HiTOP Dimensional Approach to Mental Disorders Superior to DSM Categories
HiTOP Dimensional Approach to Mental Disorders Superior to DSM Categories The new HiTOP model takes a dimensional approach to mental disorders and may improve research, training, and treatments. 1478 Efforts to replace traditional approaches to the classification of mental disorders and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM) have gained traction over the past several years. Researchers developing the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) approach have moved away from seeing mental disorders as discrete categories and instead cast them within a dimensional...
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