Causality and psychopathology / edited by Patrick E. Shrout, Katherine M. Keyes, Katherine Ornstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

American Psychopathological Association. Meeting (98th : 2008 : New York, N.Y.)

Contributor:

Keyes, Katherine M.

Ornstein, Katherine.

Shrout, Patrick E.

Series:

American Psychopathological Association series.

American Psychopathological Association

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry--Research--Methodology--Congresses.

Psychiatry.

Psychology, Pathological--Etiology--Congresses.

Psychology, Pathological.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Containing contributions from leading scholars of causal thinking in epidemiology and psychopathology research, this volume is based on presentations at the ground-breaking 2008 meeting of the American Psychopathological Association. The authors explore the meaning of causal statements that are made from statistical and experimental evidence; then, they suggest novel approaches to analyse these statements and thus make them more informative and medically rigorous.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; PART I: CAUSAL THEORY AND SCIENTIFIC INFERENCE; 1 Integrating Causal Analysis into Psychopathology Research; 2 What Would Have Been Is Not What Would Be: Counterfactuals of the Past and Potential Outcomes of the Future; 3 The Mathematics of Causal Relations; 4 Causal Thinking in Psychiatry: A Genetic and Manipulationist Perspective; 5 Understanding the Effects of Menopausal Hormone Therapy: Using the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trials and Observational Study to Improve Inference; PART II: INNOVATIONS IN METHODS

6 Alternative Graphical Causal Models and the Identification of Direct Effects7 General Approaches to Analysis of Course: Applying Growth Mixture Modeling to Randomized Trials of Depression Medication; 8 Statistical Methodology for a SMART Design in the Development of Adaptive Treatment Strategies; 9 Obtaining Robust Causal Evidence From Observational Studies: Can Genetic Epidemiology Help?; 10 Rare Variant Approaches to Understanding the Causes of Complex Neuropsychiatric Disorders; PART III: CAUSAL THINKING IN PSYCHIATRY; 11 Causal Thinking in Developmental Disorders

12 Causes of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder13 Causal Thinking for Objective Psychiatric Diagnostic Criteria: A Programmatic Approach in Therapeutic Context; 14 The Need for Dimensional Approaches in Discerning the Origins of Psychopathology; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Conference proceedings.

Previously issued in print: 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-756565-4

1-283-01001-1

9786613010018

0-19-984250-7

OCLC:

704533715