This course consists of two hours.

The first hour (Tuesday) will be a lecture on psychological networks. In the psychological network approach, mental disorders such as major depressive disorder are conceptualized as networks. The network approach thereby focuses on the symptom structure or the connections between symptoms instead of the severity (i.e., mean level) of a symptom. Time-series are needed to map network theory to network models in clinical practice, and currently, vector autoregressive models are represented as psychological networks. In this talk, I will discuss the reliability and validity of these psychological networks and their usefulness (or not) for clinical practice.

In the second meeting (Thursday), we will discuss this assignment that you will have made beforehand. It will involve theoretical questions, and also technical questions in R for those who are interested in more technical aspects of the models.