitative approach to psychiatric nosology. This approach identifies psychopathology …

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

Many have argued that a hierarchical dimensional approach to psychiatric classification
would better align the nosology with data on the natural organization of psychopathology1 …

Abstract The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is an empirically based,
hierarchical model of the structure of psychopathology that was created in response to the …

Abstract The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is a novel diagnostic
system grounded in empirical research into the architecture of mental illness. Its basic units …

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