Reconceptualizing mental health in cancer survivorship

Abstract

Mental health for cancer survivors in both research and clinical applications has strongly adopted a traditional nosological approach, involving the classification of psychopathology into discrete disorders. However, this approach has recently faced considerable criticism due to issues such as high comorbidity and within-disorder symptom heterogeneity across populations. Moreover, there are additional specific issues impacting the validity of traditional approaches in cancer survivorship populations, including the physiological effects of cancer and its treatments. In response, we provide the case for the hierarchical dimensional approach within psycho-oncology, in particular the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). We discuss not only the potential utility of HiTOP to research and clinical applications within psycho-oncology, but also its limitations, and what is required to apply this approach within cancer survivorship.

RAS ID

71202

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

8-1-2024

Volume

10

Issue

8

Funding Information

MASCC / National Health and Medical Research Council / National Institutes of Health (R01 AA026879, R01 MH048463, R01 MH131606, R01AG053217, R01AG077742, U19AG51426)

PubMed ID

38890021

School

Exercise Medicine Research Institute / School of Medical and Health Sciences

Grant Number

NHMRC Numbers : APP2018070, GNT1154651

Copyright

free_to_read

Publisher

Elsevier

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Haywood, D., Kotov, R., Krueger, R. F., Wright, A. G., Forbes, M. K., Dauer, E., ... & Hart, N. H. (2024). Reconceptualizing mental health in cancer survivorship. Trends in Cancer, 10(8), 677-686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trecan.2024.05.008

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10.1016/j.trecan.2024.05.008