Disorders without borders: current and future directions in the meta-structure of mental disorders

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 339-350

  Carragher, Natacha ^a   Krueger, Robert F ^b   Eaton, Nicholas R ^c   Slade, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DSM; Externalizing; Internalizing; Meta structure; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; COMPLICATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE;

HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 84925482692     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: 14339285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-014-1004-z     Document Type: Review

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