Developing an integrative level–dimensional taxonomy model for rehabilitation psychology research and practice.

Abstract

This integrative level-dimensional taxonomy model provides a structure for organizing all aspects of rehabilitation psychology relevant to understanding, assessing, and influencing the rehabilitation process. Suggestions for development and research are provided for the taxonomy model. (PsycINFO Database Record

Factitious disorder by proxy, parent alienation, and the argument for interrelated multidimensional diagnoses.

“…The widely discussed issue of categorical and dimensional diagnosis has continued its development as well (e.g., Kraemer, Noda, & O’Hara, 2004) and this discussion is at the core of Bütz et al’s (2009) reconceptualization of FDBP. This debate has received important updates (see Biondi, Gaetano, Pasquini, & Picardi, 2018; Mermis, 2018; Nazem, Spitzer, Brenner, & Bahraini, 2014). Of particular significance are those who have taken the long view regarding the artificial distinction imposed on diagnostic phenomena by categorization at the expense of dimensional considerations in the DSM–5 .…”