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

The personalized approach to psychopathology conceptualizes mental disorder as a
complex system of contextualized dynamic processes that is nontrivially specific to each …

Network analysis is quickly gaining popularity in psychopathology research as a method that
aims to reveal causal relationships among individual symptoms. To date, 4 main types of …

The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is a quantitative nosological
system that addresses shortcomings of traditional mental disorder diagnoses, including …

The nomothetic approach (ie, the study of interindividual variation) dominates analyses of
clinical data, even though its assumption of homogeneity across people and time is often …

Intensive longitudinal data provide psychological researchers with the potential to better
understand individual-level temporal processes. While the collection of such data has …

Personality and psychopathology are composed of dynamic and interactive processes
among diverse psychological systems, manifesting over time and in response to an …

The field of personality psychology aspires to construct an overarching theory of human
nature and individual differences: one that specifies the psychological mechanisms that …

A main goal in translational neuroscience is to identify neural correlates of psychopathology
(“biomarkers”) that can be used to facilitate diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. This goal …

Intensive longitudinal research designs are increasingly used to study personality
processes. The resulting data can be highly informative in ways that other data cannot, but …