TY - JOUR AU - von Klipstein, Lino AU - Riese, Harriëtte AU - van der Veen, Date C. AU - Servaas, Michelle N. AU - Schoevers, Robert A. PY - 2020 DA - 2020/11/23 TI - Using person-specific networks in psychotherapy: challenges, limitations, and how we could use them anyway JO - BMC Medicine SP - 345 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - The complexity of psychopathology is evident from its multifactorial etiology and diversity of symptom profiles and hampers effective treatment. In psychotherapy, therapists approach this complexity by using case conceptualization. During this process, patients and therapists closely collaborate on a personalized working theory of the patient’s psychopathology. This is a challenging process and shows low reliability between therapists. With the experience sampling method (ESM), time-series data—valuable for case conceptualization—can be systematically gathered in a patient’s normal daily life. These data can be analyzed and visualized in person-specific networks (PSNs). PSNs may support case conceptualization by providing a schematic representation of association patterns between affective, cognitive, behavioral, and context variables. SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01818-0 DO - 10.1186/s12916-020-01818-0 ID - von Klipstein2020 ER -