A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Current Directions in Psychiatric Classification: From the DSM to RDoC
Authors: Björn N. Persson
Editors: Garcia, Danilo, Archer, Trevor, Kostrzewa, Richard (Eds.)
Publisher: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, GEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND
Publication year: 2019
Book title : Personality and Brain Disorders: Associations and Interventions
Journal name in source: PERSONALITY AND BRAIN DISORDERS: ASSOCIATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS
Journal acronym: CONTEMP CLIN NEUROSC
Series title: Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience
First page : 253
Last page: 268
Number of pages: 16
ISBN: 978-3-319-90064-3
eISBN: 978-3-319-90065-0
ISSN: 2627-535X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90065-0_11
Abstract
In 2010, the National Institute of Mental Health initiated the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), a new research framework for studying mental disorders. The RDoC is predicated on that psychiatric disorders are fundamentally disorders of the brain, which are best conceptualized as dimensional, and not discrete, phenomena. The RDoC approach stands in contrast to the more traditional Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which relies on discrete diagnostic categories such that patients either meet diagnostic criteria or not. The present chapter has three explicit aims: (a) to describe the conceptualization of personality disorders (PDs) from DSM-III (American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Author, Washington, DC, 1980) and forward, including the differences between categorical and dimensional models of psychopathology; (b) to present some of the fundamental differences between the DSM-5 and RDoC perspectives; and (c) to describe challenges for the RDoC framework along with a possible alternative to it, namely, the network approach to psychological disorders.
In 2010, the National Institute of Mental Health initiated the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), a new research framework for studying mental disorders. The RDoC is predicated on that psychiatric disorders are fundamentally disorders of the brain, which are best conceptualized as dimensional, and not discrete, phenomena. The RDoC approach stands in contrast to the more traditional Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which relies on discrete diagnostic categories such that patients either meet diagnostic criteria or not. The present chapter has three explicit aims: (a) to describe the conceptualization of personality disorders (PDs) from DSM-III (American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Author, Washington, DC, 1980) and forward, including the differences between categorical and dimensional models of psychopathology; (b) to present some of the fundamental differences between the DSM-5 and RDoC perspectives; and (c) to describe challenges for the RDoC framework along with a possible alternative to it, namely, the network approach to psychological disorders.
UTU Research Portal