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Clinical Psychology Program in the Department of Psychology at UH

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Psychopathology Lab
Department of Psychology
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Houston, TX 77204-5022
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Publications


Peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters:

In press

  • *​​Boone, K., Choi-Kain, L.W., Sharp C. (in press). The Relevance of Generalist Approaches for Earlier Intervention for Personality Disorder. American Journal of Psychotherapy.

  • *Kerr, S., *Penner, F., Ilagan, G., Choi-Kain, L., Sharp, C. (in press). Maternal interpersonal problems and attachment security in adolescent offspring. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation. [IF: 4.178]
  • Vanwoerden, S., Chandler, J., *Cano, K., Mehta, P., Pilkonis, P. A., & Sharp, C. (in press) Sampling methods in personality disorder research: Some data and recommendations. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment.
  • Venta, A., *McLaren, R., Sharp, C., +*Abate, A., +*Allman, M., +*Cervantes, B., +*Kerr, S., +*Hernandez Ortiz, J., +*Sumlin, E., +*Walker, J., & +*Wall, K. (in press). Does coding internal working models of attachment have to be so hard? Child Psychiatry and Human Development.
  • Cottin, M., Blum, K., Konjufca, J., Quvedo, Y., Kaaya, S., Behn, A., Schmeck, K., Sharp, C., & Zimmerman, R. (in press). Digital use of standardised assessment tools for children and adolescents: Can available paper-based questionnaires be used free of charge in electronic format? BMC Psychiatry.
  • Ellison, W., Huprich, S., Berliner, A.B., Goodman, M., *Kerr, S., Levy, K., Nelson, S., Sharp, C. (in press). Attitudes, Clinical Practices, and Perceived Advocacy Needs of Professionals with Interests in Personality Disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders. [IF: 3.767]
  • Sekowski, M., Gambin, M., *Sumlin, E., & Sharp, C. (in press). Associations between Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder and Suicidality in Inpatient Adolescents: The Key Significance of Identity Disturbances. Psychiatry Research. [IF: 3.222]
  • *Penner, F., Bowersox, L., *Leavitt, J., & Sharp, C. (in press). Evaluating intellectual humility as a protective factor for maladaptive personality traits. Nordic Psychology.
  • Gbadegesin, F., Marais, L, Sharp, C., Cloete, J., Lenka, M., & Rani, K. (in press). Housing, home and children’s socioemotional health: conceptual ideas and empirical evidence from South Africa. Housing, Theory and Society. [IF: 3.779]
  • Marais, L., Brown, J., Sharp, C., Sales, J., Lenka, M., Rani, K., & Cloete, J. (in press). Youth-centred clinics: The voices of adolescent Sesotho-speaking girls from Mangaung, South Africa.
  • Sharp, C, Venta, A, & *McLaren, V. (in press). Interpersonal trust in adolescents with borderline personality disorder: Comparisons with healthy and psychiatric controls. Journal of Personality Disorders. [IF: 3.767]
  • Sharp, C., *Kerr, S., & Barkauskienė, R. (in press). The incremental utility of maladaptive self and identity functioning over general functioning for borderline personality disorder features in adolescents. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment. [IF: 4.669]
  • Sharp, C., & Vanwoerden, S. (in press). Personality lives in the intersubjective space between people: Commentary on Miskewicz et al. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment. [IF: 4.669]
  • *Rogers, A. H., Neighbors, C., Sharp, C., Giordano, T. P., Woods, S. P., & Zvolensky, M. J. (in press). The relationship between sex-related alcohol expectancies and hazardous drinking among persons with HIV disease. AIDS Care. [IF: 2.191]
  • *Muñoz, C., *Abate, A., Sharp, C., & Venta, A. (in press). Confirmatory Factor Analysis and convergent validity of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory in clinical and forensic samples.​ Psychiatry Research, 275, 189-195. [IF: 2.670]
  • Coskun F, Akca OF, Bilgic A, & Sharp C. (in press). The validity and reliability of borderline personality features scale for children-short form in Turkish adolescents. Turkish Journal of Psychiatry.
  • Schramm, A., Venta, A., Fairchild, A., & Sharp, C. (in press). Decreases in experiential avoidance predict PTSD symptom improvement and remission in inpatient adolescents. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • Hill, R.M., Mellick, W., Alvis, L., Dodd, C.G., Do, C., Buitron, V., Sharp, C., Pettit, J.W., & Kaplow, J.B. (in press). Performance of the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire in child and adolescent clinical samples: Confirmatory factor analyses and evaluation of measurement invariance. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • *Wall, K., *Vanwoerden, S., *Penner, F., Patriquin, M., Alfano, C., & Sharp, C. (in press). Adolescent sleep disturbance, emotion regulation and borderline features in an inpatient setting. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

2024

  • *Gecha, T., McLaren, V., Sharp, C. (2024). Clinical Cut-off Scores for the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children to Differentiate Among Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder, Other Psychopathology, and No Psychopathology. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation.

  • *Balzen, K., *Kerr, S., *Gecha, T., Hustebaut, J., Berghuis, H., Sharp, C. (2024). First psychometric evaluation of the English version of the Semi-Structured Interview for Personality Functioning (STiP-5.1). Journal of Personality Assessment.

  • *Gecha, T., Glass, I., Frankenburg, F., Sharp, C., Zanarini, M. (2024). Experiential Avoidance in Participants with Borderline Personality Disorder and Other Personality Disorders. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation.

  • *Cervantes, B.R., *Allman, M., Walton, Q.L., Jouriles, E.N., & Sharp, C. (2024). Considerations in cultural adaptation of parent-child interventions for African American mothers and children exposed to intimate partner violence. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1295202.

  • *Kerr, S., *Cervantes, B.R., Stepp, S., & Sharp, C. (2024). Maternal borderline personality disorder severity and parenting behaviors during conflict discussions with adolescent offspring. Journal of Personality Disorders, 38(3), 284-300.

  • *Balzen, K.M. & Sharp, C. (2024). The Contribution of Mentalization-Based Theory and Practice for Understanding and Treating Self-Injurious Behavior in Young People. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy.

  • *Rucker, J., Berry, B., & Sharp, C. (2024). Assessing Criterion A of the alternative Model for Personality Disorders: The potential of performance-based personality measures. Journal of Personality Disorders

  • Twitty, T.D., Hitch, A.E., Marais, L., Sales, J.M., Sharp, C., Cloete, J., Lenka, M., Rani, K., Gause, N.K., & Brown, J.L. (2024). Pregnancy and STI/HIV Prevention Intervention Needs of South African Adolescent Girls: Findings from a Cultural Consensus Modeling Qualitative Study. Culture, Health and Sexuality.

  • Babinski, D.E., Kujawa, A., Pegg, S., Leslie, J. M., Pothoven, C. Waschbusch, D. A., & Sharp, C. (2024). Social and Monetary Processing in Youth with Early Emerging Personality Pathology: An RDoC-Informed Study. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.

  • *Allman, M., Nava, A., *Asim, N., Brashear, B., Walton, Q.L., McFarlane, J., & Sharp, C. (2024). Using the Colaizzi Method to Explore Intimate Partner Violence Caseworkers’ Subjective Experience: Pathways to Intimate Partner Violence Work and What Keeps Them Going. Violence against women, 30(1). 174-188.

  • Taubner, S., & Sharp, C. (2024). Mentale FlexibilitĂ€t durch soziales implizites Lernen - ein Metamodell fĂŒr VerĂ€nderungsprozesse in der Psychotherapie. Die Psychoterapie. (English title: Mental flexibility through implicit social learning – a meta-model for change mechanisms in psychotherapy)

  • Zandpour, M., Lind, M., Sharp, C., Hasani, J., & Borelli, J.L. (2024). Attachment-based Mentalizing Profiles in Iranian Children: A Thematic Analysis. Children.

