A Transdiagnostic Approach to Mental Health Diagnosis
Faculty members Sylia Wilson and Whitney Ringwald recently published a paper entitled “Transdiagnostic Psychopathology Research Requires Comprehensive, Lifespan Coverage of Psychological Symptoms and Function and Ability: Commentary on Caspi et al. (2026),” in which they summarized and commented on a prior study on the diagnosis of mental health disorders. Although the original paper, “Why Psychopathology Research Should Avoid Studying One Mental Health Disorder at a Time: An Intergenerational and Developmental Evidence Base for Understanding “p”,” detailed a comprehensive approach to studying psychopathology, Wilson and her collaborators asserted that our understanding of psychopathology will be incomplete without ensuring that the full range of human experience, including strengths and abilities alongside clinical symptoms, is incorporated.
Sylia Wilson, PhD, faculty in the Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research Program (CSPR) area of the Department of Psychology, associate professor at the Institute of Child Development, and director of the Family Cognitive Affective Neurodevelopment (Fam CAN) Lab at the University of Minnesota.
Whitney Ringwald, PhD, assistant professor in the Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research Program (CSPR) area of the Department of Psychology and director of the Ringwald Laboratory at the University of Minnesota.
