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.
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.
Slide Deck for Introducing HiTOP
Monika Waszczuk shared the slide deck she uses to introduce HiTOP to clinical graduate students. You can download the PowerPoint file here.
Syllabus for Teaching Psychopathology
Stephen Benning shared his syllabus for teaching graduate-level psychopathology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with content and readings related to HiTOP. You can download a pdf of the syllabus here.
Textbook: Psychopathology and Mental Health (10th Edition)
By Oltmanns, Emery, Forbush, & South
This new edition of the well-known undergraduate textbook (formerly Abnormal Psychology) incorporates a dimensional, HiTOP-aligned approach to psychopathology. Co-authors Kelsie Forbush and Susan South—both long-time HiTOP members—helped shape the content with HiTOP principles in mind, making it a good match for undergraduate courses focused on contemporary models of psychopathology. You can find out more information about the textbook here.
Other Resources
Other resources that may be useful include the Tools for Clinical Translation (e.g., the cross-walk between HiTOP elements and ICD codes here) and the free online workshop on Integrating HiTOP into Clinical Practice here.
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
