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Overview

M. Tracie Shea is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and medicine. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, epidemiology, neurology, and general health professions. The main topics of their research include posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research, resilience and mental health, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, traumatic brain injury research, child abuse and trauma, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, and mindfulness and compassion interventions.

Shea has published multiple papers covering significant aspects of trauma and mental health. Notable recent publications include:

  • Association of Borderline Personality Disorder Criteria With Suicide Attempts, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • A clinical trial comparing trauma-informed guilt reduction therapy (TrIGR), a brief intervention for trauma-related guilt, to supportive care therapy, 2022, Depression and Anxiety
  • Virtual Reality and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, 2024, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction (TrIGR) therapy for guilt, shame, and moral injury resulting from trauma: Rationale, design, and methodology of a two-site randomized controlled trial, 2020, Contemporary Clinical Trials
  • Processing of positive memories technique (PPMT) for posttraumatic stress disorder: A primer, 2020, Journal of Psychotherapy Integration

Their frequent coauthors include Sonya B. Norman, Paula P. Schnurr, Christy Capone, Mascha van 't Wout-Frank, and Benjamin D. Greenberg, indicating collaboration with established researchers in trauma and mental health therapy development.

M. Tracie Shea's research has been published in various venues with Contemporary Clinical Trials being the most recurrent, followed by JAMA Psychiatry, Depression and Anxiety, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, and Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface. These journals reflect a focus on clinical trials, psychiatry, trauma, and neuromodulation technologies.

The combination of clinical psychology and psychiatry fields, along with their focus on PTSD and related interventions such as trauma-informed guilt reduction and neurostimulation methods, highlights Shea's interdisciplinary approach to addressing mental health conditions and trauma response mechanisms.

Best Publications

  • National Institute of Mental Health Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program. General effectiveness of treatments.

    Irene Elkin;M. Tracie Shea;John T. Watkins;Stanley D. Imber

  • Influence of Psychiatric Comorbidity on Recovery and Recurrence in Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, and Panic Disorder: A 12-Year Prospective Study

    Steven E. Bruce;Kimberly A. Yonkers;Michael W. Otto;Jane L. Eisen

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Paula P. Schnurr;Matthew J. Friedman;Charles C. Engel;Edna B. Foa

  • 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

  • Some conceptual and statistical issues in analysis of longitudinal psychiatric data. Application to the NIMH treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program dataset.

    Robert D. Gibbons;Donald R. Hedeker;Irene Elkin;Christine Waternaux

  • Ten-Year Course of Borderline Personality Disorder: Psychopathology and Function From the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study

    John G Gunderson;Robert L. Stout;Thomas H. McGlashan;M. Tracie Shea;M. Tracie Shea

  • 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

  • Patient Predictors of Response to Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy: Findings in the NIMH Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program

    Stuart M. Sotsky;David R. Glass;M. Tracie Shea;Paul A. Pilkonis

  • Course of depressive symptoms over follow-up. Findings from the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program.

    M. Tracie Shea;Irene Elkin;Stanley D. Imber;Stuart M. Sotsky

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

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

  • Childhood maltreatment associated with adult personality disorders: findings from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study

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

  • Randomized Trial of Trauma-Focused Group Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Results From a Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study

    Paula P. Schnurr;Matthew J. Friedman;David W. Foy;M. Tracie Shea

  • The relationship between dissociative symptoms, alexithymia, impulsivity, sexual abuse, and self-mutilation

    Caron Zlotnick;Caron Zlotnick;M.Tracie Shea;M.Tracie Shea;Teri Pearlstein;Teri Pearlstein;Elizabeth Simpson;Elizabeth Simpson

  • 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

  • Initial Severity and Differential Treatment Outcome in the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program

    Irene Elkin;Robert D. Gibbons;M. Tracie Shea;Stuart M. Sotsky

  • Personality Assessment in DSM--5: Empirical support for rating Severity, Style, and Traits

    Christopher J. Hopwood;Johanna C. Malone;Emily B. Ansell;Charles A. Sanislow

  • 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

  • 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

  • Randomized Trial of Trauma-Focused Group Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Paula P. Schnurr;Matthew J. Friedman;David W. Foy;M. Tracie Shea

Frequent Co-Authors

John G. Gunderson
John G. Gunderson Harvard University
Carlos M. Grilo
Carlos M. Grilo Yale University
Charles A. Sanislow
Charles A. Sanislow Wesleyan University
Thomas H. McGlashan
Thomas H. McGlashan Yale University
Mary C. Zanarini
Mary C. Zanarini Harvard University
Leslie C. Morey
Leslie C. Morey Texas A&M University
Shirley Yen
Shirley Yen Harvard Medical School
Andrew E. Skodol
Andrew E. Skodol University of Arizona
Robert L. Stout
Robert L. Stout Brown University
Donna S. Bender
Donna S. Bender Tulane University

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