Abstract

Categories of transdiagnostic processes: Qualitative data from psychotherapy practitioners

Highlights

  • The processes involved in the development, persistence and maintenance of psychopathology have been subject to frequent debate

  • Subjects were invited to participate via an email invitation that included a direct link to a questionnaire, which was destined to members of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), which were both international societies

  • We further present the results of the thematic analysis

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Summary

Introduction

The processes involved in the development, persistence and maintenance of psychopathology have been subject to frequent debate. A particular focus of discussion is the one comparing categorical and dimensional approaches to diverse psychopathological patterns Hopwood et al, 2018; Kraemer, Noda, & O’Hara, 2004; Widiger, 1992). Categorical systems rely on signals (observed by the clinician) and symptoms (reported by the patient), which are viewed as important indicators of the presence of a disorder (such as in the DSM-V or the ICD-10). Dimensional systems, on the other hand, rate patients on different dimensions that aim to consider important individual variability and avoid a dichotomous decision between a present and an absent diagnosis. An individual is assessed in a set of domains, which arguably allows to draw a deeper profile of impairment or severity across them (Helzer, Kraemer, & Krueger, 2006; Rodriguez-Seijas, Eaton, & Krueger, 2015)

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