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Alexander L. Chapman

Alexander L. Chapman

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Overview

Alexander L. Chapman is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines within psychology and medicine, with a primary focus on clinical psychology and psychiatry-related mental health issues.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to several subfields such as:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Key research topics covered by their work include:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Alexander L. Chapman are:

  • The Effectiveness of 6 versus 12 Months of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Noninferiority Randomized Clinical Trial (2022), published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Predicting Engagement in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) Over the Course of 12 Months: The Roles of Borderline Personality Disorder Pathology and Emotional Consequences of NSSI (2020), published in Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Opioid Misuse and Family Structure: Changes and Continuities in the Role of Marriage and Children Over Two Decades (2021), published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Emotion Dysregulation in Personality Disorders (2023), published in Current Psychiatry Reports
  • Subgroups of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Latent Class Analysis (2023), published in Psychiatry Research

Alexander L. Chapman has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Richard F. Farmer
  • Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon
  • Shelley McMain
  • Janice R. Kuo
  • Cassandra J. Turner

The scientist's publications often appear in the following venues:

  • Personality and Mental Health
  • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

In addition to journal articles, Alexander L. Chapman has contributed to book publications with titles released by the American Psychological Association, including:

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (2020)
  • Behavioral Interventions in Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Practical Guidance for Putting Theory Into Action (3rd ed., 2024)

Best Publications

  • Solving the puzzle of deliberate self-harm: the experiential avoidance model.

    Alexander L. Chapman;Kim L. Gratz;Milton Z. Brown;Milton Z. Brown

  • Mechanisms of change in dialectical behavior therapy: theoretical and empirical observations.

    Thomas R. Lynch;Alexander L. Chapman;M. Zachary Rosenthal;Janice R. Kuo

  • The short version of the Borderline Symptom List (BSL-23): development and initial data on psychometric properties.

    Martin Bohus;Nikolaus Kleindienst;Matthias F. Limberger;Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz

  • Psychometric properties of the Borderline Symptom List (BSL).

    Martin Bohus;Matthias F. Limberger;Ulrike Frank;Alexander L. Chapman

  • Motives for nonsuicidal self-injury among women with borderline personality disorder.

    Nikolaus Kleindienst;Martin Bohus;Petra Ludäscher;Matthias F. Limberger

  • The role of emotional responding and childhood maltreatment in the development and maintenance of deliberate self-harm among male undergraduates.

    Kim L. Gratz;Alexander L. Chapman

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Current Status, Recent Developments, and Future Directions

    Clive J. Robins;Alex L. Chapman

  • Borderline personality disorder and deliberate self-harm: does experiential avoidance play a role?

    Alexander L. Chapman;Matthew W. Specht;Tony Cellucci

  • Treating nonsuicidal self-injury: a systematic review of psychological and pharmacological interventions.

    Brianna J Turner;Sara B Austin;Alexander L Chapman

  • Decision-making and risk aversion among depressive adults

    Moria J. Smoski;Thomas R. Lynch;M. Zachary Rosenthal;Jennifer S. Cheavens

  • Emotional Antecedents and Consequences of Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicide Attempts

    Alexander L. Chapman;Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon

  • Shame as a prospective predictor of self-inflicted injury in borderline personality disorder: A multi-modal analysis

    Milton Z. Brown;Marsha M. Linehan;Kathryn Anne Comtois;Angela Murray

  • Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Functions of Non suicidal Self-Injury: Associations with Emotional and Social Functioning

    Brianna J. Turner;Alexander L. Chapman;Brianne K. Layden

  • Treating co-occurring Axis I disorders in recurrently suicidal women with borderline personality disorder: a 2-year randomized trial of dialectical behavior therapy versus community treatment by experts

    Melanie S. Harned;Alexander L. Chapman;Elizabeth T. Dexter-Mazza;Angela Murray

  • Impulsivity and emotion dysregulation in Borderline Personality Disorder.

    Alexander L. Chapman;Debbie W. Leung;Thomas R. Lynch

  • The role of interpersonal conflict and perceived social support in nonsuicidal self-injury in daily life.

    Brianna J Turner;Rebecca J Cobb;Kim L Gratz;Alexander L Chapman

  • Behavioral Interventions in Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Practical Guidance for Putting Theory into Action

    Richard F. Farmer;Alexander L. Chapman

  • Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation.

    Alexander L Chapman

  • Non-suicidal self-injury with and without borderline personality disorder: differences in self-injury and diagnostic comorbidity.

    Brianna J. Turner;Brianna J. Turner;Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon;Sara B. Austin;Marcus A. Rodriguez

  • How often, or how many ways: clarifying the relationship between non-suicidal self-injury and suicidality.

    Brianna J Turner;Brianne K Layden;Sean M Butler;Alexander L Chapman

  • Factors associated with suicide attempts in female inmates: the hegemony of hopelessness.

    Alexander L. Chapman;Matthew W. Specht;Tony Cellucci

Frequent Co-Authors

Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon
Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kim L. Gratz
Kim L. Gratz University of Toledo
M. Zachary Rosenthal
M. Zachary Rosenthal Duke University
Matthew T. Tull
Matthew T. Tull University of Toledo
Thomas R. Lynch
Thomas R. Lynch University of Southampton
Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz
Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz University of Basel
Marsha M. Linehan
Marsha M. Linehan University of Washington
Nikolaus Kleindienst
Nikolaus Kleindienst Heidelberg University
David L. Streiner
David L. Streiner University of Toronto
Matthew K. Nock
Matthew K. Nock Harvard University

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