Lecture 5

Question 1

3 core ideas in essentialism

Answer 1

1. an underlying cause explains the occurrence of all symptoms of a cluster of symptoms
2. mental disorders are defined by a set of symptoms that are caused by essences
3. clusters of symptoms are independent from each other because they have a different cause

Question 2

blinding effects of essentialism

Answer 2

alternative perspectives
context
meaning
social construction
individual variation
personal understanding

Question 3

How did we get to HiTOP?

Answer 3

1. psychiatric epidemiology
2. questionnaire research in clinical + developmental psychology
3. personality trait research
4. psychometrics

Question 4

4 steps in creating dimensions

Answer 4

1. dimensionalizing a syndrome
2. factor analyzing multiple syndromes
3. factor analyzing large set of symptoms
4. joint factor analysis of personality and problems

Question 5

essentialism

Answer 5

psychiatry is rooted within the medical discipline, and accordingly understands psychopathology as a structural, (epi)genetic, cellular, molecular, or other underlying disturbance that is located inside the body/brain

Question 6

goals of personal recovery

Answer 6

• intersubjective understanding
• collaboration
• first person perspective
• promote personal recover
• hope, meaning, identity

Question 7

goals of DSM

Answer 7

• continuity with research tradition
• communication with society
• status as a medical procession
• reimbursement

Question 8

goals of HiTOP

Answer 8

• empirically grounded taxonomy
• more adequate representation of dimensionality and heterogeneity
• continuity with epidemiological research

Question 9

goals of case conceptualization

Answer 9

• explanatory hypotheses
• applying psychological theory
• using clinical expertise
• developing a treatment rationale
• learn clinical reasoning