Causality and Psychopathology

Abstract

"Part of the new American Psychopathological Association Series. 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 analyze these statements and thus make them more informative and medically rigorous. The collection of chapters uniquely includes both methodological contributions and detailed assessments of how causal inferences can be made when considering research results on developmental psychopathology, clinical psychopharmacology, personality disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and psychiatric genetics. In analyzing causal references, the authors examine controversies surrounding various disorders and their treatment"--Provided by publisher. Causal thinking in psychopathology research / Patrick E. Shrout -- What would have been is not what would be : counterfactuals of the past and potential outcomes of the future / Sharon Schwartz, Nicolle M. Gatto, Ulka B. Campbell -- The mathematics of causal relations / Judea Pearl -- Causal thinking in psychiatry : a genetic and manipulationist perspective / Kenneth S. Kendler -- Understanding the effects of menopausal hormone therapy using the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trials and Observational Study to improve inference / Garnet L Anderson, Ross L. Prentice -- Alternative graphical causal models and the identification of direct effects / James Robins, Thomas Richardson -- General approaches to analysis of course : applying growth mixture modeling to randomized trials of depression medication / Bengt Muthén [and others] -- Statistical methodology for a SMART design in the development of adaptive treatment strategies / Alena I. Oetting [and others] -- Obtaining robust causal evidence from observational studies : can genetic epidemiology help? / George Davey Smith -- Rare variant approaches to understanding the causes of complex neuropsychiatric disorders / Matthew W. State -- Causal thinking in developmental disorders / E. Jane Costello, Adrian Angold -- Causes of posttraumatic stress disorder / Naomi Breslau -- Causal thinking for objective psychiatric diagnostic criteria : a programmatic approach in therapeutic context / Donald F. Klein -- The need for dimensional approaches in discerning the origins of psychopathology / Robert F. Krueger, Daniel J. Goldman.