Distinguishing between the validity and utility of psychiatric diagnoses.

By R. Kendell, A. Jablensky. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Philosophy

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The diagnosis of mental disorders: the problem of reification. (2010, background): “Comorbidity is so extensive among DSM-IV diagnoses (Kessler et al. 2005b) as to forcefully raise questions about the underlying structure and assumptions of the classification (Kendell & Jablensky 2003).”
Depression, anxiety and somatization in primary care: syndrome overlap and functional impairment. (2008, background): “Given these associations among the three syndromes and despite historical and recent assumptions to the contrary, there is little evidence that depression, anxiety and somatization are separated by natural boundaries [23].”
Childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders as predictors of young adult disorders. (2009, background): “One accepted measure of the utility of a psychiatric diagnosis is the extent to which it predicts future psychiatric functioning.(62,63) On this measure, ODD may be in a class by itself.”
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies (2017, neutral): “Sixth, we conclude with an overview of limitations and future directions of this work. provided a common language for the field (Kendell & Jablensky, 2003).”
Toward the future of psychiatric diagnosis: the seven pillars of RDoC (2013, background): “The problems have been extensively documented (for example, [14-18]) and do not need to be”
Toward ICD-11: Improving the Clinical Utility of WHO's International Classification of Mental Disorders (2010, background): “…remain elusive, there is increasing concern that current diagnostic systems are characterized by serious problems in clinical utility, even among those whose names are closely associated with their development (e.g., Andreasen, 2007; First, 2010, this issue, pp. 465–473; Kendall & Jablensky, 2003).”
Cognitive Behavioural Processes Across Psychological Disorders: A Transdiagnostic Approach To Research And Treatment (2004, background): “Despite the disadvantages of classification systems, many in the field point to their heuristic value (Brown and Chorpita 1996) and their utility (Kendell and Jablensky 2003).”
Mood and anxiety disorders associated with chronic pain: an examination in a nationally representative sample (2003, result): “…they are often favored because many view psychopathology as distributed along a continuum rather than consisting of discrete disease entities (see Kendell and Jablensky, 2003), and self-report measures assess symptoms in a manner that is consistent with this dimensional conceptualization of…”
How can we conceptualize behavioral addiction without pathologizing common behaviors? (2017, neutral): “boundaries [25,30], even if some common features are shared with existing disorders at the phenomenological”
Definition and description of schizophrenia in the DSM-5. (2013, background): “Its validity (Robins and Guze, 1970; Kendell and Jablensky, 2003) is supported by a range of antecedent (familial aggregation, environmental risk factors), and predictive (diagnostic stability, course of illness, treatment response) validators (Bromet et al., 2011; Korver-Nieberg et al., 2011),…”