  • Picou, P., Kemp, E.C., Ferreira, R., Sharp, C., & Hill, R. (2024). Familism Moderates the Association Between Parent-Child Conflict, Interpersonal Needs, and Suicidal Ideation among Adolescents. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

  • *Allman, M., *Song, H., Venta, A., Serekoane, M., Pienaar, M., Lenka, M., Marais, K., Cloete, J., Marais, L., & Sharp, C. (2024). In Their Own Words: Linguistic Analysis of Interviews with Sesotho Mothers on Their Child’s First Thousand Days. Child Psychiatry and Human Development.

2023

  • *Allman, M., Kulesz, P., Marais, L., & Sharp, C. (2023). Impact of the Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers on Mentalizing in Orphans and Vulnerable Children in South Africa. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 22(4), 386-398.
  • Gambin, M., Wnuk, A., Oleksy, T., Kubicka, K., Sękowski, M., WoĆșniak-Prus, M., Sharp, C., & Bonanno, G. (2023). Depressive and anxiety symptom trajectories in Polish adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and the outbreak of war in Ukraine: uncovering the role of family relations. Development and Psychopthology.
  • *Balzen, K. M., *Blacutt, M., Lind, M., *Penner, F., & Sharp, C. (2023). Awareness of Narrative Identity Questionnaire (ANIQ) in adolescents: Psychometric evaluation and association with features of personality disorder. Journal of Personality Assessement. [IF = 3.5]
  • *Kerr, S., *Allman, M., Shohet, C., Stepp, S., Sharp, C. (2023). Psychometric properties of the Observing Mediational Interactions (OMI) coding system during mother-adolescent conflict discussions. Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology. [IF = 1.4]
  • Asgarizadeh, A., Sharp, C., & Ghanbari, S. (2023). Shame-Coping Clusters: Comparisons Regarding Attachment Insecurities, Mentalizing Deficits, and Personality Pathology, Controlling for General Emotion Dysregulation. Borderline Personality Disorder/Emotion dysregulation.
  • *Obi-Obasi O, *Cano K & Sharp C. (2023). Specificity of insecure attachment in adolescents with BPD: Using a group comparison with psychotic and healthy controls. Journal of Personality Disorders.
  • *Sumlin, E., Hill, R., Busby, D., Brown, J., & Sharp, C. (2023). Quantifying the representation of Black adolescents in suicide intervention research. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.
  • Hill, R.M., Busby, D., Brown, J.L., *Sumlin, E., *Fernandez, E., & Sharp, C. (2023). Cultural Consensus Modeling to Identify Culturally Relevant Reasons for and Against Suicide among Black Adolescents. Suicide and Life-threatening Behaviors.
  • Sharp, C., Kaplan, R., & Strauman, T. (2023). The use of ontologies to accelerate the behavioral sciences: Promises and challenges. Current Directions is Psychological Science.
  • Calvo, N., Andion, O., Vidal, R., Sharp, C., Duque, J.D., Lalanza, J.F., Ramos-Quiroga, J. & Ferrer, M. (2023). Discrimination of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Adolescents: Spanish Version of the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children-11 Self Report. Borderline Personality Disoder/Emotion dysregulation.
  • Carreiras, D., Cunha, M., Sharp, C., & Castilho, P. (2023). The Clinical Interview for Borderline Personality Disorder for Adolescents (CI-BOR-A): Development, Acceptability and Expert Panel Evaluation. Personality and Mental Health.
  • Hill, J., Fonagy, P., Osel, T., Dziobek, I., & Sharp, C. (2023). Social domain organization of hypermentalizing in adolescents, and impaired organization associated with Borderline Personality Disorder features. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(10), 1470-1479. [IF: 8.265]
  • *Cervantes, B.R., *Kerr, S., *Vanwoerden, S., & Sharp, C. (2023). Operationalizing intimacy and identity aspects of personality functioning in relation to personality disorder in adolescents. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1153274. [IF: 5.435].
  • Zandpour , M., Hasani, J., Russo, L.N., Sharp, C., Lind, M., Borrelli, J.L. (2023). Mentalization in Typically and Atypically Developing Iranian Children and its Associations with Age, Gender, and Externalizing/Internalizing Symptoms. Children.
  • Pienaar, M., Marais, L., Serekoane, M., Marais, K., Cloete, J., & Sharp, C. (2023). “Being a mother is not child’s play”: Narratives from mothers in a low-resource setting in South Africa. Health Expectations. [IF: 3.22]
  • Bo, S., Sharp, C., Lind, M., Simonsen, S., & Bateman, A. (2023). Mentalizing mediates the relationship between psychopathy and premeditated criminal offending in schizophrenia: a 6-year follow-up study. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. [IF: 2.361]
  • *Cano, K., & Sharp, C. (2023). A consumer perspective on personality diagnostic systems: One-size-does-not-fit-all. Journal of Personality Disorders. [IF: 3.552]
  • Ellison, W., Huprich, S., Berliner, A.B., Goodman, M., *Kerr, S., Levy, K., Nelson, S., Sharp, C. (2023). Attitudes, Clinical Practices, and Perceived Advocacy Needs of Professionals with Interests in Personality Disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 37(1), 1-15. [IF: 3.552]
  • Sharp, C., & *Cervantes, B.R. (2023). Maladaptive self- and interpersonal functioning increments general psychiatric severity in the association with adolescent personality pathology. Children, 10(1), 120. [IF: 3.328]
  • Vanwoerden, S., Chandler, J., *Cano, K., Mehta, P., Pilkonis, P. A., & Sharp, C. (2023) Sampling methods in personality disorder research: Some data and recommendations. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment, 4(1), 19–28.
  • Sharp, C., & Oldham, J. (2023). The nature and assessment of personality pathology and diagnosis. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 76(1), 3-8.
  • Sharp, C., & *Cervantes, B.R. (2023). Maladaptive self- and interpersonal functioning increments general psychiatric severity in the association with adolescent personality pathology. Children, 10(1), 120.
  • Vanwoerden, S., Chandler, J., *Cano, K., Mehta, P., Pilkonis, P. A., & Sharp, C. (2023) Sampling methods in personality disorder research: Some data and recommendations. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment.
  • Ellison, W., Huprich, S., Berliner, A.B., Goodman, M., *Kerr, S., Levy, K., Nelson, S., Sharp, C. (2023). Attitudes, Clinical Practices, and Perceived Advocacy Needs of Professionals with Interests in Personality Disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders. [IF: 3.767]
  • *Penner, F., Bowersox, L., *Leavitt, J., & Sharp, C. (2023). Evaluating intellectual humility as a protective factor for maladaptive personality traits. Nordic Psychology.
  • Sharp, C, Venta, A, & *McLaren, V. (2023). Interpersonal trust in adolescents with borderline personality disorder: Comparisons with healthy and psychiatric controls. Journal of Personality Disorders. [IF: 3.767]

