Seven reasons why binary diagnostic categories should be replaced with empirically sounder and less stigmatizing dimensions

Background An ongoing positive revolution advocates a new approach to the individual differences in human emotions, cognitions, and behavior that cause distress and impair functioning. This revolution endorses the long‐proposed, but still unrealized rejection of the medical model, which attributes p...

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Published inJCPP advances Vol. 2; no. 4; pp. e12108 - n/a
Main Authors Lahey, Benjamin B., Tiemeier, Henning, Krueger, Robert F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.12.2022
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Wiley
Subjects
dimensional approach
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Psychopathology
Research Review
Stigma
taxonomy
stigma
dimensional approach
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Summary:Background An ongoing positive revolution advocates a new approach to the individual differences in human emotions, cognitions, and behavior that cause distress and impair functioning. This revolution endorses the long‐proposed, but still unrealized rejection of the medical model, which attributes psychological problems to a sick brain or mind. In addition, it advocates replacing the binary diagnoses used in ICD and DSM, which assume a clear discontinuity between “normal” and “abnormal” functioning, with continuous dimensions of psychological problems. Method Selective literature review. Results and Discussion Seven strong reasons are provided for adopting a dimensional approach. Seven logical and empirical reasons are provided for replacing binary diagnostic categories with more valid and less stigmatizing dimensions of psychological problems.
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ISSN:2692-9384
2692-9384
DOI:10.1002/jcv2.12108