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Overview

Donna S. Bender is affiliated with Tulane University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions to the fields of clinical psychology and philosophy, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work centers on topics related to personality disorders and psychopathology, mental health and psychiatry, psychotherapy techniques and applications, mental health research topics, and personality traits and psychology.

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Personality Traits and Psychology

Donna S. Bender has published in several academic journals, with recent publications appearing in the following venues:

  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • Journal of Personality Assessment
  • Journal of Psychiatric Practice

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Criterion A: Level of personality functioning in the alternative DSM-5 model for personality disorders." (2022) published in Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • "The Incremental Utility of Criteria A and B of the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders for Predicting DSM-IV/DSM-5 Section II Personality Disorders" (2022) published in Journal of Personality Assessment
  • "The Clinical Utility of the Level of Personality Functioning Scale: A Treatment Perspective" (2024) published in Journal of Psychiatric Practice

Throughout their career, Donna S. Bender has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Andrew E. Skodol
  • Leslie C. Morey
  • Morgan N. McCredie
  • Tor E. Nysæter
  • Benjamin Hummelen

The research contributions of Donna S. Bender address various aspects of personality functioning within the framework of the DSM-5 alternative model for personality disorders, with a focus on the clinical utility and predictive value of specific diagnostic criteria.

Best Publications

  • The Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study: reliability of axis I and II diagnoses.

    Mary C. Zanarini;Andrew E. Skodol;Donna S. Bender;Regina T. Dolan

  • Treatment utilization by patients with personality disorders

    Donna S. Bender;Regina T. Dolan;Andrew E. Skodol;Charles A. Sanislow

  • Functional impairment in patients with schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

    Andrew E. Skodol;John G. Gunderson;Thomas H. McGlashan;Ingrid R. Dyck

  • Toward a Model for Assessing Level of Personality Functioning in DSM–5, Part I: A Review of Theory and Methods

    Donna S Bender;Leslie C Morey;Andrew E Skodol

  • The collaborative longitudinal personality disorders study (CLPS): Overview and implications

    Andrew E. Skodol;John G. Gunderson;M. Tracie Shea;Thomas H. McGlashan

  • Two-Year Prevalence and Stability of Individual DSM-IV Criteria for Schizotypal, Borderline, Avoidant, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders: Toward a Hybrid Model of Axis II Disorders

    Thomas H. McGlashan;Carlos M. Grilo;Charles A. Sanislow;Elizabeth Ralevski

  • Stability of functional impairment in patients with schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder over two years

    Andrew E. Skodol;Maria E. Pagano;Donna S. Bender;M. Tracie Shea

  • Proposed changes in personality and personality disorder assessment and diagnosis for DSM-5 Part I: Description and rationale.

    Andrew E. Skodol;Lee Anna Clark;Donna S. Bender;Robert F. Krueger

  • Confirmatory factor analysis of DSM-IV criteria for borderline personality disorder: findings from the collaborative longitudinal personality disorders study.

    Charles A. Sanislow;Carlos M. Grilo;Leslie C. Morey;Donna S. Bender

  • Gender differences in borderline personality disorder: findings from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study.

    Dawn M Johnson;M.Tracie Shea;Shirley Yen;Cynthia L Battle

  • Traumatic exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder in borderline, schizotypal, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders: findings from the collaborative longitudinal personality disorders study.

    Shirley Yen;M Tracie Shea;Cynthia L Battle;Dawn M Johnson

  • Personality disorder types proposed for DSM-5.

    Andrew E. Skodol;Donna S. Bender;Leslie C. Morey;Lee Anna Clark

  • Toward a model for assessing level of personality functioning in DSM-5, part II: empirical articulation of a core dimension of personality pathology

    Leslie C. Morey;Han Berghuis;Donna S. Bender;Roel Verheul

  • Axis I and axis II disorders as predictors of prospective suicide attempts: findings from the collaborative longitudinal personality disorders study.

    Shirley Yen;M. Tracie Shea;Maria Pagano;Charles A. Sanislow

  • Why are women diagnosed borderline more than men

    Andrew E. Skodol;Donna S. Bender

  • Dimensional Representations of DSM-IV Personality Disorders: Relationships to Functional Impairment

    Andrew E. Skodol;John M. Oldham;Donna S. Bender;Ingrid R. Dyck

  • Associations in the course of personality disorders and Axis I disorders over time.

    M. Tracie Shea;Robert L. Stout;Shirley Yen;Maria E. Pagano

  • Major Depressive Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder Revisited: Longitudinal Interactions

    John G. Gunderson;Leslie C. Morey;Robert L. Stout;Andrew E. Skodol

  • Borderline Personality as a Self-Other Representational Disturbance

    Donna S Bender;Andrew E Skodol

  • Recent life events preceding suicide attempts in a personality disorder sample: findings from the collaborative longitudinal personality disorders study.

    Shirley Yen;Maria E. Pagano;M. Tracie Shea;Carlos M. Grilo

Frequent Co-Authors

John G. Gunderson
John G. Gunderson Harvard University
Andrew E. Skodol
Andrew E. Skodol University of Arizona
Charles A. Sanislow
Charles A. Sanislow Wesleyan University
Leslie C. Morey
Leslie C. Morey Texas A&M University
Carlos M. Grilo
Carlos M. Grilo Yale University
Mary C. Zanarini
Mary C. Zanarini Harvard University
M. Tracie Shea
M. Tracie Shea Brown University
Shirley Yen
Shirley Yen Harvard Medical School
Robert L. Stout
Robert L. Stout Brown University
Robert F. Krueger
Robert F. Krueger University of Minnesota

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