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Stability of borderline personality disorder features in girlsStephanie D Stepp
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Pers Disord 24:460-72. 2010..71-.85) and moderately high for teacher factor scores (r ranging from .49-.77). These findings suggest that underlying dimensions of BPD features can be reliably measured and are stable in 6-12-year-old girls...- Item banks for alcohol use from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS(®)): Use, consequences, and expectanciesPaul A Pilkonis
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States Electronic address
Drug Alcohol Depend 130:167-77. 2013.... - Assessment of self-reported negative affect in the NIH ToolboxPaul A Pilkonis
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Psychiatry Res 206:88-97. 2013.... - Item banks for measuring emotional distress from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®): depression, anxiety, and angerPaul A Pilkonis
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Assessment 18:263-83. 2011..Short forms consisting of seven to eight items provided information comparable to legacy measures containing more items... - Addressing the challenges of a cross-national investigation: lessons from the Pittsburgh-Pisa study of treatment-relevant phenotypes of unipolar depressionEllen Frank
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Clin Trials 5:253-61. 2008..A multi-site clinical trial that includes psychotherapy as one of the treatments presents numerous challenges related to cross-site consistency and communication... - Anger, preoccupied attachment, and domain disorganization in borderline personality disorderJennifer Q Morse
Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
J Pers Disord 23:240-57. 2009..These results may suggest possible subtypes of BPD or possible mechanisms by which BPD traits are established and maintained... - Randomized trial of weekly, twice-monthly, and monthly interpersonal psychotherapy as maintenance treatment for women with recurrent depressionEllen Frank
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:761-7. 2007..The authors sought to determine whether a greater frequency of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) sessions during maintenance treatment has a greater prophylactic effect than a previously validated once-a-month treatment... - The role of attachment styles and interpersonal problems in suicide-related behaviorsStephanie D Stepp
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburg, PA 15213, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 38:592-607. 2008..These findings suggest the importance of distinguishing between these groups of behaviors in terms of etiological pathways, maintenance processes, and treatment interventions... 
Borderline personality and substance use in womenUlrike Feske
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Addict 15:131-7. 2006..Antisocial personality disorder generally yielded larger odds ratios than BPD and emerged as a partial mediator of the relation between BPD and SUD. Histrionic PD was the only other PD that showed meaningful relations with SUD...- Age-related differences in individual DSM criteria for borderline personality disorderStephanie D Stepp
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Pers Disord 22:427-32. 2008..These results demonstrate that older individuals with BPD report less impulsivity and fewer suicidal behaviors, although symptoms of distress persist... - The validity of the five-factor model prototypes for personality disorders in two clinical samplesJoshua D Miller
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychol Assess 16:310-22. 2004..In the 2nd sample (N = 132), the FFM PD similarity scores demonstrated excellent longitudinal stability and good predictive validity with regard to consensus ratings of PD features. The implications of these findings are discussed... - Psychiatric disorders among bariatric surgery candidates: relationship to obesity and functional health statusMelissa A Kalarchian
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:328-34; quiz 374. 2007..The present study was designed to document psychiatric disorders among candidates for weight loss surgery and to examine the relationship of psychopathology to degree of obesity and functional health status... - Training future generations of mental health researchers: devising strategies for tough timesCharles F Reynolds
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Acad Psychiatry 31:152-9. 2007.... - Impact of cluster C personality disorders on outcomes of acute and maintenance treatment in late-life depressionJennifer Q Morse
Personality Studies, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 13:808-14. 2005..Personality disorders (PDs) have been associated with poor treatment outcomes in acute treatments for late-life depression and with persistent functional impairment after recovery from an episode of depression... - Acute treatment outcomes in patients with bipolar I disorder and co-morbid borderline personality disorder receiving medication and psychotherapyHolly A Swartz
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Bipolar Disord 7:192-7. 2005.... - Symptom reports in severe chronic insomniaDouglas E Moul
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, PA 15213, USA
