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Stop Oversimplifying Mental Health Diagnoses
Episode 87

Stop Oversimplifying Mental Health Diagnoses

Under the Cortex

February 9, 202320m 41s

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Show Notes

Diagnoses often oversimplify complex mental health problems. How can researchers and practitioners avoid oversimplifications, improve research, and provide more effective and customized clinical practices? 

A recent article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science presented the advantages of studying mental health problems as systems, not syndromes. The author, APS Fellow Eiko Fried, a psychologist and methodologist at Leiden University, explains this new approach to how we see and classify mental health problems and how mental-health professionals might create better tools to address early risk of certain conditions, such as depression. 

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