Welcome to the new HiTOP Teaching Hub! If you have classroom activities, readings, syllabi, case examples, slides, recorded teaching segments, or other resources you are willing to share to help teach dimensional models, please send them to Kathleen Reardon or Miri Forbes.
Training Exercise: Rating clinical vignettes using both the DSM and HiTOP systems
Caroline Balling developed a series of clinical vignettes, integrated into a training exercise where individuals can rate the vignettes using both DSM and HiTOP systems. You can find more information here.
Teaching HiTOP: Strategies for Diverse Learning Contexts and Audiences
Kathleen Reardon facilitated a Roundtable Discussion at the 2025 HiTOP meeting in Denver, CO. You can find the slides from the session here and a summary of the ideas generated during the discussion here.
Introductory YouTube Videos
Miri Forbes and an RA in her lab, Tash Turner-Cohen, have started creating some short videos for a new HiTOP YouTube channel. The first two videos are embedded below. Please feel free to use and share them - the hope is that they might be useful for students, lecturers, clinicians, researchers, or anyone else interested in HiTOP.
If you're interested in drafting a script for a video topic or contributing in another way, please contact Miri (miri.forbes@mq.edu.au).
This video provides a brief introduction to the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP).
This video provides a brief introduction to some prominent limitations of traditional categorical approaches to classification, like the DSM.
Assessing HiTOP Understanding: A Survey on Familiarity, Perceptions, and Engagement
Please consider supporting a project on how the HiTOP model is being taught and understood by completing or sharing this short, anonymous survey: https://csufull.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1AglpZn0L6OuGUe