Sleep 25:553-63. 2002..To describe patterns and severities of the daytime and nighttime symptoms of chronic insomnia patients... - Interpersonal and emotional experiences of social interactions in borderline personality disorderStephanie D Stepp
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 197:484-91. 2009..GENERAL AIM: We examined interpersonal experiences of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) using a time-contingent diary procedure to collect information about social interactions for 7 days... - Self-report measures of insomnia in adults: rationales, choices, and needsDouglas E Moul
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Sleep and Chronobiology Center, University of Pittsburgh, Room E 1119, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Sleep Med Rev 8:177-98. 2004..An extensive table of currently available questionnaires is provided, and some needs for future questionnaire development are also identified... - Anger attacks in bipolar depression: predictors and response to citalopram added to mood stabilizersOommen K Mammen
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 65:627-33. 2004..We hypothesized that if anger attacks were related to hypomanic symptoms they would respond unfavorably to citalopram, whereas if they were related to trait anger or depressive symptoms they would respond favorably... - Five-factor model prototypes for personality disorders: the utility of self-reports and observer ratingsJoshua D Miller
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213, USA
Assessment 11:127-38. 2004..Other-reported information provides incremental utility in predicting impairment and interpersonal distress rated by clinicians and significant others... - Development and validation of patient-reported outcome measures for sleep disturbance and sleep-related impairmentsDaniel J Buysse
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA
Sleep 33:781-92. 2010.... - Clinical outcome of ECT in patients with major depression and comorbid borderline personality disorderUlrike Feske
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:2073-80. 2004..The authors compared the acute outcome of ECT in depressed patients with borderline personality disorder, with personality disorders other than borderline personality disorder, and with no personality disorder... - Screening for personality disordersJennifer Q Morse
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Pers Disord 21:179-98. 2007..Performance was best when predicting a more severe PD diagnosis in the psychiatric sample. The results also highlight the potential value of multiple assessments when relying on self-reports... - Social networks in borderline personality disorderAllan Clifton
Department of Psychology, Vassar College, Box 713, 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, USA
J Pers Disord 21:434-41. 2007..Results suggest deficits in social cognition for positive relations, but not for negative relations such as interpersonal conflict... - Role of perfectionism and personality disorder features in response to brief treatment for depressionGolan Shahar
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 71:629-33. 2003..Results highlight the central role played by patients' personality in the course of brief treatment for depression... - An application of item response theory to the DSM-III-R criteria for borderline personality disorderUlrike Feske
Center for Education and Drug Abuse Research, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
J Pers Disord 21:418-33. 2007..The general conclusion is that the criteria do represent a coherent syndrome and that further research on the informational value of the individual criteria would be useful... - A simplified technique for scoring DSM-IV personality disorders with the Five-Factor ModelJoshua D Miller
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Assessment 12:404-15. 2005..Given the ease of this scoring procedure, the FFM count technique has obvious clinical utility... - Differential functioning of the Beck depression inventory in late-life patients: use of item response theoryYookyung Kim
Department of Health and Community Systems, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
Psychol Aging 17:379-91. 2002..Adjusted cutoff scores in the late-life group are provided, and possible reasons for age-related differences in the performance of the BDI are discussed... - Verification of scale sub-domains in elderly patients with dementia: a confirmatory factor-analytic approachKari B Kastango
Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 10:706-14. 2002..CONCLUSION: Authors advocate the use of a confirmatory factor-analytic approach to verify scale sub-domains in other, more widely used rating scales for patients with dementia... - Negative affect and parental aggression in child physical abuseOommen K Mammen
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Child Abuse Negl 26:407-24. 2002..These findings also suggest that PTCA may have qualities of impulsive aggression, a form of aggression that is conceptualized as driven by negative affect, occurs in response to aversive events, and is not planned... - Self- and other-reports of traits from the five-factor model: relations to personality disorderJoshua D Miller
1. Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
