Editorial: Affective self-regulation and mental disorders: A transdiagnostic disposition in psychopathology
Year: 2022
Type: editorial
Abstract: Affective self-regulation and mental disorders: A transdiagnostic disposition in psychopathologyWhile a classification system of psychiatric disorders remains a necessary aspect of clinical psychiatric practice, comorbidity and shared illness trajectories are an obstacle to identifying etiologies of disorders, e.g., (1-3).This has led practitioners and researchers to propose a transdiagnostic view of psychiatric illness and therapy (3-7).As noted by Mansell et al. (5) and Nolen-Hoeksema and Watkins (7), the notion that mental disorders share cognitive, behavioral and emotional features and patterns of comorbidity is not new.In fact, in the early days of psychology and psychiatry, the dominant view was that shared processes, such as neuroses and defense mechanisms or conditioned responses, were common origins of psychopathologies.It was only in the latter half of the twentieth century that classification systems were developed that allowed practitioners to assign a patient with a particular pattern of signs and symptoms a specific diagnosis and treatment regimen.However, it remained evident that disorders were heterogeneous, that different disorders shared dysfunctional processes, and that these processes had wide-ranging continua that could be observed in non-clinical samples as well (8).Moreover, in the absence of solid etiology, the diagnostic categories were largely descriptive in nature ( 9).This lack of clarity has led to an effort in recent years to formulate a transdiagnostic approach to improve assessment and treatment practices (10-14).A transdiagnostic approach tries to identify dysfunctional processes and characterize their expression in relation to other phenotypic phenomena, i.e., symptoms and signs, that play a role in the onset and/or maintenance of disorders.Thus, the focus has shifted from understanding the etiology and trajectory of disorder categories (e.g., depression, eating disorders) to focusing on environmental, social, cognitive, behavioral, physiological, emotional, and molecular processes and their co-occurrence.New dimensional systems, such as the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) e.g., (11) and Hierarchical Taxonomy of
Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry
Author: Ilana S. Hairston
Institutions: Tel Hai Academic College, University of Haifa
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,950
OpenAlex ID: W4311069561