['What exactly are we talking about?' The importance of conceptual competence in psychiatry].

Authors

D W Strijbos, R Dings, S E De Haan, A Ralston

Published in

Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie. Volume 68. Issue 8. Pages 459-462.

Abstract

Although psychiatrists and other mental health care professionals are provided with numerous conceptual frameworks during their training and continuing professional education, little attention has been paid to the skill of competently navigating situations in which these frameworks are experienced as inadequate.
To introduce and explicate the phenomenon of conceptual distress and to define conceptual competence as the capacity to engage constructively with it.
Conceptual analysis and literature review.
Conceptual distress is a significant yet underexplored phenomenon in psychiatric practice. Addressing it adequately requires conceptual competence.
Conceptual competence constitutes an essential professional skill and warrants greater attention, both in training and in continuing professional development.

PMID:
42978503
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 04 Nov 2026.

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