When patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single diagnostic label. I wrote for the @nytimes.com on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Opinion | We’re Thinking About Mental Health Diagnoses All Wrong

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Are different desires (e.g., food, sleep, alcohol, cannabis) experienced and regulated the same way? We tested this question in a new preprint with Yang Liu, @minzlicht.bsky.social, @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social, and @kevinmking.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Computationally formalising a verbal theory is an eye-opening experience because it forces you to openly state all the assumptions that the theory rest on

‼️ Just out in Psychological Assessment! Check out our new paper exploring the hierarchical structure of the HiTOP-SR scales and their associations with daily life experiences. dx.doi.org/10.1037/pas0...

Excited to share this new paper in JoPaCS! We tested whether HiTOP dimensions generalize across sociodemographic strata with MNLFA. After correcting for measurement noninvariance, @hitop-system.bsky.social dimensions remained broadly generalizable. Link to paper: doi.org/10.1037/abn0...

We’ve just launched the HiTOP Teaching Hub—a space to collect and share materials for teaching dimensional models. If you have anything you're willing to share, please contact @kathleenwreardon.bsky.social or @miriforbes.bsky.social Here's what we have so far: www.hitop-system.org/hitop-teachi...

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Information about HiTOP self-report measures, including HiTOP-PRO, the harmful substance use module, and B-HiTOP

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Curious/skeptical how the measurement properties of child + adult forms of the same measure align over time? New paper on the longitudinal MI of the Youth/Adult Self-Report ASEBA across 6 waves + 15 years now live + #OpenAccess @ Assessment. 1/4 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

💫💫💫 Extremely excited about our new pre-print leveraging the strengths of hierarchical dimensional models of psychopathology to identify distinct behavior profiles from smartphone sensor data! Check out @aidangcw.bsky.social 's awesome thread on our findings!

Aidan Wright@aidangcw.bsky.social · 2y ago

Digital psychiatry is an exciting field and includes efforts to enhance diagnosis and monitoring of mental illness using passive sensing (eg smartphone sensors). But the literature is rife with small N studies focusing on single diagnoses. That's a huge problem for two reasons... 1/

What is structural racism, and how do we measure it? @tyson-brown.bsky.social, @pahoman.bsky.social, and I have a forthcoming Annual Review article on @socarxiv.bsky.social. Check it before studying structural racism is banned (and follow Tyson and Trish, new to Bluesky). osf.io/6zbgh/

Advancing the Scientific Study of Structural Racism: Concepts, Measures, and Methods

This review provides ten actionable recommendations for advancing the scientific study of structural racism through theoretically grounded and empirically robust measures and methods. By offering conc...

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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

Introduction to HiTOP

YouTube video by HiTOP

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Miri Forbes@miriforbes.bsky.social · 2y ago

Launched a new HiTOP 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

A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access. Causal inference is hard: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Causal inference on human behaviour - Nature Human Behaviour

In this Review, Drew Bailey et al. present an accessible, non-technical overview of key challenges for causal inference in studies of human behaviour as well as methodological solutions to these chall...

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We finally made it to Bluesky! Looking forward to finding and sharing great research over here.

Blog on our new JoPACS viewpoint led by @molthof.bsky.social, highlighting problems of ignoring socio-environmental causes for psychopathology, using the example of the p-factor for which all dominant theories position liability *within* the person. eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...

Are causes of mental disorders in the person or in the environment? » Eiko Fried

Brief summary of our new paper on the personal-internal reification of p-factor causes with Merlijn Olthof and Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff

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I have been concerned for years that states will block faculty from attending certain conferences or accepting some grants. It looks like that is now happening at North Texas. www.chronicle.com/article/a-te...

Be in community with other doctoral students journeying through academia. Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #DocStudents go.bsky.app/QTfevfQ

Quick thread for my latest paper, now out in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (JoPACS). APA hell link here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... We used IRT in the NESARC and found that impulsive sex and chronic suicidality as indicators of BPD criteria are biased in sexual minorities 1/n

Had a wonderful time presenting at the three-minute thesis competition today @smumoodygraduateschool! Grateful for the People’s Choice award and my supportive colleagues! ☺️ #3MT

Not sure if I’m doing this right, but I’ve had a go at starting a ‘Reconceptualising psychopathology’ starter pack (e.g., HiTOP, RDoC, dynamic systems, clinical staging). Please do send me suggestions or requests to be added! go.bsky.app/Pek9ycQ

go.bsky.app/SsNPcGP Here is the Starter pack!!! We have over 100 spots available (and if we hit the limit of 150, I'll make a part two). PLEASE share, ask to be added, and let me know if you'd like to see anyone added.

Looking to follow more graduate students in psychology? Look no further. Comment to be added! go.bsky.app/SJfTsPJ

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 in CPS! ✨ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/🧵

Reconstructing Psychopathology: A Data-Driven Reorganization of the Symptoms in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Miriam K. Forbes, Andrew Baillie, Philip J. Batterham, Aliso...

In this study, we reduced the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) to its constituent symptoms and reorganized the...

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Miri Forbes@miriforbes.bsky.social · 3y ago

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 @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social @aidangcw.bsky.social