J Personal Disord 19:400-19. 2005..The other-rated FFM scores also accounted for more variance in consensus ratings of impairment in the domains of romance, work, and social relations... - A comparison of the validity of the five-factor model (FFM) personality disorder prototypes. Using FFM self-report and interview measuresJoshua D Miller
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
Psychol Assess 17:497-500. 2005..Both sets of PD prototype scores demonstrated significant convergent validity with PD symptom counts, suggesting that the FFM PD prototype scores are appropriate for use with both sources of data... - Neuroticism and affective instability: the same or different?Joshua D Miller
Department of Psychology, Psychology Building, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:839-45. 2006..The purpose of this study was to examine the correlates and consequences of two constructs related to affective experience: neuroticism and affective instability... - Self-reported attachment, interpersonal aggression, and personality disorder in a prospective community sample of adolescents and adultsThomas N Crawford
Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY, USA
J Pers Disord 20:331-51. 2006..Interpersonal aggression was higher in Cluster B symptoms and lower in Cluster C symptoms, thus differentiating between these symptom clusters... - Treatment utilization and satisfaction: examining the contributions of Axis II psychopathology and the Five-Factor Model of personalityJoshua D Miller
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
J Pers Disord 20:369-87. 2006..e., FFM and PDs). It is argued that both types of personality information should be included in the initial treatment planning and implementation stages... - Evidence for a single latent class of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders borderline personality pathologyAllan Clifton
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Compr Psychiatry 48:70-8. 2007..Future research on subtypes of BPD may benefit by focusing on variables that supplement the DSM criteria... - Narcissistic personality disorder: relations with distress and functional impairmentJoshua D Miller
University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Compr Psychiatry 48:170-7. 2007..The behavior of narcissistic individuals ultimately leads to problems and distress for the narcissistic individuals and for those with whom they interact... - What's in a (neutral) face? Personality disorders, attachment styles, and the appraisal of ambiguous social cuesBjörn Meyer
The University of Surrey Roehampton, Whitelands College, West Hill, London, UK
J Pers Disord 18:320-36. 2004..Discussion highlights the potential of simultaneously studying biases in social information processing and attachment disturbances among individuals with personality disorders... - Efficiently assessing negative cognition in depression: an item response theory analysis of the Dysfunctional Attitude ScaleChristopher G Beevers
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 0187, USA
Psychol Assess 19:199-209. 2007..Taken together, the authors believe the DAS-SF1 and DAS-SF2 provide an efficient and accurate assessment of dysfunctional attitudes among depressed individuals... - Treatment expectancies, patient alliance, and outcome: further analyses from the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research ProgramBjörn Meyer
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803 5501, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 70:1051-5. 2002..None of the expectancy scales interacted with alliance ratings in the prediction of clinical improvement... - An examination of the factor structure of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, narcissistic personality disorder criteria: one or two factors?Joshua D Miller
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Compr Psychiatry 49:141-5. 2008..Given the broader research literature suggesting a 2-factor structure of narcissism, strategies for assessing both overt/grandiose and covert/vulnerable forms of narcissism in DSM-V are discussed...
Research Grants
- Interpersonal Functioning and Emotion in Borderline PersonalityPaul Pilkonis; Fiscal Year: 2007..The identification of such mechanisms is the best way forward to improved, evidence-based treatments that can address impairments in interpersonal functioning and emotion regulation in BPD at the level of day-to-day behavior. ..
- Psychiatric Symptoms and Social Functioning: IRT and DIF(RMI)Paul Pilkonis; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- TRAINING FUTURE GENERATIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCHERSPaul Pilkonis; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- CLINICAL RESEARCH TRAINING FOR PSYCHOLOGISTSPaul Pilkonis; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Interpersonal Functioning in Borderline PersonalityPaul Pilkonis; Fiscal Year: 2006..Identification of interpersonal risk factors will help achieve the long-term goal of not only knowing these patients well but also using this knowledge in sc ce-based therapies to improve their lives. ..
- SCREENING FOR PERSONALITY DISORDERSPaul Pilkonis; Fiscal Year: 2001....
- Interpersonal Functioning and Emotion in Borderline PersonalityPaul A Pilkonis; Fiscal Year: 2010..The identification of such mechanisms is the best way forward to improved, evidence-based treatments that can address impairments in interpersonal functioning and emotion regulation in BPD at the level of day-to-day behavior. ..