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Carla Sharp is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on psychology, with a significant emphasis on clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and related subfields such as philosophy, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

Sharp has published extensively, with selected recent papers including:

  • "DSM-5 Level of Personality Functioning: Refocusing Personality Disorder on What It Means to Be Human," 2020, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • "Adolescent Personality Pathology and the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders: Self Development as Nexus," 2020, Psychopathology

While not the primary author, some notable related works with overlapping research themes include:

  • "Change in Youth Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Majority Hispanic/Latinx US Sample," 2020, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • "The relations between childhood maltreatment, shame, guilt, depression and suicidal ideation in inpatient adolescents," 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Hypermentalizing and Borderline Personality Disorder: A Meta-Analytic Review," 2022, American Journal of Psychotherapy

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authors such as Francesca Penner, Salome Vanwoerden, Sophie Kerr, Lochner Marais, and Kiana Wall, reflecting ongoing partnerships within the field.

Sharp has contributed to several academic publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Personality Disorders
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
  • Personality and Mental Health
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

They have also authored books published by recognized academic publishers, including:

  • "The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders," published by Cambridge University Press in 2020
  • "Handbook of Good Psychiatric Management for Adolescents With Borderline Personality Disorder," published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks in 2021

Best Publications

  • The Rupture and Repair of Cooperation in Borderline Personality Disorder

    Brooks King-Casas;Carla Sharp;Laura Lomax-Bream;Terry Lohrenz

  • The Parent's Capacity to Treat the Child as a Psychological Agent: Constructs, Measures and Implications for Developmental Psychopathology

    Carla Sharp;Peter Fonagy

  • Theory of mind and emotion regulation difficulties in adolescents with borderline traits.

    Carla Sharp;Heather Pane;Carolyn Ha;Amanda Venta

  • The Structure of Personality Pathology: Both General ('g') and Specific ('s') Factors?

    Carla Sharp;Aidan G. C. Wright;J. Christopher Fowler;B. Christopher Frueh

  • New tricks for an old measure: The development of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale–Brief (BIS-Brief).

    Lynne Steinberg;Carla Sharp;Matthew S. Stanford;Andra Teten Tharp

  • The Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ): A Unidimensional Item Response Theory and Categorical Data Factor Analysis of Self-Report Ratings from a Community Sample of 7-through 11-Year-Old Children

    Carla Sharp;Ian M. Goodyer;Tim J. Croudace

  • Prevention and early intervention for borderline personality disorder: a novel public health priority.

    Andrew M Chanen;Carla Sharp;Perry Hoffman

  • Practitioner Review: Borderline personality disorder in adolescence – recent conceptualization, intervention, and implications for clinical practice

    Carla Sharp;Peter Fonagy

  • Evaluating the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire: comparison of the reliability, factor structure, and predictive validity across five versions

    Ryan M. Hill;Yasmin Rey;Carla E. Marin;Carla Sharp

  • Hypermentalizing in adolescent inpatients: treatment effects and association with borderline traits.

    Carla Sharp;Carolyn Ha;Crystal Carbone;Sohye Kim

  • The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale: Factor Structure and Association with Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Adolescent Inpatients

    Jose Perez;Amanda Venta;Sarah Garnaat;Carla Sharp

  • The Challenge of Transforming the Diagnostic System of Personality Disorders.

    Sabine C. Herpertz;Steven K. Huprich;Martin Bohus;Andrew Chanen

  • DSM-5 Level of Personality Functioning: Refocusing Personality Disorder on What It Means to Be Human

    Carla Sharp;Kiana Wall

  • Imagining your child's mind: Psychosocial adjustment and mothers' ability to predict their children's attributional response styles

    Carla Sharp;Peter Fonagy;Peter Fonagy;Ian M. Goodyer

  • Borderline personality disorder in adolescents: evidence in support of the Childhood Interview for DSM-IV Borderline Personality Disorder in a sample of adolescent inpatients.

    Carla Sharp;Carolyn Ha;Jared Michonski;Amanda Venta

  • Change in Youth Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Majority Hispanic/Latinx US Sample.

    Francesca Penner;Jessica Hernandez Ortiz;Carla Sharp

  • The measurement of reflective function in adolescents with and without borderline traits

    Carolyn Ha;Carla Sharp;Carla Sharp;Karin Ensink;Peter Fonagy

  • Neuroeconomics: A Bridge for Translational Research

    Carla Sharp;John Monterosso;P. Read Montague

  • Personality pathology grows up: adolescence as a sensitive period

    Carla Sharp;Kiana Wall

  • Children's subjective emotional reactivity to affective pictures: gender differences and their antisocial correlates in an unselected sample of 7-11-year-olds

    Carla Sharp;Stephanie Helena Maria Van Goozen;Ian Goodyer

  • Theory of Mind and conduct problems in children: Deficits in reading the “emotions of the eyes”

    Carla Sharp

  • The criterion validity of the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children in an adolescent inpatient setting.

    Bonny Chang;Carla Sharp;Carolyn Ha

  • Social Cognition and Developmental Psychopathology

    Carla Sharp;Peter Fonagy;Ian M. Goodyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Michael J. Zvolensky
Michael J. Zvolensky University of Houston
Jon G. Allen
Jon G. Allen Baylor College of Medicine
Neus Barrantes-Vidal
Neus Barrantes-Vidal Autonomous University of Barcelona
Jeffrey Temple
Jeffrey Temple The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Clayton Neighbors
Clayton Neighbors University of Houston
Jon D. Elhai
Jon D. Elhai University of Toledo
Jeremy W. Pettit
Jeremy W. Pettit Florida International University
Julia C. Babcock
Julia C. Babcock University of Houston

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