Transdiagnostic Approaches - Article Content Flashcards
Why are transdiagnostic models important?
They focus on fundamental processes underlying multiple disorders, to help explain comorbidity of disorders, which may lead to more effective assessment and treatment.
define multifinality
the ability to simultaneously explain the mechanisms by which a transdiagnostic risk factor leads to multiple disorders. Referring to the process by which certain environments, experiences or characteristics increase risk for a number of different types of psychopathology (example being stress)
What do transdiagnostic models need to explain in order for them to have practical value?
1) the mechanisms by which transdiagnostic factors cause all the different disorders associated
2) why a transdiagnostic factors leads to different disorders in different people
3) mechanisms linking distal and proximal risk factors to each other and to psychopathology
What are the 2 categories for distal and proximal risk factors?
1) environmental and congenital biological, relatively distal
2) within-person, relatively proximal
define distal and proximal risk factors
distal: leads to disorder only via mediating proximal risk factors
proximal: more directly cause disorder
What are the mechanisms linking distal and proximal factors?
- distal may shape the response to the environment
- congenital biological abnormalities may shape the response to the environment, creating proximal risk
- distal shape individuals belief, schemas, and self image to create proximally
- conditioning and observational learning are likely to play roles in the linkage
how do moderators create symptoms?
1) raising concerns or themes that proximal factors act upon
2) shaping responses through conditioning
3) determining the reinforcement value or certain stimuli
what are the 2 distinctions between distal and moderators?
1) their temporality relative to proximal risk factors and disorders
2) how they exert their causal effect
