11th Annual Yale NEA-BPD Conference: Meeting the Needs of Children and Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder Features

Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Adolescents: Advances in Research and Treatment, Alec Miller, PsyD Dr. Miller is an expert in the treatment of borderline personality disorder, suicidal and non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors, and DBT. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University. Dr. Miller has published 4 books, including the latest, DBT Skills Training for Adolescents that he co-authored with Jill Rathus. He has conducted over 400 lectures and workshops and was co-investigator of the first randomized trial of adolescent DBT conducted in Norway. He is a consultant to numerous DBT research studies and 10 school districts in New York, implementing DBT in their schools. Dr. Miller treats adults, adolescents, couples and families.

Mentalization in Borderline Personality Disorder: From Bench to Bedside, Carla Sharp, PhD Dr. Sharp trained as a clinical psychologist (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) from 1994-1997, after which she completed a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychopathology at Cambridge University, UK, 1997-2000. In 2001, she obtained full licensure as a clinical psychologist in the UK. From 2001-2004 she was appointed as a Research Post-doctoral Fellow in Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge University. In 2004, she moved to the United States to take up an appointment as Assistant Professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. She obtained provisional licensure as Clinical Psychologist in Texas in 2008. In 2009, she was appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston. Her published work includes over 100 publications reflecting her interests in the social-cognitive basis of psychiatric problems and problems of beh

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Pre-adolescent Children: Current Research, Challenges and Findings, Francheska Perepletchikova, PhD Dr. Perepletchikova has a long-standing interest in emotion regulation difficulties in children, trauma-related psychopathology, depressive and anxiety problems, pediatric suicidality and self-harm behaviors, psychotherapy development, and treatment integrity in treatment outcome research. Her prior research focused on the examination of parenting practices related to behavior problems in children and adolescents. Dr. Perepletchikova is currently examining feasibility and preliminary efficacy of Dialectical Behavior Therapy adapted for pre-adolescent children with Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder. Further, she is evaluating efficacy of this intervention for children with severe emotional and behavioral dysregulation in residential care. This line of research has been funded by the NIMH Path to Independence Career Development Award and a grant from t

Intervening Early: Minding the Baby® and Preventing Later Psychopathology, Arietta Slade, PhD Arietta Slade, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized theoretician, clinician, researcher, and teacher, she has published widely on reflective parenting, the clinical implications of attachment theory, and the development of parental mentalization. For the past 13 years she has been co-directing Minding the Baby®, an interdisciplinary reflective parenting home visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their families, at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing. This program is one of only 17 certified "evidence-based" home visiting programs in the United States. Dr. Slade is editor, with Jeremy Holmes of the six volume set, Major Work on Attachment (SAGE Publications, 2013), with Elliot Jurist and Sharone Bergner, of Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2008), and with Dennie Wolf, of Children at Play (Oxford University Press, 1994).

Dr. Ansell is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Yale University and a member of the Yale Stress Center. She graduated with a PhD in clinical psychology from the Pennsylvania State University in 2005 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale working on the NIMH funded Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS). Her research has been funded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Peter McManus Foundation. Her primary research focuses on how personality pathology and social processes that moderate stress and emotion dysregulation impacts on maladaptive outcomes (e.g., suicide attempts, drug and alcohol use, binge eating). Her research also examines the effects of stressful life events and trauma on impulsivity and social functioning in using smartphone technology. Dr. Axelrod is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. He leads the DBT and DBT-SUD Adult Intensive Outpatient Program

Dr. Krystal is a leading expert in the areas of alcoholism, schizophrenia, and post-traumatic stress disorder. His work links psychopharmacology, neuroimaging, and molecular genetics to study the neurobiology and to develop novel treatments for these disorders. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He also serves in a variety of advisory and review capacities for NIAAA, NIMH, Wellcome Trust, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, and the Karolinska Institutet. Dr. Krystal also edits the journal Biological Psychiatry.

Welcome address to conference by Emily B. Ansell, PhD and Perry D. Hoffman, PhD. Dr. Ansell is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Yale University and a member of the Yale Stress Center. She graduated with a PhD in clinical psychology from the Pennsylvania State University in 2005 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale working on the NIMH funded Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS). Her research has been funded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Peter McManus Foundation. Her primary research focuses on how personality pathology and social processes that moderate stress and emotion dysregulation impacts on maladaptive outcomes (e.g., suicide attempts, drug and alcohol use, binge eating). Her research also examines the effects of stressful life events and trauma on impulsivity and social functioning in using smartphone technology. Perry D. Hoffman, Ph.D. is the President and co-founder of the