Recent advances in personality disorder research

Carla Sharp, PhD, is a John and Rebecca Moores Professor and Associate Dean in the clinical psychology doctoral program at the University of Houston. She is also the director of the Adolescent Diagnosis Assessment Prevention and Treatment Center and the developmental psychopathology lab at the University of Houston. Her work has significantly advanced the scientific understanding of the phenomenology, causes, correlates, and treatment of personality pathology in youth. She is the recipient of the 2016 Mid-Career Award, North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, and the 2018 Award for Achievement in the Field of Severe Personality Disorders from the Personality Disorders Institute and Borderline Personality Disorder Resource Center, New York. She is the current past-president of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, associate editor for the APA journal Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment, editor for Personality and Mental Health, a workgroup member for updating the American Psychiatric Association practice guidelines for borderline personality disorder as well as a member of the DSM-5 personality disorders workgroup. She has published more than 320 peer-reviewed publications (h-index 71), in addition to numerous chapters and books, including Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents (Springer, 2013), Mentalizing in Psychotherapy (Guilford, 2022) and Handbook of Good Psychiatric Management for Adolescents (APA, 2022). Her work has been funded by the NICHD, NIAAA, NIMH, the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, and other foundations.