- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Depression and Comorbidity
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editors
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
- From Comorbidity to Constructs: Recurring and Emergent Issues in Modeling Comorbidity
- Examining the Comorbidity Between Depression and the Anxiety Disorders From the Perspective of the Quadripartite Model
- Depressive Disorders, Comorbidity Issues, and Assessment Strategies
- Depression and Comorbidity with Panic Disorder
- Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Comorbidity
- Comorbidity of Social Anxiety Disorder and Depression
- Important Issues in Understanding Comorbidity Between Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder
- Depression and Alcohol Use
- Eating Disorders
- Comorbidity of Depression and Conduct Disorder
- Depression and Comorbidity: Personality Disorder
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Schizophrenia
- Suicide
- Comorbidity of Bipolar Disorder and Depression
- Depression and Cardiovascular Diseases
- Cancer and Depression
- Pain
- Obesity
- Sleep Disorders and Depression
- Multiple Sclerosis
- HIV/AIDS and Depression
- Depression in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Context for Comorbidity
- Depression in Dementia Syndromes
- Women’s Health: Comorbidity of Depression and Type 2 Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, and Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Intimate Relationships
- Family Relationships, Emotional Processes, and Adolescent Depression
- Perinatal Depression
- Multidisciplinary Treatments and Medications for Depressive Disorders and Comorbidity
- The Role of Community- and Home-Based Interventions in Late-Life Depression
- Treatment of Depressive Disorders and Comorbidity in Ethnic Minority Groups
- Psychosocial Interventions for Depressed Breast Cancer Patients
- Cognitive Therapy for Comorbid Depression
- The Big Picture
- Epilogue
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Assessment is at the very core of clinical and research endeavors to understand and ameliorate depressive disorders. In the current chapter, we discuss pressing issues in assessment of depressive disorders beginning with the definitional: how these disorders are conceptualized and classified. We highlight the DSM-IV-TR nosological organization of depressive disorders, and those disorders that are closely related (e.g., anxiety and adjustment disorders), as well as current depressive disorder proposals for the upcoming DSM-5. The high rates of comorbidity among the depressive and related disorders are discussed as an assessment challenge, and we propose a unified latent structure framework to supplement clinical assessment that involves characterizing individuals’ levels of underlying internalizing disorder liability. We discuss how disorders, and the latent internalizing liability, may manifest differently across subpopulations, such as age and ethnicity/culture. Finally, we discuss psychometric issues and conclude with a list of critical unanswered questions in depressive disorder assessment.
Keywords: assessment, depressive disorders, depression, comorbidity, internalizing, neuroticism
Nicholas R. Eaton, Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Robert F. Krueger, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota.
Access to the complete content on Oxford Handbooks Online requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter without a subscription.
Please subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you have purchased a print title that contains an access token, please see the token for information about how to register your code.
For questions on access or troubleshooting, please check our FAQs, and if you can''t find the answer there, please contact us.
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Depression and Comorbidity
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editors
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
- From Comorbidity to Constructs: Recurring and Emergent Issues in Modeling Comorbidity
- Examining the Comorbidity Between Depression and the Anxiety Disorders From the Perspective of the Quadripartite Model
- Depressive Disorders, Comorbidity Issues, and Assessment Strategies
- Depression and Comorbidity with Panic Disorder
- Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Comorbidity
- Comorbidity of Social Anxiety Disorder and Depression
- Important Issues in Understanding Comorbidity Between Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder
- Depression and Alcohol Use
- Eating Disorders
- Comorbidity of Depression and Conduct Disorder
- Depression and Comorbidity: Personality Disorder
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Schizophrenia
- Suicide
- Comorbidity of Bipolar Disorder and Depression
- Depression and Cardiovascular Diseases
- Cancer and Depression
- Pain
- Obesity
- Sleep Disorders and Depression
- Multiple Sclerosis
- HIV/AIDS and Depression
- Depression in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Context for Comorbidity
- Depression in Dementia Syndromes
- Women’s Health: Comorbidity of Depression and Type 2 Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, and Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Intimate Relationships
- Family Relationships, Emotional Processes, and Adolescent Depression
- Perinatal Depression
- Multidisciplinary Treatments and Medications for Depressive Disorders and Comorbidity
- The Role of Community- and Home-Based Interventions in Late-Life Depression
- Treatment of Depressive Disorders and Comorbidity in Ethnic Minority Groups
- Psychosocial Interventions for Depressed Breast Cancer Patients
- Cognitive Therapy for Comorbid Depression
- The Big Picture
- Epilogue
- Index
