Executive summary “Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive
in the way it becomes known to the self—to the mediating intellect—as to verge close to …

The usefulness of current psychiatric classification, which is based on ICD/DSM categorical
diagnoses, remains questionable. A promising alternative has been put forward as the …

Depression is widely acknowledged to be a heterogeneous entity, and the need to further
characterize the individual patient who has received this diagnosis in order to personalize …

An important advance in understanding and defining mental disorders has been the
development of empirical approaches to mapping dimensions of dysfunction and their …

Psychiatrists often consider the positive characteristics displayed by a patient in their clinical
judgment, yet current assessment and treatment strategies are shifted on the side of …

This paper proposes a model for developmental psychopathology that is informed by recent
research suggestive of a single model of mental health disorder (the p factor) and seeks to …

Exposure to natural environments is associated with a lower risk of common mental health
disorders (CMDs), such as depression and anxiety, but we know little about nature-related …

Shared decision-making (SDM) is a process in which the doctor provides clear and
complete medical information to patients about their treatment, and patients provide …

Psychiatric practice faces many challenges in the first quarter of 21 st century. Society has
transformed as have training requirements and patient expectations, underlining an urgent …

Abstract The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) was originally conceived to assess
psychopathology in several psychiatric disorders, making it an appropriate candidate to be …