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David P. Bernstein

David P. Bernstein

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
48
Citations
24011
World Ranking
3035
National Ranking
125

Overview

David P. Bernstein is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The primary focus of their research lies within the field of Psychology, with a concentration on Clinical Psychology. Their work covers a range of specialized areas including Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications, Healthcare Policy and Management, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Financial Literacy alongside Pension and Retirement Analysis, as well as Primary Care and Health Outcomes.

The scientist has contributed to several research papers published in various academic venues. These include:

  • Schema therapy for violent PD offenders: a randomized clinical trial (2021), Psychological Medicine
  • Agency notification and retrospective self-reports of childhood maltreatment in a 30-Year cohort: Estimating population prevalence from different data sources (2020), Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Psychometric Properties of the German Version of the Young Positive Schema Questionnaire (YPSQ) in the General Population and Psychiatric Patients (2021), Journal of Personality Assessment
  • The Influence of Early Maladaptive Schemas on the Causal Links between Perceived Injustice, Negative Affect, and Aggression (2020), International Journal of Forensic Mental Health
  • A preliminary psychometric study of the Turkish Schema mode inventory-forensic (SMI-F) (2021), Current Psychology

Their frequent publication venues reflect a broad engagement with both general and specialized psychology journals:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Journal of Personality Assessment
  • International Journal of Forensic Mental Health

David P. Bernstein often collaborates with several co-authors, notable among them are Jill Lobbestael, Maartje Clercx, Nick J. Broers, Arnoud Arntz, and Andreas Paetsch. These collaborations indicate a degree of interdisciplinary and team-based research activity within their scholarly work.

Their research interests include a focus on personality disorders and rehabilitation techniques, particularly schema therapy applied to forensic populations. The integration of psychometric evaluations and assessments within various populations is also a recurring theme in their publications.

Overall, the scholar's research portfolio spans both clinical applications and theoretical developments within psychology, with a notable emphasis on psychotherapeutic methods and forensic mental health contexts.

Best Publications

  • Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire

    David P Bernstein;Judith A Stein;Michael D Newcomb;Edward Walker

  • Validity of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire in an adolescent psychiatric population.

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  • Childhood maltreatment increases risk for personality disorders during early adulthood.

    Jeffrey G. Johnson;Patricia Cohen;Jocelyn Brown;Elizabeth M. Smailes

  • Adult health status of women with histories of childhood abuse and neglect

    Edward A Walker;Ann Gelfand;Wayne J Katon;Mary P Koss

  • Initial reliability and validity of the Childhood Trauma Interview: A new multidimensional measure of childhood interpersonal trauma.

    Laura A. Fink;David Bernstein;Leonard Handelsman;Jeffrey Foote

  • Prevalence and stability of the DSM-III-R personality disorders in a community-based survey of adolescents.

    David P. Bernstein;Patricia Cohen;C. Noemi Velez;Mary Schwab-Stone

  • Associations between four types of childhood neglect and personality disorder symptoms during adolescence and early adulthood: findings of a community-based longitudinal study.

    Jeffrey G. Johnson;Elizabeth M. Smailes;Patricia Cohen;Jocelyn Brown

  • A validation study of the Dutch Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form: Factor structure, reliability, and known-groups validity☆

    Brett D. Thombs;David P. Bernstein;Jill Lobbestael;Arnoud Arntz

  • Schema Therapy: Distinctive Features

    Eshkol Rafaeli;David P Bernstein;Jeffrey E. Young

  • Disentangling the Relationship Between Different Types of Childhood Maltreatment and Personality Disorders

    Jill Lobbestael;Arnoud Arntz;David P. Bernstein

  • Schema focused therapy in forensic settings: theoretical model and recommendations for best clinical practice

    David P. Bernstein;Arnoud Arntz;Marije de Vos

  • Psychosocial factors in fibromyalgia compared with rheumatoid arthritis: I. Psychiatric diagnoses and functional disability

    Edward A. Walker;David Keegan;Gregory Gardner;Mark Sullivan

  • Childhood antecedents of adolescent personality disorders.

    David P. Bernstein;Patricia Cohen;Andrew Skodol;Sophia Bezirganian

  • Childhood Trauma Questionnaire: Factor Structure, Measurement Invariance, and Validity Across Emotional Disorders

    Philip Spinhoven;Brenda W. Penninx;Marian Hickendorff;Albert M. van Hemert

  • Predicting personality pathology among adult patients with substance use disorders: Effects of childhood maltreatment

    David P. Bernstein;Judith A. Stein;Leonard Handelsman

  • Dr. Siever and Colleagues Reply

    Larry J. Siever;Richard Keefe;David P. Bernstein;Emil F. Coccaro

  • Opinions of personality disorder experts regarding the DSM-IV personality disorders classification system.

    David P Bernstein;Cuneyt Iscan;Jack Maser

  • Initial Validation of the Spanish Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form: Factor Structure, Reliability and Association With Parenting

    Ana Hernandez;David Gallardo-Pujol;Noemí Pereda;Arnoud Arntz

  • Schema Therapy for Forensic Patients with Personality Disorders: Design and Preliminary Findings of a Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial in the Netherlands

    David P. Bernstein;Henk L.I. Nijman;Kai Karos;Marije Keulen-de Vos

  • An evaluation of the measurement equivalence of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire—Short Form across gender and race in a sample of drug-abusing adults

    Brett D. Thombs;Charles Lewis;David P. Bernstein;Martha A. Medrano

  • Eye tracking impairment in clinically identified patients with schizotypal personality disorder.

    L J Siever;R Keefe;D P Bernstein;E F Coccaro

  • Theory of mind in borderline and cluster-C personality disorder.

    Arnoud Arntz;David Bernstein;Margreet Oorschot;Paul Schobre

  • Gender differences in the prediction of problem alcohol use in adulthood: exploring the influence of family factors and childhood maltreatment.

    Elisha R. Galaif;Judith A. Stein;Michael D. Newcomb;David P. Bernstein

  • TAXOMETRIC EVIDENCE FOR THE DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF CLUSTER-C, PARANOID, AND BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDERS

    Arnoud Arntz;David Bernstein;Dominique Gielen;Myrthe van Nieuwenhuyzen

  • The growth hormone response to clonidine in acute and remitted depressed male patients.

    Siever Lj;Trestman Rl;Coccaro Ef;Bernstein D

Frequent Co-Authors

Arnoud Arntz
Arnoud Arntz University of Amsterdam
Eshkol Rafaeli
Eshkol Rafaeli Bar-Ilan University
Larry J. Siever
Larry J. Siever Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Corine de Ruiter
Corine de Ruiter Maastricht University
Jill Lobbestael
Jill Lobbestael Maastricht University
Jeffrey Roelofs
Jeffrey Roelofs Maastricht University
Emil F. Coccaro
Emil F. Coccaro The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Susan McKenney
Susan McKenney University of Twente
Marcus J.H. Huibers
Marcus J.H. Huibers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Judith A. Stein
Judith A. Stein University of California, Los Angeles

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