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98
Citations
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World Ranking
666
National Ranking
423

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville
  • 2014 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Marsha M. Linehan is primarily affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research is situated mainly within the field of psychology, with a strong focus on clinical psychology. Related subfields include cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, physiology, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their scientific work encompasses several key topics:

  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Among recent publications, the following papers illustrate the scope of their research:

  • "Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Suicidal Self-Harming Youth: Emotion Regulation, Mechanisms, and Mediators" (2021), published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • "Sleep in youth with repeated self-harm and high suicidality: Does sleep predict self-harm risk?" (2020), appearing in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • "Modeling the suicidal behavior cycle: Understanding repeated suicide attempts among individuals with borderline personality disorder and a history of attempting suicide." (2020), published in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • "Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder and Secondary Effects on Somatization" (2020), featured in Journal of Personality Disorders
  • "Behavioral Assessment in DBT: Commentary on the Special Series" (2020), published in Cognitive and Behavioral Practice

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Michele Berk
  • Molly Adrian
  • Elizabeth McCauley
  • Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow
  • Jamie Bedics

Publications have appeared repeatedly in certain venues, indicating a specialized focus in these journals:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (2 publications)
  • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior (1 publication)
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (1 publication)
  • Journal of Personality Disorders (1 publication)
  • Cognitive and Behavioral Practice (1 publication)

Marsha M. Linehan has received several awards, including:

  • Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville (2017)
  • James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (2014)
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) (1996)

Best Publications

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

    Marsha M. Linehan

  • Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder

    Marsha M. Linehan

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Chronically Parasuicidal Borderline Patients

    Marsha M. Linehan;Hubert E. Armstrong;Alejandra Suarez;Douglas Allmon

  • Two-Year Randomized Controlled Trial and Follow-up of Dialectical Behavior Therapy vs Therapy by Experts for Suicidal Behaviors and Borderline Personality Disorder

    Marsha M. Linehan;Katherine Anne Comtois;Angela M. Murray;Milton Z. Brown

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder and Drug-Dependence

    Marsha M. Linehan;Henry Schmidt;Linda A. Dimeff;J. Christopher Craft

  • A biosocial developmental model of borderline personality: Elaborating and extending Linehan's theory.

    Sheila E. Crowell;Theodore P. Beauchaine;Marsha M. Linehan

  • Mindfulness and acceptance: Expanding the cognitive-behavioral tradition.

    Steven C. Hayes;Victoria M. Follette;Marsha M. Linehan

  • SeminarBorderline personality disorder

    Klaus Lieb;Mary C Zanarini;Christian Schmahl;Marsha M Linehan

  • Reasons for Staying Alive When You Are Thinking of Killing Yourself: The Reasons for Living Inventory

    Marsha M. Linehan;Judith L. Goodstein;Stevan L. Nielsen;John A. Chiles

  • Naturalistic follow-up of a behavioral treatment for chronically parasuicidal borderline patients.

    Marsha M. Linehan;Heidi L. Heard;Hubert E. Armstrong

  • DBT Skills Training: Manual

    Marsha M. Linehan

  • Dialectical behavior therapy for binge eating disorder.

    Christy F. Telch;W. Stewart Agras;Marsha M. Linehan

  • Reasons for suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injury in women with borderline personality disorder.

    Milton Z. Brown;Katherine Anne Comtois;Marsha M. Linehan

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents

    Alec L. Miller;Jill H. Rathus;Marsha M. Linehan

  • Dialectical behavior therapy versus comprehensive validation therapy plus 12-step for the treatment of opioid dependent women meeting criteria for borderline personality disorder.

    Marsha M Linehan;Linda A Dimeff;Sarah K Reynolds;Katherine Anne Comtois

  • Mechanisms of change in dialectical behavior therapy: theoretical and empirical observations.

    Thomas R. Lynch;Alexander L. Chapman;M. Zachary Rosenthal;Janice R. Kuo

  • Reasons for staying alive when you are thinking of killing yourself

    Marsha M. Linehan;Judith L. Goodstein;Stevan L. Nielsen;John A. Chiles

  • Effectiveness of inpatient dialectical behavioral therapy for borderline personality disorder: a controlled trial.

    Martin Bohus;Brigitte Haaf;Timothy Simms;Matthias F. Limberger

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

    Thomas R. Lynch;William T. Trost;Nicholas Salsman;Marsha M. Linehan

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy for High Suicide Risk in Individuals With Borderline Personality Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial and Component Analysis

    Marsha M. Linehan;Kathryn E. Korslund;Melanie S. Harned;Robert J. Gallop

  • Interpersonal outcome of cognitive behavioral treatment for chronically suicidal borderline patients

    Marsha M. Linehan;Darren A. Tutek;Heidi L. Heard;Hubert E. Armstrong

Frequent Co-Authors

Melanie S. Harned
Melanie S. Harned University of Washington
Katherine Anne Comtois
Katherine Anne Comtois University of Washington
Shireen L. Rizvi
Shireen L. Rizvi Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Thomas R. Lynch
Thomas R. Lynch University of Southampton
Elizabeth McCauley
Elizabeth McCauley University of Washington
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Robert Gallop
Robert Gallop West Chester University
Alexander L. Chapman
Alexander L. Chapman Simon Fraser University
Augustine Osman
Augustine Osman The University of Texas at San Antonio
Azucena García-Palacios
Azucena García-Palacios Jaume I University

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