Describing disorder
The importance and advancement of compositional explanations in psychopathology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20401228 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hannah Hawkins-Elder (0000-0002-3511-3908, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author), Tony Ward (0000-0002-6292-2364, Victoria University of Wellington) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 842-866 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory & Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-3543 • E-ISSN: 1461-7447 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09593543211021157 |
| OpenAlex | W3169284105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 89 |
Understanding the makeup of mental disorders has great value for both research and practice in psychopathology. The richer and more detailed our compositional explanations of mental disorder—that is, comprehensive accounts of client signs and symptoms—the more information we have to inform etiological explanations, classification schemes, clinical assessment, and treatment. However, at present, no explicit compositional explanations of psychopathology have been developed and the existing descriptive accounts that could conceivably fill this role—DSM/ICD syndromes, transdiagnostic and dimensional approaches, symptom network models, historical accounts, case narratives, and the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)—fall short in critical ways. In this article, we discuss what compositional explanations are, their role in scientific inquiry, and their importance for psychopathology research and practice. We then explain why current descriptive accounts of mental disorder fall short of providing such an explanation and demonstrate how effective compositional explanations could be constructed
Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Narrative · Psychopathology · Psychotherapist · Research Domain Criteria · Clinical Psychology · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Mental Health Research Topics · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |