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Overview

Shelley McMain is affiliated with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and medicine, with significant contributions in clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health.

Their work covers various topics, including:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy

McMain has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently publishing research in:

  • Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
  • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Health Expectations

Notable recent papers by McMain include:

  • The Effectiveness of 6 versus 12 Months of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Noninferiority Randomized Clinical Trial, 2022, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

They have frequently collaborated with several co-authors, such as:

  • Tony Rousmaniere
  • Alexandre Fernández Vaz
  • Tali Boritz
  • Anne Sonley
  • Uëli Kramer

In addition to journal articles, McMain has published books through the American Psychological Association, including:

  • Understanding mechanisms of change in psychotherapies for personality disorders, 2024
  • Deliberate practice in dialectical behavior therapy, 2022

Best Publications

  • A randomized trial of dialectical behavior therapy versus general psychiatric management for borderline personality disorder.

    Shelley F. McMain;Paul S. Links;William H. Gnam;Tim Guimond

  • An Information-Processing Analysis of Mindfulness: Implications for Relapse Prevention in the Treatment of Substance Abuse

    F. Curtis Breslin;Martin Zack;Shelley McMain

  • Dysfunctional Attitudes and 5-HT2 Receptors During Depression and Self-Harm

    Jeffrey H. Meyer;Shelley McMain;Sidney H. Kennedy;Lorne Korman

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy Compared With General Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder: Clinical Outcomes and Functioning Over a 2-Year Follow-Up

    Shelley F. McMain;Tim Guimond;David L. Streiner;Robert J. Cardish

  • Neural correlates of negative emotionality in borderline personality disorder: an activation-likelihood-estimation meta-analysis.

    Anthony C. Ruocco;Sathya Amirthavasagam;Lois W. Choi-Kain;Shelley F. McMain

  • Dialectical behavior therapy and the treatment of emotion dysregulation.

    Shelley McMain;Lorne M. Korman;Linda Dimeff

  • Integrating Mindfulness Meditation with Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies: The Challenge of Combining Acceptance- and Change-Based Strategies:

    Mark A Lau;Shelley F McMain

  • Affective instability and suicidal ideation and behavior in patients with borderline personality disorder.

    Paul S. Links;Rahel Eynan;Marnin J. Heisel;Aiala Barr

  • A randomized trial of brief dialectical behaviour therapy skills training in suicidal patients suffering from borderline disorder.

    Shelley F. McMain;Tim Guimond;Tim Guimond;Ryan Barnhart;Ryan Barnhart;Liat Habinski

  • Association between serotonin transporter gene and borderline personality disorder.

    Xingqun Ni;Kirsten Chan;Natalie Bulgin;Tricia Sicard

  • The dimensions of dangerousness revisited: Assessing forensic predictions about violence.

    Robert Menzies;Christopher D. Webster;Shelley McMain;Shauna Staley

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy: Current status and future research directions

    Shelley McMain;Michelle G. Newman;Zindel V. Segal;Robert J. DeRubeis

  • Monoamine oxidase a gene is associated with borderline personality disorder.

    Xingqun Ni;Tricia Sicard;Natalie Bulgin;Ramprasad Bismil

  • Factors related to dropout from treatment in two outpatient treatments for borderline personality disorder.

    Susan Wnuk;Shelley McMain;Paul S Links;Liat Habinski

  • Serotonin genes and gene-gene interactions in borderline personality disorder in a matched case-control study.

    Xingqun Ni;David Chan;Kirsten Chan;Shelley McMain

  • A multi-method laboratory investigation of emotional reactivity and emotion regulation abilities in borderline personality disorder.

    Janice R. Kuo;Skye Fitzpatrick;Rebecca K. Metcalfe;Shelley McMain

  • An exploratory study of the relationship between changes in emotion and cognitive processes and treatment outcome in borderline personality disorder

    Shelley McMain;Paul S Links;Tim Guimond;Susan Wnuk

  • Fitness evaluations: a retrospective study of clinical criminal, and sociodemographic characteristics

    Richard Rogers;J. Roy Gillis;Shelley McMain;Susan E. Dickens

  • Advances in psychotherapy of personality disorders: a research update.

    Shelley McMain;Alberta E. Pos

  • The effectiveness of 6 versus 12-months of dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder: the feasibility of a shorter treatment and evaluating responses (FASTER) trial protocol.

    Shelley F. McMain;Shelley F. McMain;Alexander L. Chapman;Janice R. Kuo;Tim Guimond

  • The RelaTionship beTween agReeableness and The developmenT of The woRking alliance in paTienTs wiTh boRdeRline peRsonaliTy disoRdeR

    Jacob B. Hirsh;Lena C. Quilty;R. Michael Bagby;Shelley F. McMain

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul S. Links
Paul S. Links McMaster University
Anthony C. Ruocco
Anthony C. Ruocco University of Toronto
David L. Streiner
David L. Streiner University of Toronto
James L. Kennedy
James L. Kennedy Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Joanna Henderson
Joanna Henderson Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
R. Michael Bagby
R. Michael Bagby University of Toronto
Robert J. DeRubeis
Robert J. DeRubeis University of Pennsylvania
Michelle G. Newman
Michelle G. Newman Pennsylvania State University
Joseph H. Beitchman
Joseph H. Beitchman Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Zindel V. Segal
Zindel V. Segal University of Toronto

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