Ongoing and Future Challenges of the Network Approach to Psychopathology: From Theoretical Conjectures to Clinical Translations

Blanchard, M. Annelise; Heeren, Alexandre

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“…Though only recently pioneered by Borsboom and his colleagues (e.g., Borsboom, 2017;Borsboom et al, 2011, Borsboom & Cramer, 2013, this approach has quickly become a hot topic in contemporary clinical psychology. Many studies have thus accordingly used this framework to investigate the interrelations between systems of symptoms and speculate as to the clinical implications (for a general overview, see Blanchard & Heeren, 2022;McNally, 2021; for systematic reviews, see Contreras et al, 2019;Robinaugh et al, 2019).…”

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“…One of these network concepts is node centrality. The core tenet of this latter is that some nodes (here, symptoms) in the network are more important to the network structure than others (e.g., Blanchard & Heeren, 2022;McNally, 2021). Nodes are viewed as more central if they are especially connected to the rest of the network (i.e., sharing many strong connections with other nodes), because they can then influence the entire network.…”

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Excessive Worrying as a Central Feature of Anxiety during the First COVID-19 Lockdown-Phase in Belgium: Insights from a Network Approach

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Since the WHO declared the COVID-19 pandemic on March 11, 2020, the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has profoundly impacted public health and the economy worldwide. But there are not the only ones to be hit. The COVID-19 pandemic has also substantially altered mental health, with anxiety symptoms being one of the most frequently reported problems. Especially, the number of people reporting anxiety symptoms increased significantly during the first lockdown-phase compared to similar data collected before the pandemic. Yet, most of these studies relied on a unitary approach to anxiety, wherein its different constitutive features (i.e., symptoms) were tallied into one sum-score, thus ignoring any possibility of interactions between them. Therefore, in this study, we seek to map the associations between the core features of anxiety during the first weeks of the first Belgian COVID-19 lockdownphase (n = 2,829). To do so, we implemented, in a preregistered fashion, two distinct computational network approaches: a Gaussian graphical model and a Bayesian network modelling approach to estimate a directed acyclic graph. Despite their varying assumptions, constraints, and computational methods to determine nodes (i.e., the variables) and edges (i.e., the relations between them), both approaches pointed to excessive worrying as a node playing an especially influential role in the network system of the anxiety features. Altogether, our findings offer novel data-driven clues for the ongoing field's larger quest to examine, and eventually alleviate, the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…This emphasizes that future studies need to replicate current findings and/or test them in a confirmatory way. More generally, due to the novelty of the network analytic tools and the fact that concepts like centrality need to be further validated, practical clinical implications need to be formulated with great caution (Blanchard & Heeren, 2020). Still, symptom networks can provide a better understanding of psychopathology in specific groups beyond DSMbased diagnostic categories.…”

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Using clinical expertise and empirical data in constructing networks of trauma symptoms in refugee youth

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“…Though only recently pioneered by Borsboom and colleagues (Borsboom, 2017;Borsboom et al, 2011;Borsboom & Cramer, 2013), this approach has quickly grown prevalent in contemporary clinical psychological sciences. Many studies are now using this framework to investigate the interrelations between systems of symptoms and to speculate as to the clinical implications (for a general overview, see Blanchard & Heeren, 2022; for systematic reviews, see Contreras et al, 2019;Robinaugh et al, 2020).…”

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“…Moreover, using a network approach to model psychopathology allows the adoption of network tools and graph theory concepts to understand mental disorders. One of these network concepts is node centrality, a tenet which posits that some nodes (here, symptoms) in the network are more important to the network structure than others (e.g., Blanchard & Heeren, 2022;McNally, 2016). Nodes are viewed as more central if they are especially connected to the rest of the network (i.e., sharing many strong connections with other nodes), because they can then influence the entire network.…”

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Emotional Exhaustion and Feeling Fed Up as the Driving Forces of Parental Burnout and its Consequences on Children: Insights from A Network Approach

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Parental burnout results from chronic stress in parenting, and it can be accompanied by harmful behaviors such as parental neglect and violence. Network analysis examines psychological phenomena within a system of its constituents, and thus it is promising for understanding the distinct features of parental burnout and behaviors related to it. Recently, Blanchard et al. (2021) conducted the first network analysis of parental burnout and related harmful behaviors in the family context, but did so using an outdated measure and conceptualization of parental burnout. In the present study, in a sample of French-speaking parents (N = 3218, from five different previous studies), we aimed to investigate how each of the four features in the new conceptualization of parental burnout (i.e., emotional exhaustion, feeling fed up, emotional distance, and contrast with the previous parental self) interact with one another and with parental neglect and violence in a network system. In this preregistered reanalysis, we generated two network models commonly used with cross-sectional data: a Graphical Gaussian Model and a Directed Acyclic Graph. Our results point to emotional exhaustion and feeling fed up as key driving forces of the network structure, while emotional distance appears as a critical feature tying parental burnout with parental neglect and violence.

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Ongoing and Future Challenges of the Network Approach to Psychopathology: From Theoretical Conjectures to Clinical Translations

Cited by 13 publications

References 83 publications

Excessive Worrying as a Central Feature of Anxiety during the First COVID-19 Lockdown-Phase in Belgium: Insights from a Network Approach

Excessive Worrying as a Central Feature of Anxiety during the First COVID-19 Lockdown-Phase in Belgium: Insights from a Network Approach

Using clinical expertise and empirical data in constructing networks of trauma symptoms in refugee youth

Emotional Exhaustion and Feeling Fed Up as the Driving Forces of Parental Burnout and its Consequences on Children: Insights from A Network Approach

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