Uncovering transdiagnostic socio-cognitive profiles by measuring the building blocks of mentalizing performance across mental disorders

Difficulties in interpersonal functioning and socio-cognitive deficits are frequent among patients with mental health disorders. However, these deficits are inconsistently reported, for 3 potential reasons: (1) A lack of transdiagnostic models of mentalizing marked by no attempt to define the basic processes underlying mentalizing, that is, the building blocks of mentalizing. (2) A lack of transdiagnostic tools to assess mentalizing marked by an overreliance upon self-report scales and single-score tasks. (3) A lack of studies that identify transdiagnostic socio-cognitive profiles within and across clinical populations to account for the heterogeneity among same-diagnosis patients. I will present our attempt to address these 3 issues: First, a novel multidimensional model that distinguishes the basic processes contributing to mentalizing. Second, a practical psychometric tool measuring the multiple processes that could be the building blocks of mentalizing. Third, preliminary empirical data supporting that we identified transdiagnostic socio-cognitive profiles within and across clinical populations.

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UCLouvainSSH/IACS - Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies

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Bukowski, H., Bigot, A., Amadieu, C., Leclercq, S., Pham, T., Saloppé, X., Tiberi, L., Nandrino, J.-L., Peeters, J.-C., & de Timary, P. (2022). Uncovering transdiagnostic socio-cognitive profiles by measuring the building blocks of mentalizing performance across mental disorders. 22nd meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Lille. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/256223