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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Bruno Klopfer Award, Society for Personality Assessment
  • 2013 - Joseph Zubin Award, Society for Research in Psychopathology

Overview

Thomas A. Widiger is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research primarily centers on psychology, with a substantial focus on clinical psychology. The subfields of their work include philosophy, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and social psychology.

Their publication record spans a broad range of topics, emphasizing personality disorders and psychopathology, mental health and psychiatry, personality traits and psychology, mental health research topics, psychotherapy techniques and applications, schizophrenia research and treatment, and psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, and sexual offending.

Widiger has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • The clinical characterization of the adult patient with depression aimed at personalization of management, 2020, World Psychiatry
  • Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): I. Psychosis superspectrum, 2020, World Psychiatry
  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) in psychiatric practice and research, 2022, Psychological Medicine
  • The distinction between symptoms and traits in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP), 2020, Journal of Personality
  • Development of Measures for the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Collaborative Scale Development Project, 2021, Assessment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Widiger include Aidan G.C. Wright, Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt, Joshua R. Oltmanns, Roman Kotov, and Joshua D. Miller.

The primary journals where Widiger's work appears often are:

  • Assessment
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Psychological Assessment
  • World Psychiatry

Throughout their career, Widiger has been recognized by professional organizations, having received the Bruno Klopfer Award from the Society for Personality Assessment in 2018 and the Joseph Zubin Award from the Society for Research in Psychopathology in 2013.

Best Publications

  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies

    Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson;Thomas M. Achenbach

  • A description of the DSM-III-R and DSM-IV personality disorders with the five-factor model of personality.

    Thomas A. Widiger;Timothy J. Trull;John F. Clarkin;Cynthia Sanderson

  • Plate tectonics in the classification of personality disorder: shifting to a dimensional model.

    Thomas A. Widiger;Timothy J. Trull

  • A meta-analytic review of the relationships between the five-factor model and DSM-IV-TR personality disorders: A facet level analysis

    Douglas B. Samuel;Thomas A. Widiger

  • The borderline diagnosis I: psychopathology, comorbidity, and personality structure.

    Andrew E Skodol;John G Gunderson;John G Gunderson;Bruce Pfohl;Thomas A Widiger

  • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

    Thomas A. Widiger

  • DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES OR DIMENSIONS? A QUESTION FOR THE DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS

    T A Widiger;D B Samuel

  • Alternative dimensional models of personality disorder: finding a common ground.

    Thomas A. Widiger;Erik Simonsen

  • Diagnostic categories or dimensions? A question for the Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders--fifth edition.

    Thomas A. Widiger;Douglas B. Samuel

  • Using the five-factor model to represent the DSM-IV personality disorders: an expert consensus approach.

    Donald R. Lynam;Thomas A. Widiger

  • Consensus criteria for traumatic grief: A preliminary empirical test

    Holly G. Prigerson;M. K. Shear;S. C. Jacobs;C. F. Reynolds

  • Personality disorders as extreme variants of common personality dimensions: can the Five-Factor Model adequately represent psychopathy?

    Joshua D. Miller;Donald R. Lyman;Thomas A. Widiger;Carl Leukefeld

  • Toward DSM—V and the classification of psychopathology.

    Thomas A. Widiger;Lee Anna Clark

  • Personality and psychopathology

    Thomas A. Widiger

  • DSM-IV sourcebook

    Thomas A. Widiger

  • Personality and personality disorders.

    Thomas A. Widiger;Paul T. Costa Jr.;Paul T. Costa Jr.

  • Personality disorders and the five-factor model of personality, 2nd ed.

    Paul T. Costa Jr.;Thomas A. Widiger

  • The borderline diagnosis II: biology, genetics, and clinical course

    Andrew E Skodol;Larry J Siever;W.John Livesley;John G Gunderson

  • Epidemiology of Borderline Personality Disorder

    Thomas A. Widiger;Myrna M. Weissman

  • Neuroticism is a fundamental domain of personality with enormous public health implications.

    Thomas A. Widiger;Joshua R. Oltmanns

  • Personality disorders as extreme variants of common personality dimensions : Can the Five-Factor Model adequately represent psychopathy? : Personality dimensions and disorders

    Joshua D. Miller;Donald R. Lynam;Thomas A. Widiger;Carl Leukefeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua D. Miller
Joshua D. Miller University of Georgia
Donald R. Lynam
Donald R. Lynam Purdue University West Lafayette
Douglas B. Samuel
Douglas B. Samuel Purdue University West Lafayette
Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt
Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt Oklahoma State University
Timothy J. Trull
Timothy J. Trull University of Missouri
Paul T. Costa
Paul T. Costa Duke University
Robert F. Krueger
Robert F. Krueger University of Minnesota
David Watson
David Watson University of Notre Dame
Aidan G. C. Wright
Aidan G. C. Wright University of Pittsburgh
Lee Anna Clark
Lee Anna Clark University of Notre Dame

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