2022

  • Ballespi, S., Nonweiler, J., Sharp, C., Vives, J., Barrantes-Vidal, N. (2022). Self- but not other-mentalizing moderates the association between BPD symptoms and somatic complaints in adolescents from general population. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 95(4):905-920. [IF: 3.915]
  • *Skabeikytė-Norkienė, G., Kulesz, P., Barkauskienė, R., & Sharp, C. (2022). Personality pathology in adolescence: relationship quality with parents and peers as predictors of the level of personality functioning. Borderline Personality Disorder/Emotion Dysregulation, 9(31).
  • *Penner, F., *Cano, K., McGill, C., Vanwoerden, S., & Sharp, C. (2022). Psychometric properties of the parent and youth versions of the Inadequate Boundaries Questionnaire in community and clinical samples of adolescents. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. [IF: 3.195]
  • *Penner, F., Steinberg, L., & Sharp, C. (2022). The development and validation of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-8: Providing respondents with a uniform context that elicits thinking about situations requiring emotion regulation. Journal of Personality Assessment. [IF: 3.013]
  • Sharp, C., *McLaren, V., *Vanwoerden, S., *Hernandez-Ortiz, J., Schmeck, K., Birkhoelzer, M., & Goth, K. (2022). The Assessment of Identity Development in Adolescence (AIDA) questionnaire: First psychometric evaluation in two North American samples of young people. Journal of Personality Assessment, 19, 1-12 . [IF: 3.013]
  • *Kerr, S., *McLaren, V., *Cano, K., *Vanwoerden, S., Goth, K., Sharp, C. (2022). Levels of Personality Functioning Questionnaire 12-18 (LoPF-Q 12-18): Factor structure, validity, and clinical cut-offs. [IF: 4.282]
  • Chanen, A., Sharp, C., Nicol, K., & Kaess, M. (2022). Early intervention for personality disorder. American Psychiatric Association
  • *Allman, M., *Penner, F., *Hernandez Ortiz, J., Marais, L., Rani, K., Lenka, M., Cloete, J., & Sharp, C. (2022). Hope and Mental Health Problems among Orphans and Vulnerable Children in South Africa. AIDS Care, 15, 1-7 . [IF: 2.752]
  • *Kerr, S., *Penner, F., Ilagan, G., Choi-Kain, L., Sharp, C. (2022). Maternal interpersonal problems and attachment security in adolescent offspring. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation. [IF: 4.178]
  • Venta, A., *McLaren, R., Sharp, C., *Abate, A., *Allman, M., *Cervantes, B., *Kerr, S., *Hernandez Ortiz, J., *Sumlin, E., *Walker, J., & *Wall, K. (2022). Does coding internal working models of attachment have to be so hard? Child Psychiatry and Human Development.
  • Cottin, M., Blum, K., Konjufca, J., Quvedo, Y., Kaaya, S., Behn, A., Schmeck, K., Sharp, C., & Zimmerman, R. (2022). Digital use of standardised assessment tools for children and adolescents: Can available paper-based questionnaires be used free of charge in electronic format? BMC Psychiatry.
  • Sekowski, M., Gambin, M., *Sumlin, E., & Sharp, C. (2022). Associations between Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder and Suicidality in Inpatient Adolescents: The Key Significance of Identity Disturbances. Psychiatry Research. [IF: 3.222]
  • Gbadegesin, F., Marais, L, Sharp, C., Cloete, J., Lenka, M., & Rani, K. (2022). Housing, home and children’s socioemotional health: conceptual ideas and empirical evidence from South Africa. Housing, Theory and Society. [IF: 3.779]
  • Marais, L., Brown, J., Sharp, C., Sales, J., Lenka, M., Rani, K., & Cloete, J. (2022). Youth-centred clinics: The voices of adolescent Sesotho-speaking girls from Mangaung, South Africa. Sage Open, 12(2).
  • Sharp, C., *Kerr, S., & Barkauskienė, R. (2022). The incremental utility of maladaptive self and identity functioning over general functioning for borderline personality disorder features in adolescents. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment. [IF: 4.669]
  • Sharp, C., & Vanwoerden, S. (2022). Personality lives in the intersubjective space between people: Commentary on Miskewicz et al. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment. [IF: 4.669]
  • Coskun F, Akca OF, Bilgic A, & Sharp C. (2022). The validity and reliability of borderline personality features scale for children-short form in Turkish adolescents. Turkish Journal of Psychiatry.
  • *Wall, K., *Vanwoerden, S., *Penner, F., Patriquin, M., Alfano, C., & Sharp, C. (2022). Adolescent sleep disturbance, emotion regulation and borderline features in an inpatient setting. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
  • Vanwoerden, S., *McLaren, V., Stepp, S. D., & Sharp, C. (2022). Are we thinking about the same disorder? A trifactor model approach to understand parents’ and their adolescents’ reports of borderline personality pathology. Journal of Personality Assessment, 1-12. [IF: 3.013]
  • Peters, JR., Crowe, M.L., Morgan, T., Zimmerman, M., Sharp, C., Grilo, C.M., Sanislow, C.A., Shea, M.T., Zanarini, M., McGlashan, T.H., Morey, L.C., Skodol, A.E., & Yen, S. (2022). Borderline personality disorder symptom networks across adolescent and adult clinical samples: examining symptom centrality and replicability. Psychological Medicine, 1-8. [IF: 7.723]
  • WoĆșniak-Prus, M., Gambin, M., Cudo, A., & Sharp, C. (2022). Investigation of the factor structure of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ-8): One or two dimensions? Journal of Personality Assessment, 1-11. [IF: 3.013]
  • *McLaren, V., Hopwood, C., Gallagher, M., & Sharp, C. (2022). The relative strength of the relationship between hypermentalizing and borderline personality disorder: A meta-analytic review. American Journal of Psychotherapy. [IF: 065]
  • Lind, M., Sharp, C., & Dunlop, W. (2022). Why, How, and When to Integrate Narrative Identity Within Dimensional Approaches to Personality Disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 1-22. [IF: 3.767]

