Chunk #74 — Psychopathology Description and Diagnosis — On the Comprehensiveness, Utility, and Parsimony of Using Homogeneous Constructs to Describe Psychopathology — The utility of disaggregation in psychopathology description
Samuel and Widiger (2006) reported evidence that clinicians found the FFM descriptions of psychopathology more useful, not just for describing all of a client's important personality problems, but also for communicating clearly with the client and others concerning the nature of his or her difficulties, for planning treatment, and for global personality description.
