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The need for a behavioural science focus in research on mental health and mental disorders

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, December 2013
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Title
The need for a behavioural science focus in research on mental health and mental disorders
Published in
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, December 2013
DOI 10.1002/mpr.1409
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Hans‐Ulrich Wittchen, Susanne Knappe, Gerhard Andersson, Ricardo Araya, Rosa M. Banos Rivera, Michael Barkham, Per Bech, Tom Beckers, Thomas Berger, Matthias Berking, Carmen Berrocal, Christina Botella, Per Carlbring, Guy Chouinard, Francesc Colom, Claudio Csillag, Pim Cujipers, Daniel David, Paul M.G. Emmelkamp, Cecilia A. Essau, Giovanni A. Fava, Thomas Goschke, Dirk Hermans, Stefan G. Hofmann, Wolfgang Lutz, Peter Muris, Thomas H. Ollendick, Filip Raes, Winfried Rief, Heleen Riper, Eliana Tossani, Saskia van der Oord, Bram Vervliet, Josep M. Haro, Gunter Schumann

Abstract

Psychology as a science offers an enormous diversity of theories, principles, and methodological approaches to understand mental health, abnormal functions and behaviours and mental disorders. A selected overview of the scope, current topics as well as strength and gaps in Psychological Science may help to depict the advances needed to inform future research agendas specifically on mental health and mental disorders. From an integrative psychological perspective, most maladaptive health behaviours and mental disorders can be conceptualized as the result of developmental dysfunctions of psychological functions and processes as well as neurobiological and genetic processes that interact with the environment. The paper presents and discusses an integrative translational model, linking basic and experimental research with clinical research as well as population-based prospective-longitudinal studies. This model provides a conceptual framework to identify how individual vulnerabilities interact with environment over time, and promote critical behaviours that might act as proximal risk factors for ill-health and mental disorders. Within the models framework, such improved knowledge is also expected to better delineate targeted preventive and therapeutic interventions that prevent further escalation in early stages before the full disorder and further complications thereof develop. In contrast to conventional "personalized medicine" that typically targets individual (genetic) variation of patients who already have developed a disease to improve medical treatment, the proposed framework model, linked to a concerted funding programme of the "Science of Behaviour Change", carries the promise of improved diagnosis, treatment and prevention of health-risk behaviour constellations as well as mental disorders.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 4 3%
United Kingdom 2 1%
France 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Unknown 141 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 32 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 13%
Student > Master 16 11%
Professor 14 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Other 27 18%
Unknown 32 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 62 41%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 11%
Social Sciences 5 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 3%
Other 16 11%
Unknown 43 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 April 2018.
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