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Sydney, Australia
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What happens when we break down DSM diagnoses into their individual symptoms and rebuild our classification system from the ground up? Do we see familiar DSM constructs, HiTOP dimensions, or something else entirely?
New paper out today! ✨ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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ALT Title and author information for the paper at the link in the tweet
How do your favorite disorders fare in a data-driven reorganization of the DSM-5?
Find out in this new preprint where we followed the patterns in 14,762 individuals’ symptoms with the goal of overcoming limitations in both the DSM and @HiTOP_system
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ALT A representation of how symptoms of some exemplar constructs in the DSM-5 map onto the hierarchical structure we found. On the left are examples of disorders with symptoms that mostly hung together in the data-driven structure (i.e., ‘notably homogenous disorders’) and on the right are examples of disorders with symptoms that scattered throughout the data-driven structure (i.e., ‘notably heterogeneous disorders’).
Celebrating five years since I joined Twitter by renewed efforts to find other places where you're all hanging out.
Just joined LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/miri-forbes-… (have *no* idea what I'm doing) and still enjoying Bluesky bsky.app/profile/miriforbes.…
Hope to meet again someday :)
ALT Looks like an AI generated number '5' made out of intricate quilling
Looking through my backlog of emails I found a Christmas morning surprise that this paper made it to print in a real life issue of Psychological Methods! 🎁
Hope these ideas can help streamline some hierarchies
doi.org/10.1037/met0000546
*So* excited this paper is out in the world!
Published paper: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/…
Open access: osf.io/ksxwv
It proposes an extended bass-ackward approach based on three modifications to Goldberg’s method for delineating hierarchies 🧵
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ALT A comparison of the two solutions: The traditional bass-ackward approach is shown as the “before” picture with 10 components and 12 correlations; the extended bass-ackward approach is shown as a simplified “after” picture with five components and four correlations.
Also, Tash Turner-Cohen is available for casual RA work next year in the Sydney area (or remotely) if anyone is in the market for a brilliant addition to their team!
Just uploaded a new video that provides a brief introduction and overview of HiTOP! Tash did awesome work on this one too.
Hope it can be useful for some of you - please do share it widely with anyone who you think might be able to use it: youtu.be/196rqdAv4_w
Just uploaded a new video that provides a brief introduction and overview of HiTOP! Tash did awesome work on this one too.
Hope it can be useful for some of you - please do share it widely with anyone who you think might be able to use it: youtu.be/196rqdAv4_w
Launched a new @HiTOP_system YouTube channel to host some videos my RA Tash Turner-Cohen and I are working on.
We've just posted the first one, which gives a brief overview of some of the limitations of the DSM: youtu.be/4Kwu_1oMD9U
Launched a new @HiTOP_system YouTube channel to host some videos my RA Tash Turner-Cohen and I are working on.
We've just posted the first one, which gives a brief overview of some of the limitations of the DSM: youtu.be/4Kwu_1oMD9U
We hope the videos we're making can be helpful for students, lecturers, clinicians, researchers, and anyone else interested in the classification of mental illness. Keen to hear your thoughts!
More to come (eventually).
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Feeling very honored to have won the Award for Excellent PhD Thesis in Psychology!
At the start of my PhD, I wouldn't have believed I could achieve this. I am very grateful for my amazing mentors who got me where I am today (@anxietydoc1 & @MiriForbes). Thanks @AustPsych!
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Just Dropped at Behavior Therapy:
Targeting Higher-Order Dimensions of Personality in Treatment as a Parsimonious Means to Address Comorbid Psychopathology
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Excited to be presenting this work at #SMHR24 this week (Friday at 3:27pm to be precise), and looking forward to hanging out! Hope to see lots of you there 🤗
What happens when we break down DSM diagnoses into their individual symptoms and rebuild our classification system from the ground up? Do we see familiar DSM constructs, HiTOP dimensions, or something else entirely?
New paper out today! ✨ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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ALT Title and author information for the paper at the link in the tweet
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A few more weeks to apply! 😊
My lab uses mixed-methods approaches to examine factors that shape the mental health trajectories of Black youth & adults, with a focus on identifying protective factors to reduce suicide vulnerability and racial trauma
psychology.berkeley.edu/stud…
I am thrilled to share that this year, I am reviewing applications for the Clinical Psychology PhD program at @BerkeleyPsych!
I will also be hiring a lab manager --lab website with more info coming soon! Please help spread the word!
Is anyone doing multi-informant work in the psychopathology--personality space and interested in working with Hannah et al. on this @HiTOP_system symposium? They're looking for one more presenter to complete their troupe!
🚨Call for Collaborators🚨
HiTOP 2025 is just around the corner, and I’m excited to propose a symposium on "Leveraging Self and Peer Ratings for Comprehensive HiTOP Spectra Assessment"! 🧠
If you're working with self & peer data to explore links between personality and psychopathology—and want to present alongside Dr. Colin DeYoung as our discussant—please DM me! ☺️
#HiTOP2025 #Psychopathology #Personality #PID5 #FFM
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Final edit of email to keep exclamation points below the level indicating mental illness
Here’s a nice, brief news article on this project from my uni’s media team based on a chat with the brilliant Georgia Gowing: lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article…
Last of the self-promotion for now 😊
@PsyMQ @Lifespan_MQ
What happens when we break down DSM diagnoses into their individual symptoms and rebuild our classification system from the ground up? Do we see familiar DSM constructs, HiTOP dimensions, or something else entirely?
New paper out today! ✨ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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ALT Title and author information for the paper at the link in the tweet
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A new study by Centre member A/Prof @MiriForbes suggests moving away from traditional #MentalHealth diagnoses to a data-driven method that examines how symptoms naturally co-occur, potentially transforming treatment👉lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article… #MentalHealthResearch @PsyMQ
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On this week's episode of #UndertheCortex, APS's @OGurcanl interviewed @MiriForbes. Listen to learn more about this #clinicalpsychscience article psychologicalscience.org/new… #ClinicalScience #MentalHealth
What happens when we break down DSM diagnoses into their individual symptoms and rebuild our classification system from the ground up? Do we see familiar DSM constructs, HiTOP dimensions, or something else entirely?
New paper out today! ✨ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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ALT Title and author information for the paper at the link in the tweet
New brief podcast interview on this project with @OGurcanl for the @PsychScience podcast ‘Under the Cortex’. We cover a lot of ground in 20 minutes!
A New Approach to Understanding Psychopathology: Insights from the HiTOP Model: psychologicalscience.podbean…
What happens when we break down DSM diagnoses into their individual symptoms and rebuild our classification system from the ground up? Do we see familiar DSM constructs, HiTOP dimensions, or something else entirely?
New paper out today! ✨ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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ALT Title and author information for the paper at the link in the tweet
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If you are interested in reading more around these considerations check out our recent publications:
(1) Reconceptualizing Mental Health in Cancer Survivorship cell.com/trends/cancer/fullt…
(2) Is It Time to Discard the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in Psycho-Oncology?sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
(3) Avoiding the Pitfalls of the DSM-5: A primer for Health Professionals sciencedirect.com/science/ar…