Top Highlights

• In some ways, the current changes look like a return to the original agenda of behavior therapy (Davison, 2019).
• collections of signs (things you see) and symptoms (things people complain of)—will
• Evidence-based therapy is synonymous with this “protocols-for-syndromes” strategy.
• The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) approach of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) broke away from the hegemony of syndromal classification (Insel et al., 2010), perhaps in an attempt to create that “as yet unknown paradigm shift.”
• “What treatment, by whom, is most effective for this individual with that specific problem, under which set of circumstances, and how does it come about?”