2021

  • *Rogers, A. H., Neighbors, C., Sharp, C., Giordano, T. P., Woods, S. P., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2021). The relationship between sex-related alcohol expectancies and hazardous drinking among persons with HIV disease. AIDS Care. [IF: 2.191]
  • Bohus, M., Stoffers-Winterling, J. §, Sharp, C., Krause-Utz, A., Schmahl, C., & Lieb, K. (2021). Borderline personality disorder. Lancet, 398, 1528-1540. §Joint first authors [IF: 79.321]
  • Sharp, C.§, Steinberg, L.§, *McLaren, V., *Weir, S., *Ha, C., & Fonagy, P. (2021). Refinement of the Reflective Function Questionnaire for Youth (RFQY) using Item Response Theory. §Joint first authors. [IF: 5.000]
  • Lind, M., Vanwoerden, S., Bo, S., & Sharp, C. (2021). Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescence: The role of Narrative Identity in the Intrapsychic Reasoning System. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. [IF: 4.669]
  • Ball Cooper, E., Anderson, J.L., Sharp, C., Langley, H.A., & Venta, A. (2021). Attachment, Mentalization, and Criterion B of the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD). Borderline Personality Disorders/Emotion Dysregulation. 8(1), 23. [IF: 4.178]
  • Prevolnik-Rupel, V., Jagger, B., Fialho, L.S., Chadderton, L., Gintner, T., Arntz, A., Baltzersen, A., Blazdell, J., van Busschbach, J., Cencelli, M., Chanen, A., Delvaux, C., van Gorp, F., Langford, L., McKenna, B., Moran, P., Pacheco, K., Sharp, C., Wang, W., Wright, K., & Crawford, M.J. (2021). Standard Set of Patient-Reported Outcomes for Personality Disorder. Quality of Life Research, 30, 3485-3500. doi.org/10.1007/s11136-021-02870-w [IF: 4.072]
  • Vanwoerden, S., Franssens, R., Sharp, C., & De Clercq, B. (2021). The development of Criterion A: The relevance of childhood social functioning for young adult daily self-functioning. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. [IF: 3.232]
  • CortĂ©s-GarcĂ­a, L., Akça, Ö. F., *Wall, K., & Sharp, C. (2021) Exploring mentalizing in adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa and Borderline Personality Disorder: A comparative study of psychiatric inpatients and healthy controls. Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, 9, 16-26. [ICV: 100.00] [JCI: 0.15]
  • Akça, O.F., *Wall, K., & Sharp, C. (2021). Divergent mentalization types in adolescent borderline personality disorder and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 75(7), 479-486. [IF: 2.335]
  • BallespĂ­, S., Vives, J., Sharp, C., Chanes, L., & Barrantes-Vidal, N. (2021). Self and other mentalizing and dimensions of mental health: Association to types of symptoms, functioning and well-being. Frontiers in Psychology. [IF: 2.990]
  • JĂžrgensen, M., Bo, S., Vestergaard, M., StorebĂž, O., Sharp, C., & Simonsen, E. (2021). Predictors of dropout among adolescents with borderline personality disorder attending Mentalization-based group treatment. Psychotherapy Research, 31(7), 950-961. [IF: 4.124]
  • *Kerr, S., *Penner, F., Sharp, C. (2021). Interpersonal problems in parents and adolescent borderline personality disorder features. Journal of Personality Disorders, 35, 1-20. [IF: 3.767]
  • *Wall, K., *Kerr, S., *Nguyen, M., & Sharp, C. (2021). The relation between measures of explicit shame and borderline personality features in adolescent inpatients. Journal of Affective Disorders, 282, 458-464. [IF: 4.839]
  • *Vanwoerden, S., *Penner, F., *Pearson, C., Bick, J., Yoshida, H., & Sharp, C. (2021). Testing the link between mothers’ general reflective function capacity and adolescent borderline personality features: Perceived parenting behaviors as a potential mechanism. Journal of Personality Disorders, 35, 56-73. [IF: 3.767]
  • *CortĂ©s-GarcĂ­a, L., *McLaren, V., *Vanwoerden, S., & Sharp, C. (2021). Attachment, Mentalizing and Eating Disorder Symptoms in Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients and Healthy Controls: A Test of a Mediational Model. Eating and Weight Disorders – Studies on anorexia, bulimia and obesity, 26, 1159-1168. [IF: 4.462]
  • *Kerr, S., Hudenko, W., *Godfrey, D., Lundgren, S., O’Malley, J., & Sharp, C. (2021). Validation of the Emotional Tone Index for Families (ETIF): A multi-informant measure of emotional closeness. Family Process, 60(3), 935-949. [IF: 3.532].
  • Sharp, C. & *Wall, K. (2021). DSM-5 Level of Personality Functioning: Refocusing personality disorder on what it means to be human. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 17, 313-337. [IF: 13.692].
  • Sekowski, M., Gambin, M., & Sharp, C. (2021). The relations between identity disturbances, borderline features, internalizing disorders and suicidal ideation in inpatient adolescents. Journal of Personality Disorders . [IF: 3.796]
  • Sharp, C., Kulesz, P., Marais, L., Shohet, C., Rani, K., Lenka, M., Cloete, J., *Vanwoerden, S., Givon, D., & Boivin, M. (2021). Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers to improve mental health outcomes in orphaned and vulnerable children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 49(4), 545-557. [IF: 3.656].
  • Sharp, C., *Vanwoerden, S., Gallagher, M., Williams, L., & Newlin, L. (2021). The course of borderline psychopathology in adolescents with complex mental health problems: An 18 month longitudinal follow-up study. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (formerly Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology), 49(4), 545-557. [F: 3.875]
  • *Penner, F., *Hernandez Ortiz, J., & Sharp, C. (2021). Change in Youth Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Majority Hispanic/Latinx U.S. Sample. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. [IF: 6.936]
  • Sharp, C. (2021). Enhancing the capacity for optimal social and personality function through the Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers: A case illustration. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 77, 1162–1175
  • *Hatkevich, C., *Sumlin, E., & Sharp, C. (2021). Examining associations between child abuse and neglect experiences with emotion regulation difficulties indicative of adolescent suicidal ideation risk. Frontiers in Psychiatry, . [IF: 3.532]
  • Sharp, C., Chanen, A., & Cavelti, M. (in press). Personality challenges in young people: From description to action. Current Opinion in Psychology. [IF: 4.162]

2020

  • Hill, R.M., Mellick, W., Alvis, L., Dodd, C.G., Do, C., Buitron, V., Sharp, C., Pettit, J.W., & Kaplow, J.B. (2020). Performance of the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire in child and adolescent clinical samples: Confirmatory factor analyses and evaluation of measurement invariance. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • Miles, S. R., Kent, T. A., Stanley, M., Thompson, K. E., Sharp, C., Niles, B. L., Young-McCaughan, S., Mintz, J., Roache, J. D., Litz, B. T., Hale, W. J., Stanford, M. S, Keane, T. M., & Peterson, A. L., for the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD. (2020). Manage Emotions to Reduce Aggression: A pilot study of a brief treatment to help veterans reduce impulsive aggression. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. Advance online publication. .
  • Sekowski, M., Gambin, M., Cudo, A., Wozniak-Prus, M., *Penner, F., Fonagy, P., & Sharp, C. (2020). The relations between childhood maltreatment, shame, guilt, depression and suicidal ideation in inpatient adolescents. Journal of Affective Disorders, 276, 667–677.
  • Sharp, C. (2020). Adolescent personality pathology and the AMPD: Self development as nexus. Psychopathology, 53, 198-204. DOI: 10.1159/000507588 [IF: 2.123]
  • *Sumlin, E., *Wall, K., & Sharp, C. (2020). The moderating role of dissociation in the relation between borderline features and factors of self-injury in adolescents. Personality and Mental Health, 14(2), 215-226. [IF: 1.832]
  • Carreiras, D., Loureiro, M., Cunha, M., Sharp, C., & Castilho, P. (2020). Validation of the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFS-C) and for Parents (BPFS-P) for the Portuguese Population. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
  • Wall, K., *Kerr, S., & Sharp, C. (2020). Barriers to care for adolescents with borderline personality disorder. Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Sekowski, M., Cudo, A., Qozniak-Prus, M., *Penner, F., Fonagy, P., & Sharp, C. (in press). The relations between childhood maltreatment, shame, guilt, depression and suicidal ideation in inpatient adolescents. Journal of Affective Disorders.

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  • Brown, J.L., Marais, L., Sharp, C., Cloete, J., Lenka, M., Rani, K., Marime, P., Ditlhare, I., Moqolo, R., Peterson, D., & Sales, J.M. (2020). Cultural consensus modelling to understand South African girls’ attitudes, awareness, and uptake of dual protection strategies. Journal of Adolescent Health

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  • Alfano, C., Bower, J, Harvey, A., Beidel, D.; Sharp, C., Palmer, C. (2020). Sleep Restriction Alters Children’s Positive Emotional Responses but Effects are Moderated by Anxiety. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

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  • Penner, F., Sharp, C., Marais, L., Shohet, C., Givon, D., & Boivin, M. (2020). Community-based caregiver and family interventions to support the mental health of orphans and vulnerable children: Review and future directions. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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  • Froidevaux, N.M., Metcalf, S., Pettit, C., *Penner, F., Sharp, C., Borelli, J.S. (2020). The links between adversity and dating violence among adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric treatment: Parental validation as a candidate protective factor. Journal of Interpersonal Violence

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  • Akça, Ö. F., *Wall, K., & Sharp, C. (2020) Borderline Personality Disorder and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Overlap and Differences in a Clinical Setting. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation.
  • Sharp, C., *Vanwoerden, S., Jouriles, E.N., *Godfrey, A., Babcock, J., *McLaren, V., McFarlane, J., Brashear, B., Walton, Q., & Temple, J. (2020). Exposure to interparental intimate partner violence and the development of borderline features in adolescents. Child Abuse and Neglect
  • Gambin, M., WoĆșniak-Prus, Konecka, A., & Sharp, C. (2020). Relations between attachment to mother and father, mentalizing abilities and emotion regulation in adolescents. European Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • Sharp, C., Shohet, C., Givon, D., *Penner, F., Marais, L., & Fonagy, P. (2020). Learning to mentalize: A mediational approach for caregivers and therapists. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

