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  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Barbara Stanley was affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the fields of psychology and medicine, with significant contributions in clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry, mental health, and emergency medicine.

They published extensively in major journals, contributing to the advancement of knowledge particularly related to suicide and self-harm studies. The most frequently appearing publication venues in their work included:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Contemporary Clinical Trials
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Molecular Psychiatry

Their main topics of research spanned:

  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment

Among the frequent co-authors in their collaborative work were:

  • Hanga Galfalvy (31 co-publications)
  • J. John Mann (21 co-publications)
  • María A. Oquendo (17 co-publications)
  • M. Elizabeth Sublette (15 co-publications)
  • Tse-Hwei Choo (13 co-publications)

Their notable papers included:

  • "Suicide Risk and Addiction: The Impact of Alcohol and Opioid Use Disorders," 2021, Current Addiction Reports
  • "Molecular stratification of endometrioid ovarian carcinoma predicts clinical outcome," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Suicide in the Time of COVID-19: Review and Recommendations," 2020, Archives of Suicide Research
  • "Detecting suicidal thoughts: The power of ecological momentary assessment," 2020, Depression and Anxiety
  • "Highly variable suicidal ideation: a phenotypic marker for stress induced suicide risk," 2020, Molecular Psychiatry

Barbara Stanley was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 2009.

Best Publications

  • The Columbia–Suicide Severity Rating Scale: Initial Validity and Internal Consistency Findings From Three Multisite Studies With Adolescents and Adults

    Kelly Posner;Gregory K. Brown;Barbara Stanley;David A. Brent

  • Safety Planning Intervention: A Brief Intervention to Mitigate Suicide Risk

    Barbara Stanley;Barbara Stanley;Gregory K. Brown

  • Columbia Classification Algorithm of Suicide Assessment (C-CASA): classification of suicidal events in the FDA's pediatric suicidal risk analysis of antidepressants.

    Kelly Posner;Maria A. Oquendo;M.P.H. Madelyn Gould;Barbara Stanley

  • Suicide and suicide risk

    Gustavo Turecki;David A. Brent;David Gunnell;David Gunnell;Rory C. O’Connor

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents With Repeated Suicidal and Self-harming Behavior: A Randomized Trial

    Lars Mehlum;Anita J. Tørmoen;Maria Ramberg;Egil Haga

  • Comparison of the Safety Planning Intervention With Follow-up vs Usual Care of Suicidal Patients Treated in the Emergency Department.

    Barbara Stanley;Barbara Stanley;Gregory K. Brown;Lisa A. Brenner;Lisa A. Brenner;Hanga C. Galfalvy;Hanga C. Galfalvy

  • Are suicide attempters who self-mutilate a unique population?

    Barbara Stanley;Marc J. Gameroff;Venezia Michalsen;J. John Mann

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP): Treatment Model, Feasibility, and Acceptability.

    Barbara Stanley;Gregory Brown;David A. Brent;Karen Wells

  • Familial pathways to early-onset suicide attempt: risk for suicidal behavior in offspring of mood-disordered suicide attempters.

    David A. Brent;Maria Oquendo;Boris Birmaher;Laurence Greenhill

  • Candidate Endophenotypes for Genetic Studies of Suicidal Behavior

    J. John Mann;Victoria A. Arango;Shelli Avenevoli;David A. Brent

  • Borderline Personality Disorder, Stigma, and Treatment Implications

    Ron B. Aviram;Beth S. Brodsky;Barbara Stanley

  • Suicide Among Soldiers: A Review of Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors

    Matthew K. Nock;Charlene Ann Deming;Carol S. Fullerton;Stephen Edward Gilman

  • Self-mutilation in personality disorders: psychological and biological correlates.

    Daphne Simeon;Barbara Stanley;Allen J. Frances;J. John Mann

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Comorbid With Major Depression: Factors Mediating the Association With Suicidal Behavior

    Maria Oquendo;David A. Brent;Boris Birmaher;Laurence Greenhill

  • Enhanced 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' in borderline personality disorder compared to healthy controls.

    E. A. Fertuck;A. Jekal;I. Song;B. Wyman

  • Religion and Suicide Risk: A Systematic Review

    Ryan E Lawrence;Maria A Oquendo;Barbara Stanley

  • Non-suicidal self-injurious behavior, endogenous opioids and monoamine neurotransmitters.

    Barbara Stanley;Leo Sher;Scott Wilson;Rolf Ekman

  • The Interpersonal Dimension of Borderline Personality Disorder: Toward a Neuropeptide Model

    Barbara Stanley;Larry J. Siever

  • The Treatment of Adolescent Suicide Attempters Study (TASA): Predictors of Suicidal Events in an Open Treatment Trial

    David A. Brent;Laurence L. Greenhill;Scott Compton;Graham Emslie

  • Toward a Biosignature for Suicide

    Maria A. Oquendo;Gregory M. Sullivan;Katherin Sudol;Enrique Baca-Garcia

  • COLUMBIA-SUICIDE SEVERITY RATING SCALE (C-SSRS)

    C. Lucas;M. Gould;B. Stanley;G. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria A. Oquendo
Maria A. Oquendo University of Pennsylvania
Beth S. Brodsky
Beth S. Brodsky Columbia University
J. John Mann
J. John Mann Columbia University
Hanga Galfalvy
Hanga Galfalvy Columbia University
David A. Brent
David A. Brent University of Pittsburgh
Gregory K. Brown
Gregory K. Brown University of Wyoming
John G. Keilp
John G. Keilp Columbia University
Boris Birmaher
Boris Birmaher University of Pittsburgh
Nadine M. Melhem
Nadine M. Melhem University of Pittsburgh
David J. Kolko
David J. Kolko University of Pittsburgh

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