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Perceived Causal Problem Networks: Reliability, Central Problems, and Clinical Utility for Depression.
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- Predicting the outcome of psychotherapy for chronic depression by person-specific symptom networks.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2024Article
- Towards precision in the diagnostic profiling of patients: leveraging symptom dynamics as a clinical characterisation dimension in the assessment of major depressive disorder.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2024Article
- Time-Varying Network Models for the Temporal Dynamics of Depressive Symptomatology in Patients With Depressive Disorders: Secondary Analysis of Longitudinal Observational Data.JMIR mental health · 2024Article
- Perceived Causal Networks: Clinical Utility Evaluated by Therapists and Patients.Journal for person-oriented research · 2023Article
- A network approach can improve eating disorder conceptualization and treatment.Nature reviews psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Personalized case conceptualization is often regarded as a prerequisite for treatment success in psychotherapy for patients with comorbidity. This article presents Perceived Causal Networks, a novel method in which patients rate perceived causal relations among behavioral and emotional problems. First, 231 respondents screening positive for depression completed an online Perceived Causal Networks questionnaire. Median completion time (including repeat items to assess immediate test-retest reliability) was 22.7 minutes, and centrality measures showed excellent immediate test-retest reliability. Networks were highly idiosyncratic, but worrying and ruminating were the most central items for a third of respondents. Second, 50 psychotherapists rated the clinical utility of Perceived Causal Networks visualizations. Ninety-six percent rated the networks as clinically useful, and the information in the individual visualizations was judged to contain 47% of the information typically collected during a psychotherapy assessment phase. Future studies should individualize networks further and evaluate the validity of perceived causal relations.
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