%0 Journal Article
%T A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Can Transform Mental Health Research
%A Aaron L. Pincus
%A Aidan G. C. Wright
%A Alexander J. Shackman
%A Andrew E. Skodol
%A Anna R. Docherty
%A Bo Bach
%A Camilo J. Ruggero
%A Christopher C. Conway
%A Christopher J. Hopwood
%A Christopher J. Patrick
%A Colin G. DeYoung
%A David C. Cicero
%A David H. Zald
%A David Watson
%A Douglas B. Samuel
%A Eiko I. Fried
%A Irwin D. Waldman
%A Jennifer L. Tackett
%A Johannes Zimmermann
%A Katherine G. Jonas
%A Kelsie T. Forbush
%A Lee Anna Clark
%A Marina A. Bornovalova
%A Masha Y. Ivanova
%A Matthew Sunderland
%A Michael Chmielewski
%A Michael N. Hallquist
%A Miriam K. Forbes
%A Mohammad H. Afzali
%A Monika A. Waszczuk
%A Natacha Carragher
%A Nicholas R. Eaton
%A Praveetha Patalay
%A R. Michael Bagby
%A Robert D. Latzman
%A Robert F. Krueger
%A Roman Kotov
%A Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt
%A Susan C. South
%A Tim Dalgleish
%A Ulrich Reininghaus
%J Perspectives on Psychological Science
%@ 1745-6924
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1745691618810696
%X For more than a century, research on psychopathology has focused on categorical diagnoses. Although this work has produced major discoveries, growing evidence points to the superiority of a dimensional approach to the science of mental illness. Here we outline one such dimensional system¡ªthe Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)¡ªthat is based on empirical patterns of co-occurrence among psychological symptoms. We highlight key ways in which this framework can advance mental-health research, and we provide some heuristics for using HiTOP to test theories of psychopathology. We then review emerging evidence that supports the value of a hierarchical, dimensional model of mental illness across diverse research areas in psychological science. These new data suggest that the HiTOP system has the potential to accelerate and improve research on mental-health problems as well as efforts to more effectively assess, prevent, and treat mental illness
%K mental illness
%K nosology
%K individual differences
%K transdiagnostic
%K Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology
%K HiTOP
%K ICD
%K DSM
%K RDoC
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691618810696