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Wittchen H, Knappe S, Andersson G, Araya R, Banos Rivera RM, Barkham M, Bech P, Beckers T, Berger T, Berking M, Berrocal C, Botella C, Carlbring P, Chouinard G, Colom F, Csillag C, Cujipers P, David D, Emmelkamp PM, Essau CA, Fava GA, Goschke T, Hermans D, Hofmann SG, Lutz W, Muris P, Ollendick TH, Raes F, Rief W, Riper H, Tossani E, van der Oord S, Vervliet B, Haro JM, Schumann G. The need for a behavioural science focus in research on mental health and mental disorders. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 2014; 23 Suppl 1:28-40. [PMID: 24375534 PMCID: PMC6878303 DOI: 10.1002/mpr.1409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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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Affiliation(s)
- Hans‐Ulrich Wittchen
- Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies (CELOS)Technische Universität DresdenDresdenGermany
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- Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies (CELOS)Technische Universität DresdenDresdenGermany
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- Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Swedish Institute for Disability ResearchLinköping UniversityLinköpingSweden
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry SectionKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
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- Academic Unit of Psychiatry, School of Social and Community MedicineUniversity of BristolBristolUK
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- Centre for Psychological Services Research, Department of PsychologyUniversity of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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- Psychiatric Research Unit, Mental Health Centre North ZealandUniversity of CopenhagenHillerodDenmark
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- Department of PsychologyKU LeuvenLeuvenBelgium
- Department of Clinical PsychologyUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and PsychotherapyUniversity of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Institute of Clinical Psychology and PsychotherapyUniversity of MarburgMarburgGermany
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- PAIDI Research Group on Epidemiology and Psychometrics in Health and Behavioural SciencesUniversity of MalagaMalagaSpain
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- Department of PsychologyStockholm UniversityStockholmSweden
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- Department of Psychiatry, Saint Antoine Hospital, EA 3522, Centre de Recherches PsychanalyseMédecine et Société (CRPMS)ParisFrance
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- Psychoeducation and Psychological Treatments Area, Barcelona Bipolar Disorders UnitIDIBAPS‐CIBERSAM, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital ClinicBarcelonaSpain
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- Psychiatric Research Unit, Mental Health Centre North ZealandUniversity of CopenhagenHillerodDenmark
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- Department of Clinical PsychologyVU University AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- EMGO Institute for Health and Care ResearchVU University AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- VU University Medical CentreAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Leuphana UniversityLüneburgGermany
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy; Mount Sinai School of MedicineBabes‐Bolyai UniversityCluj‐NapocaRomania
- Department of Oncological SciencesNew YorkUSA
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- Department of Clinical PsychologyUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Psychosomatics and Clinimetrics, Department of PsychologyUniversity of BolognaBolognaItaly
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- Department of PsychologyTechnische Universität DresdenDresdenGermany
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- Department of PsychologyUniversity of TrierTrierGermany
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- Maastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Institute of Clinical Psychology and PsychotherapyUniversity of MarburgMarburgGermany
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- Department of Clinical PsychologyVU University AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- EMGO Institute for Health and Care ResearchVU University AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Department of PsychiatryVU University Medical CentreAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Psychosomatics and Clinimetrics, Department of PsychologyUniversity of BolognaBolognaItaly
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud MentalCIBERSAMMadridSpain
- Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Fundació Sant Joan de DéuSant Boi de LLobregatBarcelonaSpain
- Universitat de BarcelonaBarcelonaSpain
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- Institute of PsychiatryKing's College LondonLondonUK
- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of PsychiatryKing's College LondonLondonUK
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Bird SP, Murphy M, Bake T, Albayrak Ö, Mercer JG. Getting science to the citizen--'food addiction' at the British Science Festival as a case study of interactive public engagement with high profile scientific controversy. Obes Facts 2013; 6:103-8. [PMID: 23493065 PMCID: PMC5644754 DOI: 10.1159/000349916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2012] [Accepted: 01/08/2013] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Sue P. Bird
- Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
- *Prof. Dr. Julian G. Mercer, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, AB21 9SB (UK),
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