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  • Beck, E., Bo, S., Poulsgaard JĂžrgensen, M., Gondan, M., Poulsen, S., StorebĂž , J., Andersen, C.F., Folmo, E., Sharp, C., Pedersen, J., & Simonsen, E. (2020). Mentalization-based Therapy in Groups for Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61(5), 594-604.
  • Winsper, C., Wolke, D., Scott, J., Sharp, C., Thompson, A., Marwaha, S. (2020). Psychopathological Outcomes of Adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Symptoms. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry.
  • Hutsebaut, J., Debanne, M., & Sharp, C. (2020). Designing a range of mentalizing interventions for young people using a clinical staging approach to borderline pathology. Borderline Personality Disorder/Emotion Dysregulation

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  • *Penner, F., *McLaren, V., *Leavitt, J., Akca, O. F., & Sharp, C. (2020). Implicit and explicit mentalizing deficits in adolescent inpatients: Specificity and incremental value of borderline pathology. Journal of Personality Disorders
  • Akca, O.F., Bilgic, A., Karagoz, H., Cikili, Y., Kocak, F., & Sharp, C. (2020). Social media use and personality disorders. Anatolian Journal of Psychiatry

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  • Gambin, M., Wozniak-Prus, M., & Sharp, C. (2020). Executive functions and attachment to mother and father in inpatient female and male adolescents. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17(1), 1–18

2019

  • *Muñoz, C., *Abate, A., Sharp, C., & Venta, A. (2019). Factor structure and clinical utility of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory in an inpatient sample. Psychiatry Research, 275, 189-195. [IF: 2.670] “
  • *Mellick, W., Sharp, C., & *Sumlin, E. (2019). Trust and general risk-taking in externalizing adolescent inpatients versus non-externalizing psychiatric controls. Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 7, 92-96.
  • *Mellick, W., Kroska, E.B., Calarge, C., Sharp, C., & Dindo. L. (2019). Experiential avoidance predicts persistence of major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder in late adolescence. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 80(6), 18m12265 [IF: 5.498] 
  • Mulay, A., Waugh, M., Filauer, J.P., Bender, D., Bram, A., Cain, N., Caligor, W., Forbes, M., Goodrich, L., Kamphuis, J., Keeley, J., Krueger, R., Kurtz, J., Jacobsson, P., Lewis, K., Rossi, G., Ridenour, J., Roche, M., Sellbom, M., Sharp, C., & Skodol, A. (2019). Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis in a New Key. Borderline Personality Disorder/Emotion Dysregulation, 6, 
  • Orme, W., *Bowersox, L., *Vanwoerden, S., Fonagy, P., Sharp, C. (2019). The Relation Between Epistemic Trust and Borderline Pathology in an Adolescent Inpatient Sample. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 6(13), 1-9

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  • Penner, F., *Vanwoerden, S., & Borelli, J. L. & Sharp, C. (2019). Discrepancies in mother-adolescent reports of parenting practices in a psychiatric sample: Associations with age, psychopathology, and attachment. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology,48, 343-360

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  • Rider, N., Berg, D., Keo-Meier, C., Sharp, C., Olson-Kennedy, J., Prado, S., Calvetti, S., & Tran, K. (2019). Using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) with Transgender/Gender Nonconforming Children and Adolescents. Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology, 7(3), 291–301 
  • Ballespi, S., Vives, J., Tobar, A., Barrantes-Vidal, N., & Sharp, C. (2019). Hypermentalizing in social anxiety: evidence for a context-dependent relationship. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1501

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  • Penner, F., *Wall, K., Jardin, C., Brown, J. L., Sales, J. M., & Sharp, C. (2019). A study of risky sexual behavior, beliefs about sexual behavior, and sexual self-efficacy in adolescent inpatients with and without borderline personality disorder. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment, 10(6), 524-535 
  • Skinner, D., Sharp, C., Marais, L., Serekoane, M., & Lenka, M. (2019). A qualitative study on teachers’ perceptions of their learners’ mental health problems in a disadvantaged community in South Africa. Curationis, 42(1), 1-7 
  • Boylan, K., Chahal, J., Courtney, D.B., Sharp, C., Bennett, K. (2019). An Evaluation of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Self-Harm in Adolescents: The Role of Borderline Personality Pathology. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 10(6) 500-510

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  • Sharp, C. (2019). What’s in a name? The importance of adolescent personality pathology for adaptive psychosocial function. Invited editorial. Journal of the American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
  • Charak, R., Byllesby, B. M., Fowler, C. J., Sharp, C., Elhai, J. D., & Frueh, B. C. (2019). Assessment of the Revised Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scales among adolescents and adults with severe mental illness. Psychiatry Research, 279, 278-283.

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  • Hatkevich, C., Venta, A., & Sharp, C. (2019). Theory of mind and suicide ideation and attempt in adolescent inpatients. Journal of Affective Disorders, 256, 17-25.

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  • Jones, J., Penner, F., Schramm, A.T., & Sharp, C. (2019). Experiential avoidance in adolescents with borderline personality disorder: Comparison with non-BPD psychiatric group and healthy controls. Cognitive Behavior Therapy.

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  • Muñoz, C. G., Abate, A., Sharp, C., & Venta, A. (2019). Factor structure and clinical utility of the youth psychopathic traits inventory in an inpatient sample. Psychiatry Research, 275, 189-195.

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  • Ballespi, S., Vives, J., Alonso, N., Sharp, C., Salvadora, M. R., Fonagy, P., & Barrantes-Vidal, N. (2019). To know or not to know? Mentalization as protection from somatic complaints. PLoS ONE 14(5): e0215308.

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  • Lind, M., Vanwoerden, S., Penner, F., & Sharp, C. (2019). Inpatient adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder features: Identity diffusion and narrative incoherence. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.

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  • Somma, A., Ferrara, M., Terrinoni, A., Frau, C., Ardizzone , I., Sharp, C., & Fossati, A. (2019). Hypermentalizing as a marker of Borderline Personality Disorder in Italian adolescents: A cross-cultural replication of Sharp and colleagues’ (2011) findings. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 6(5).

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  • Mellick, W., Sharp, C., & Ernst, M. (2019). Depressive adolescent girls exhibit atypical social decision-making in an iterative trust game. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 38(3), 224-244.

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  • Mellick, W., Hatkevich, C., Venta, A., Hill, R., Kazimi, I., Elhai, J. D., & Sharp, C. (2019). Measurement invariance of depression symptom ratings across African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Caucasian adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Psychological Assessment, 31(6), 833-838. .

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  • Vanwoerden, S., Leavitt, J., Gallagher, M., Temple, J., & Sharp, C. (2019). Dating violence victimization and borderline personality pathology: Temporal associations from late adolescence to early adulthood. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment, 10(2), 132-142. .

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  • Sharp, C., Penner, F., & Ensink, K. (2019). Reflective function and borderline traits in adolescents. Journal of Personality Disorders, 33, 1-16. .

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  • Lind, M., Vanwoerden, S., Penner, F., & Sharp, C. (2019). Narrative coherence in adolescence: Relations with attachment, mentalization, and psychopathology. Journal of Personality Assessment. .

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  • Vanwoerden, S., Greiner, I., Ensink, K., & Sharp, C. (2019) The relations between self- and caregiver- focused reflective function and theory of mind in the context of borderline pathology in adolescence. Psychiatry Research, 273, 274-280.

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  • Vanwoerden, S., Garey, L., Furgeson, T., Temple, J. R., & Sharp, C. (2019). The Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children-11 (BPFS-C-11): Measurement Invariance Over Time and Across Gender in Community Sample of Adolescents. Psychological Assessment, 31(1), 114-119. doi: 10.1037/pas0000640

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  • Hatkevich, C., Penner, F., & Sharp, C. (2019). Difficulties in emotional regulation and suicide ideation and attempt in adolescent inpatients. Psychiatry Research, 271, 230-238.

