Social & Contextual factors Workgroup

Scope

The Social & Contextual Factors Workgroup aims to investigate how extra-individual factors relate to psychopathology within the HiTOP model. Psychopathology is inherently framed as resultant from aberrations of intra-individual developmental processes. The goal of the workgroup is to understand how social, contextual, environmental, and other system-level factors influence psychopathology across multiple levels. Diverse, underrepresented, and epistemically excluded populations are created and maintained by various social processes. The focus of the workgroup, therefore, is on how these and other processes embedded in environmental structures and contexts impact psychopathology within the HiTOP model, particularly since minoritized populations are typically excluded from mainstream psychiatric research. 

Figure from Rodriguez-Seijas, C., Li, J. J., Balling, C., Brandes, C., Bernat, E., Boness, C. L., ... & Eaton, N. R. (2023). Diversity and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-13.

Chairs

Craig Rodriguez-Seijas & James Li

Rodriguez-Seijas (left), Li (right)

Members

Antonia Kaczkurkin
Ashley Watts
Cassandra Boness
Carter Funkhouser
David Cicero
Edward Bernat
Eunyoe Ro
Giorgia Michelini
Holly Levin-Aspenson
Jennifer L. Tackett
Joshua Oltmanns
Katherine Jonas
Kasey Stanton
Keanan Joyner
Kelsie Forbush
Lauren Rutter
Melody Altschuler
Michael J. Roche
Miriam K. Forbes
Monika Waszczuk
Nicholas R. Eaton
Robert Krueger
Sylia Wilson
Takakuni Suzuki
Timothy Allen

Workgroup Outputs

Rodriguez-Seijas, C., Li, J. J., Balling, C., Brandes, C., Bernat, E., Boness, C. L., Forbes, M. K., Forbush, K. T., Joyner, K. J.,Krueger, R. F., Levin-Aspenson, H. F., Michelini, G., Ro, E., Rutter, L., Stanton, K., Tackett, J. L., Waszczuk, M., & Eaton, N. R. (2023). Diversity and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-13.

Current Projects/Opportunities to get involved

For up-to-date information on current projects and/or ways to get involved with the DEI Workgroup, please contact Craig Rodriguez-Seijas (crseijas@umich.edu) and/or James Li (james.li@wisc.edu).