Broadening our conceptual frameworks: Can we reintroduce relational strategies and implicit representational systems to the study of psychopathology?

In the context of current studies of parental depression, methodological and conceptual issues related to the study of relational behavior are highlighted in this commentary. These issues include the need to develop measures of relational behavior that are well-validated in high-risk samples, the need for methods that describe a variety of individual relational patterns rather than focusing primarily on sigle linear dimensions of behavior, and...