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  • Wong, C. C. Y., Paulus, D. J., Lemaire, C., Leonard, A., Sharp, C., Neighbors, C., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2019). Emotion dysregulation: An explanatory construct in the relation between HIV-related stigma and hazardous drinking among persons living with HIV/AIDS. Stigma and Health, 43(3), 293-299.

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2018

  • Ballespi, S., Vives, J., Debbane, M., Sharp, C., & Barrantes-Vidal, N. (2018). Beyond diagnosis: Mentalization and mental health from a transdiagnostic point of view in adolescents from non-clinical population. Psychiatry Research, 270, 755-763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.10.048

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  • Gambin, M., & Sharp, C. (2018). The relations between empathy, guilt, shame and depression in inpatient adolescents. Journal of Affective Disorders, 241, 381-387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.08.068

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  • Gambin, M., Wozniak-Prus, M., & Sharp, C. (2018). Executive functions and attachment to mother and father in female and male adolescents. European Journal of Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1080/17405629.2018.1511419
  • Sharp, C., Vanwoerden, S. & Wall, K. (2018). Adolescence as a sensitive period for the development of personality pathology. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 41(4), 669-683. doi: 10.1016/j.psc.2018.07.004
  • Sharp, C., Penner, F., Marais, L., & Skinner, D. (2018). School connectedness as psychological resilience factor in children affected by HIV/AIDS. AIDS Care, 30(sup4), 34-41. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2018.1511045

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  • Sharp, C., Steinberg, L., Michonski, J., Kalpakci, A., Fowler, C., Frueh, C., & Fonagy, P. (2018). DSM borderline criterion function across age groups: A cross-sectional mixed- method study. Psychological Assessment, 26(6), 1014-1029. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191118786587

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  • Brown, J. L., Sales, J. M., Sharp, C., Cloete, J., Lenka, M., Rani, K., Marime, P., Ditlhate, I., Moqolo, R., Peterson, D., & Marais, L. (2018). Cultural Consensus Modelling to Understand the Reproductive Health Needs of South African Adolescent Girls. South African Journal of Child Health, 40-43. DOI:10.7196/SAJCH.2018.v12i2.1500

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  • Gambin, M., & Sharp, C. (2018). Relations between empathy and anxiety dimensions in inpatient adolescents. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 31(4), 447-458. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2018.1475868

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  • Gillespie, S., Kongerslev, M., Sharp, C., Bo, S., & Abu-Akel, A. (2018). Does affective theory of mind contribute to proactive aggression in boys with conduct problems and psychopathic tendencies? Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 49(6), 906-916. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-018-0806-8.
  • Ballespi, S., Perez-Domingo, A., Vives, J., Sharp, C., & Barrantes-Vidal, N. (2018). Childhood behavioral inhibition is associated with impaired mentalizing in adolescence. PLOS ONE, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195303

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  • Penner, F. & Sharp, C. (2018). Perceived pubertal timing and borderline personality pathology in female adolescent inpatients. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 82(2), 157-170. https://doi.org/10.1521/bumc.2018.82.2.157
  • Duval, J., Ensink, K., Normandin, L., Sharp, C., & Fonagy, P. (2018). Measuring Reflective Functioning in Adolescents; Relation to Personality Disorders and Psychological Difficulties. Adolescent Psychiatry, 8(1), 5-20.  https://doi.org/10.2174/2210676608666180208161619

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  • Hill, R. M., Penner, F., Vanwoerden, S., Mellick, W., Kazimi, I., & Sharp, C. (2018). Interpersonal Trust and Suicide Ideation Among Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients: An Indirect Effect via Perceived Burdensomeness. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 49(1), 240-252. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12433

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  • Saxena, K., Verrico, C. D., Kahlon, R., Amin, P., Arvind, R. P., Patel, M., Sharp, C., Williams, L., & Shah, A. (2018). Borderline features in youth with bipolar spectrum disorders. Adolescent Psychiatry, 8(3), 174-184. https://doi.org/10.2174/2210676609666181203103443

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  • Venta, A., Magyar, M., Hossein, S., & Sharp, C. (2018). The psychometric properties of the Personality Assessment Inventory-Adolescent's Borderline Features Scale across two high-risk samples. Psychological Assessment, 30(6), 827-833. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pas0000528

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  • Bailey, C., Abate, A., Sharp, C., & Venta, A. (2018). Psychometric evaluation of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems 32. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 82(2), 93-113.  https://doi.org/10.1521/bumc.2018.82.2.93. 

  • Wall, K., Kalpakci, A., Hall, K., Crist, N. & Sharp, C. (2018). An evaluation of the construct of emotional sensitivity from the perspective of emotionally sensitive people. Borderline Personality Disorder/Emotion Dysregulation, 5(14)

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  • Wall, K., Ahmend, Y., & Sharp, C. (2018). Parent-adolescent concordance in borderline pathology and why it matters. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.

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  • Jardin, C., Mayorga, N. A., Bakhshaie, J., Garey, L., Viana, A. G., Sharp, C., Cardoso, J. B., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2018). Clarifying the relation of acculturative stress and anxiety/depressive symptoms: The role of anxiety sensitivity among Hispanic college students. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 24(2), 221-230.

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  • Ball, E., Venta, A., Sharp, C. (2018). The Role of Maternal Care in Borderline Personality Disorder and Dependent Life Stress. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 5(5).

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  • Gambin, G., Wozniak-Prus, M., & Sharp, C. (2018). Attachment and psychopathic traits in inpatient adolescent females and males. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 81, 73-80. [IF: 2.549]

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  • Sharp, C., & Wall, K. (2018). Personality pathology grows up: Adolescence as a sensitive period. Current Opinion in Psychology, 21, 111-116. [IF: 0.755]

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  • Fowler, C., Madan, A., Allen, J.G., Patriquin, M., Sharp, C., Oldham, J., & Frueh, C. (2018). Clinical Utility of the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Borderline Personality Disorder: Differential Diagnostic Accuracy of the BFI, SCIDII PQ, and PID-5. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 80, 97-103. [IF: 2.549]

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  • Venta, A., Sharp, C., Patriquin, M., Salas, R., Newlin, E., Curtis, K., Baldwin, P., Fowler, C., & Frueh, C. (2018). Amygdala-frontal connectivity predicts internalizing symptom recovery among inpatient adolescents. Journal of Affective Disorders, 225, 453-459

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  • Venta, A., Ball, E., Shmueli-Goetz, Y., & Sharp, C. (2018). Artificial neural network coding of the Child Attachment Interview using linguistic data. Attachment & Human Development, 20, 62-83.

2017

  • Borelli, J. L., Palmer, A., Vanwoerden, S., & Sharp, C. (2017). Convergence in reports of adolescents' psychopathology: A Focus on Disorganized Attachment and Reflective Functioning. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 48(4), 568-581.

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  • Venta, A., Ha, C., Vanwoerden, S., Newlin, E., Strathearn, L. & Sharp, C. (2017). Paradoxical Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin on Trust in Inpatient and Community Adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.

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  • Vanwoerden, S., Steinberg, L., Coffman, A. D., Paulus, D. J., Morey, L. C., & Sharp, C. (2017). Evaluation of the PAI-A Anxiety and Depression scales: Evidence of construct validity. Journal of Personality Assessment, 100:3, 313-320. Doi:

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  • Wong, C. C. Y., Paulus, D. J., Lemaire, C., Leonard, A., Sharp, C., Neighbors, C., Brandt, C. P., Lu, Q., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2017). Examining HIV-Related Stigma in Relation to Pain Interference and Psychological Inflexibility among Persons Living with HIV/AIDS: The Role of Anxiety Sensitivity. Submitted for Publication. Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services, 17:1, 1-15.

