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. 2023 Aug 14;28(8):3171–3181. doi: 10.1038/s41380-023-02202-z

Fig. 3. Diagnostic models in youth mental health.

Fig. 3

Diagnostic Models in Youth Mental Health: (A) diagnostic staging model focused on symptoms and functioning. B A transdiagnostic, pluripotential staging model in which variable subthreshold symptoms may overlap but give rise to a range of end-stage disorders. CHR indicates clinical high risk. C Growth Charts: Detection of emerging mental disorders in the general population. Four proposed domains of assessment and their age sex- and age-adjusted norms are displayed. Once a threshold of divergence from normative trajectories is reached, individuals could be offered options of closer tracking, more comprehensive assessments, or preventative or clinical interventions. The latter would range from low-risk preventive interventions when such departures begin to manifest clinically (at earlier stages), or treatment of manifest abnormalities that are functionally relevant and/or lead to distress (at later stages). Panels (A, B) are adapted from [165].