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Benjamin B Lahey1, Henning Tiemeier2, Robert F Krueger3
1Department of Public Health Sciences (MC 2000) University of Chicago Chicago Illinois USA.
Background:
An ongoing positive revolution advocates a new approach to the individual differences in human emotions, cognitions, and behavior that cause distress and impair functioning. This revolution endorses the long-proposed, but still unrealized rejection of the medical model, which attributes psychological problems to a sick brain or mind. In addition, it advocates replacing the binary diagnoses used in ICD and DSM, which assume a clear discontinuity between "normal" and "abnormal" functioning, with continuous dimensions of psychological problems.
Method:
Selective literature review.
Results And Discussion:
Seven strong reasons are provided for adopting a dimensional approach.
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