  • Buitron, V., Hartley, C., Pettit, J., Hatkevich, C., & Sharp, C. (2017). Aggressive Behaviors and Suicide Ideation in Inpatient Adolescents: The Moderating Roles of Internalizing Symptoms and Stress. Suicide and Life-threatening Behavior, 48(5), 580-588.

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  • Jardin, C., Sharp, C., Garey, L., Vanwoerden, S., Crist, N., Elhai, J. D., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2017).    Compelled to risk: Does sexual compulsivity explain the connection between borderline personality traits and risky sexual behaviors. Journal of Personality Disorders, 31, 1-15.

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  • Herpertz, S.C., Huprich, S.K., Bohus, M., Chanen, A., Goodman, M., Mehlum, L., Moran, P., Newton- Howes, G., & Sharp, C. (2017). Challenge of transforming the diagnostic system of personality disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 31(5), 557-589.

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  • De Clercq, B., Hofmans, J., Vergauwe1, J., De Fruyt, F., Sharp, C. (2017). Developmental pathways of childhood dark traits. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 126(7), 843-858. [IF: 4.133]

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  • Hart, J. R., Venta, A., & Sharp, C. (2017). Attachment and thought problems in an adolescent inpatient sample: The mediational role of theory of mind. Comprehensive Psychiatry 78, 38-47. [IF: 2.549]

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  • Hill, R., Hatkevich, C., Kazimi, I., & Sharp, C. (2017). The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale: Associations between Interrupted, Aborted, and Actual Suicide Attempts among Adolescent Inpatients. Psychiatry Research, 255, 338-340. [IF: 2.837]

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  • Reddy, R., Ha, C., Newlin, E., & Sharp, C. (2017). Predictors of Length of Stay in a Psychiatric Adolescent Treatment Program. Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 23(5), 342-351. [IF: 1.731]

  • Marshall, K., Henderson, C., Barker, M., Sharp, C., and Venta, A. (2017). Linguistic Analysis as a Method for Assessing Symptoms after Sexual Trauma among Adolescent Inpatients. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse 26(8), 910-926.

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  • Chanen, A., Sharp, C.., Hoffman, P., and the Global Alliance for Prevention and Early Intervention for Borderline Personality Disorder (2017). Prevention and early intervention for borderline personality disorder: a public health priority. World Psychiatry, 16(2), 215-216. [IF: 26.561].§Joint first authors

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  • Hatkevich, C., Mellick, W., Reuter, T., Temple, J., & Sharp, C. (2017). Dating violence victimization, nonsuicidal self-injury and the moderating effect of borderline features in adolescent inpatients. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

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  • Miles, S. R., Sharp, C., Teten Tharp, A., Stanford, M., Stanley, M., Thompson, K. E. & Kent, T. A. (2017). Emotion Dysregulation as an Underlying Mechanism of Aggression: Reviewing Empirical Data to Inform Treatments for Those who Perpetrate Violence. Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review Journal, 34, 147-153.

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  • Abate, A., Marshall, K., Sharp, C., and Venta, A. (2017). Trauma and aggression: Investigating the mediating role of mentalizing in female and male inpatient adolescents. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 48(6), 881-890.

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  • Brandt, C. P., Jardin, C., Sharp, & Zvolensky, M. (2017). Main and Interactive Effects of Emotion Dysregulation and HIV Symptom Severity on Quality of Life among Persons Living with HIV/AIDS. AIDS Care, 4, 498-506.

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  • Beck, E., Sharp, C., Poulsen, S., Bo, S., Pedersen, J., & Simonsen, E. (2017). The mediating role of mentalizing capacity between parents and peer attachment and adolescent borderline personality disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 4(23), 1-4.

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  • Hill, R.M., Hatkevich, C., Pettit, J.W., & Sharp, C. (2017). Gender and the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of suicide: A three-way interaction between perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and gender. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 36(10), 799-813.

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  • Vanwoerden, S., Kalpakci, A., & Sharp, C. (2017). The relations between inadequate parent- child boundaries and borderline personality disorder in adolescence. Psychiatry Research, 257: 462-471.

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  • Venta, A., Hatkevich, C., Sharp, C., & Rotenberg, K. (2017). Low Emotional Trust in Mothers is Associated with Increased Suicide Attempts in Inpatient Adolescents with Depressive Symptoms. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 36(3), 221-237.

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  • Ibraheim, M., Kalpakci, A., & Sharp, C. (2017). The specificity of emotion dysregulation in adolescents with borderline personality disorder: Comparison with psychiatric and healthy controls. Borderline Personality Disorder/Emotion Dysregulation, 4 (1).

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  • Bo, S., Sharp, C., Beck, E., Pedersen, J., Matthias, G., & Simonsen, E. (2017). First empirical evaluation of outcomes for mentalization-based group therapy for adolescents with BPD. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment, 8(4), 396-401.

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  • Madan, A., Fowler, J.C., Patriquin, M.A., Salas, R., Baldwin, P.R., Velasquez, K.M., Viswanath, H., Molfese, D.L., Sharp, C., Allen, J., Hardesty, S., Oldham, J., & Frueh, B.C. (2017). A novel approach to identifying a neuroimaging biomarker for patients with serious mental illness. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 29(3), 275-283.

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  • Hill, R. M., Mellick, W., Temple, J. R., & Sharp, C. (2017). The role of bullying in depressive symptoms from adolescence to emerging adulthood: A growth mixture model. Journal of Affective Disorders, 207,1-8.

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  • Mellick, W., Vanwoerden, S., & Sharp, C. (2017). Experiential avoidance in the vulnerability to depression among adolescent females. Journal of Affective Disorders, 208, 497-502.

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  • Sommer, J., Babcock, J., & Sharp, C. (2017). A Dyadic Analysis of Partner Violence and Adult Attachment. Journal of Family Violence. 32(3), 279-290.

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  • Garey, L., Jardin, C., Kauffman, B. Y., Sharp, C., Neighbors, C., Schmidt, N. B., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2017). Psychometric evaluation of the Barriers to Cessation Scale. Psychological Assessment, 29(7), 844-856. [IF: 3.922].

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  • Brandt, C. P., Bakhshaie, J., Jardin, C., Lemaire, C., Kauffman, B. Y., Sharp, C., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2017). The Moderating Effect of Smoking Status on the Relation Between Anxiety Sensitivity and Hazardous Alcohol Use, Sexual Compulsivity, and Suicidality among Persons Living with HIV/AIDS. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 24 (1), 92-100.

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  • Gandy, K., Kim, S., Sharp, C., Dindo, L., Maletic-Savatic, M., & Calarge, C. (2017). Pattern Separation: A Potential Marker of Impaired Hippocampal Adult Neurogenesis in Major Depressive Disorder. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11, 571.

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  • Jardin, C., Sharp, C., Garey, L., & Zvolensky, M. (2017). The role of impulsivity in the relation between negative affect and sexual HIV-risk behaviors. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy.

  • Jardin, C., Venta, A., Newlin, E., Ibarra, S., & Sharp, C. (2017). Secure attachment moderates the relation of sexual trauma with trauma symptoms among adolescents from an inpatient psychiatric facility. Journal of interpersonal violence, 32(10), 1565-1585. 

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  • Bo, S., Sharp, C., Fonagy, P., & Kongerslev, M. (2017). Hypermentalizing, attachment, and epistemic trust in adolescent BPD: Clinical illustrations. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 8(2), 172. 

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  • Venta, A., Hatkevich, C., Mellick, W., Vanwoerden, S., & Sharp, C. (2017). Social Cognition Mediates the Relation between Attachment Schemas and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 9 (1), 88-95. 

