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Shirley Yen is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States and has a significant body of research primarily within the fields of Psychology and Medicine. Their scholarly work focuses extensively on Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental Health, with additional contributions to Speech and Hearing, Social Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research topics include:

  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Shirley Yen's most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Bipolar Disorders
  • Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Association of Borderline Personality Disorder Criteria With Suicide Attempts" (2020, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • "A daily diary study of minority stressors, suicidal ideation, nonsuicidal self-injury ideation, and affective mechanisms among sexual and gender minority youth." (2023, Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science)
  • "Relationship between cognitive flexibility and subsequent course of mood symptoms and suicidal ideation in young adults with childhood-onset bipolar disorder" (2021, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
  • "The Digital Clinic: An Innovative Mental Health Care Delivery Model Utilizing Hybrid Synchronous and Asynchronous Treatment" (2023, NEJM Catalyst)
  • "Study Protocol: A randomized controlled trial of suicide risk reduction in the year following jail release (the SPIRIT Trial)" (2020, Contemporary Clinical Trials)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Heather Hower
  • Martin B. Keller
  • Benjamin I. Goldstein
  • Boris Birmaher
  • Tina R. Goldstein

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Four-year longitudinal course of children and adolescents with bipolar spectrum disorders: the Course and Outcome of Bipolar Youth (COBY) study.

    Boris Birmaher;David Axelson;Benjamin Goldstein;Michael Strober

  • 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

  • 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

  • Borderline Personality Disorder Criteria Associated With Prospectively Observed Suicidal Behavior

    Shirley Yen;M. Tracie Shea;Charles A. Sanislow;Carlos M. Grilo

  • Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in body dysmorphic disorder.

    Katharine A. Phillips;Meredith E. Coles;William Menard;Shirley Yen

  • 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

  • Two-Year Stability and Change of Schizotypal, Borderline, Avoidant, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders

    Carlos M. Grilo;Charles A. Sanislow;John G. Gunderson;Maria E. Pagano

  • Four-Year Longitudinal Course of Children and Adolescents With Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: The Course and Outcome of Bipolar Youth (COBY) Study

    Boris Birmaher;David Axelson;Benjamin Goldstein;Michael Strober

  • 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

  • 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

  • Course of Subthreshold Bipolar Disorder in Youth: Diagnostic Progression From Bipolar Disorder Not Otherwise Specified

    David A. Axelson;Boris Birmaher;Michael A. Strober;Benjamin I. Goldstein

  • A cross-cultural comparison of depressive symptom manifestation: China and the United States.

    Shirley Yen;Clive J. Robins;Nan Lin

  • Descriptive and longitudinal observations on the relationship of borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder.

    John G. Gunderson;Igor Weinberg;Maria T. Daversa;Karsten D. Kueppenbender

  • Affect regulation in women with borderline personality disorder traits.

    Shirley Yen;Caron Zlotnick;Ellen Costello

  • Comparison of alternative models for personality disorders

    Leslie C. Morey;Christopher J. Hopwood;John G. Gunderson;Andrew E. Skodol

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos M. Grilo
Carlos M. Grilo Yale University
John G. Gunderson
John G. Gunderson Harvard University
Charles A. Sanislow
Charles A. Sanislow Wesleyan University
M. Tracie Shea
M. Tracie Shea Brown University
Mary C. Zanarini
Mary C. Zanarini Harvard University
Leslie C. Morey
Leslie C. Morey Texas A&M University
Andrew E. Skodol
Andrew E. Skodol University of Arizona
Tina R. Goldstein
Tina R. Goldstein University of Pittsburgh
Boris Birmaher
Boris Birmaher University of Pittsburgh
Robert L. Stout
Robert L. Stout Brown University

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