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  • Wall, K., Sharp, C., Ahmed, Y., Goodman, M. & Zanarini, M.C. (2017). Parent-Adolescent Concordance on the Revised Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines (DIB-R) and the Childhood Interview for Borderline Personality Disorder (CI-BPD). Personality and Mental Health, 11(3), 179-188. 

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  • Sharp, C. (2017). Bridging the gap: The assessment and treatment of adolescent personality disorder in routine clinical care. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 102(1), 103-108. 

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  • Katz-Wise, S. L., Williams, D. N., Keo-Meier, C. L., Budge, S. L., Pardo, S., & Sharp, C. (2017, October 5). Longitudinal Associations of Sexual Fluidity and Health in Transgender Men and Cisgender Women and Men. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. Advance online publication.  

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2016

  • Mellick, W., Sharp, C., & Wilkinson, A. (2016). The moderating role of maternal depression in the relation between adolescent behavioral inhibition and maternal critical expressed emotion. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 1-8.

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  • Jardin, C., Marais, L., Bakhshaie, J., Skinner, D., Neighbors, C., Zvolensky, M., & Sharp, C. (2016). Caregiver alcohol use and mental health among children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in South Africa. AIDS Care, 23 (3), 399-407.

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  • Paulus, D. J., Jardin, C., Bakhshaie, J., Sharp, C., Woods, S. P., Lemaire, C., Leonard, A., Neighbors, C., *Brandt, C. P., & Zvolensky, M. Z. (2016). Anxiety Sensitivity and Hazardous Drinking among Persons Living with HIV/AIDS: An Examination of the Role of Emotion Dysregulation . Addictive Behaviors, 63, 141-148.

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  • Kirk, U., Xiaosi, G., Sharp, C., Fonagy, P., & Montague, R. (2016). Mindfulness training increases rational decision-making and recruits mesolimbic processes in economic exchanges. Neuroimage, 138, 274-283. [IF: 6.943].

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  • Clark, C. B., Weaver, N., Li, Y., Sharp, C., Bowerman, S. E., & Cropsey, K. L., (2016). Preliminary results for an economic exchange game designed to measure of an aspect of antisocial behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 101, 120-126. [IF: 2.400]

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  • Venta, A., Jardin, C., Kalpakci, A., & Sharp, C. (2016). The development and preliminary psychometric evaluation of an attachment Implicit Association Task. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 80 (3),            255-280. [IF: 0.886]

  • Vanwoerden, S., Reuter, T., & Sharp, C. (2016). Exploring the clinical utility of the DSM-5 conduct disorder specifier of ‘with limited prosocial emotions’ in an adolescent inpatient sample. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 69, 116-131.

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  • Sharp, C., Fowler, C., Salas, R., Nielsen, C., Allen, J., Oldham, J., Kosten, T., Matthew, S., Madan, A.,Frueh, C., & Fonagy, P. (2016). Operationalizing NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) in    naturalistic clinical settings. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 80 (3), 187-212.

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  • Van der Watt, R., & Sharp, C. (2016). Advanced Training in Child Psychology: Key Elements in Offering a Doctor of Psychology (DPsych) Course in South Africa. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 26 (4), 401-406.

  • Fossati, A., Sharp, C., Borroni, S., Maffei, C., & Somma, A. (2016). Psychometric Properties of the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children-11 (BPFSC-11) in a Sample of Community Dwelling Italian Adolescents. European Journal of Psychological Assessment.

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  • Somma, A., Fossati, A., Borroni, S., & Sharp, C. (2016). Borderline personality disorder features, emotion dysregulation and non-suicidal self-Injury: Preliminary findings in a sample of community- dwelling Italian adolescents. Personality and Mental Health,11(1),23-32.

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  • Ha, C., Madan, A., Long, T. A., & Sharp, C. (2016). An Examination of Incentive Strategies to Increase Participation in Outcomes Research for an Adolescent Inpatient Unit. Journal of Psychiatric PracticeÂź, 22(3), 250-256.

  • Skinner, D., Sharp, C., Serekoane, M. & Ross, M. (2016). The cultural adaptation of the DISC-IV for use in South Africa: Appropriateness for Sotho Speaking South Africans. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work.

  • Young, C. M., Neighbors, C., DiBello, A. M., Sharp, C., Zvolensky, M. J., & Lewis, M. A. (2016). Coping motives moderate efficacy of personalized normative feedback among heavy drinking US college students. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 77(3), 495-499.

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  • Mellick, W., & Sharp, C. (2016). Mental state decoding in adolescent boys with major depressive disorder versus sex-matched healthy controls. Psychopathology, 49(1), 53-59.

  • Paulus, Vanwoerden, Norton, & Sharp. (2016). From neuroticism to anxiety: Examining unique contributions of three transdiagnostic vulnerability factors. Personality and Individual Differences, 94, 38-43.

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  • Sharp, C. (2016). Current trends in BPD research as indicative of a broader sea-change in psychiatric nosology? Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment, 7 (4), 334-363. 

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  • Zvolensky, M., Jardin, C., Garey, L., Robles, Z., & Sharp, C. (2016). Acculturative stress and experiential avoidance: relations to depression, suicide, and anxiety symptoms among minority college students. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 45 (6), 501-517.

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  • Gambin, M., & Sharp, C. (2016). The differential relationships between empathy and internalizing and externalizing symptoms in inpatient adolescents. Child Psychiatry and Human Development.

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  • Jardin, C., Garey, L., Sharp, C., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2016). Acculturative stress and risky sexual behavior: The roles of sexual compulsivity and negative affect. Behavior Modification, 40, 97-119. manuscript ID: BMOD-15-0056.R1. 

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  • Paulus, D. J., Vanwoerden, S., Norton, P. J., & Sharp, C. (2016). Emotion Dysregulation, Psychological Inflexibility, and Shame as Explanatory Factors between Neuroticism and Depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 190, 376-385.

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  • Buitron, V., Hill, R., Pettit, J., Green, K., Hatkevich, C., & Sharp, C. (2016). Interpersonal stress and suicidal ideation in adolescence: Direct associations and an indirect association through perceived burdensomeness towards others. Journal of Affective Disorders,190, 143-149. 

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  • Sharp, C., Venta, A., Vanwoerden, S., Schramm, A., Ha, C., Newlin, E., Reddy, R., & Fonagy, P. (2016). First empirical evaluation of the link between attachment, social cognition and borderline features in adolescents . Comprehensive Psychiatry, 64, 4-11 .

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2015

  • Fonagy, P., & Sharp, C. (2015). Author response to commentaries on “Mentalization: From Bench to Bedside”. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment, 6(4). [IF: 3.249]

  • Claycomb, M. A., Wang, L., Sharp, C., Radcliffe, K. C., & Elhai, J. D. (2015). Assessing relations between PTSD’s dysphoria and re-experiencing factors and dimensions of rumination. PLoS One, 10(3), 1-  13.

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  • Gambin, M., Gambin, T., & Sharp, C. (2015). Social cognition, psychopathology symptoms, and family functioning in a sample of inpatient adolescents using variable-centered and person-centered approaches. Journal of Adolescence, 45, 31-43.

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  • Brunson, J., Acitelli, L., & Sharp, C. (2015). Exploring the Dynamic Nature of ᮉUsᎩ: An Integrative Approach to Relationship Cognition. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 79(2), 131-165 .

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  • Kalpakci, A., Vanwoerden, S., Elhai, J., & Sharp, C. (2015). The independent contributions of emotion dysregulation and hypermentalization to the ᳉double dissociationáł© of affective and cognitive empathy in female adolescent inpatients with BPD. Journal of Personality Disorders, 29, 192-211 .

  • Ugur, M., Shastri, D., Tsiamyrtzis, P., Dcosta, M., Kalpakci, A., Sharp, C., & Pavlidis, I. (2015). Evaluating smartphone-based user interface designs for a 2D psychological questionnaire. Association for Computing Machinery: Digital Library .