NASSPD.NEABPD Conference in Boston, Mass, April 4,5, 6th 2014 and Yale NEABPD Conference in New Haven, CT, May 9th 2014.

Click the links below to view the videos from the 2013 conference.

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[wptabtitle]Dialectical Behavior Therapy – Charles Swenson, MD[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]Multiple Family Group Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]Item level analyses of BPD in three age cohorts[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]Parent-Child Transactional Processes and Affective Functioning in Adolescent Girls[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]Oxytocin Haplotypes and Attachment/Aggression in Borderline Personality Disorder[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]Discussant: Larry Seiver[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Maintain Borderline Personality Disorder Features[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]Masochistic Character (Self-defeating PD)[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]Narcissistic Personality Disorder – DSM 5 and Treatment Implications[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]Comparison of Affective Instability in BPD and BD Using a Self-Report Measure[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]Abnormal Affective Startle Habituation to Cue-Specific Unpleasant Pictures in BPD[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]Facial Emotion Recognition in BPD: Findings of a Meta-Analysis and a Study of Emotional Acuity[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]Physical Pain in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]Stepped Care as an Alternative to Extended Treatment for Patients with BPD[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]Therapy for BPD[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]A Meta-Structural Model of Psychopathology[/wptabtitle]
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[wptabtitle]The longitudinal association of five-factor model traits and BPD symptoms over 16 years[/wptabtitle]
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Conference Schedule:
Saturday, April 20, 2013

Mary C. Zanarini, EdD – President, NASSPD Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Perry Hoffman, PhD – Personality Disorders Over the Lifespan President, NEABPD

Charles Swenson, MD – Master Clinician Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical College

Therapy I

Nancee Blum, MSWSSocial Work Specialist & Adjunct Clinical Faculty, University of Iowa
“STEPPS Treatment Program for Borderline Personality Disorder”

Kim L. Gratz, PhD – Associate Professor, University of Mississippi Medical Center
“Randomized Controlled Trial and 9-month Follow-up of Emotion Regulation Group Therapy for Self-harm among Women with Borderline Personality Pathology”

Maria Elena Ridolfi, MD – Fano Department of Mental Health
“Multiple Family Group Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder: Implementation of a Psychoeducational Approach for Families in Italy”

Personality Disorders Over the Lifespan

Carla Sharp, PhD – Associate Professor, University of Houston
“Item level analyses of BPD in three age cohorts: Evidence for a unidimensional factor structure and gender equivalence”

Lori N. Scott, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
“Parent-Child Transactional Processes and Affective Functioning in Adolescent Girls with Borderline Personality Disorder Features”

Diana Whalen – Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pittsburgh
“Daily Affect in Adolescent Girls with Features of Borderline Personality Disorder”

Jennifer L. Tackett, PhD – Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Houston
“Extending the Dual-Hormone Hypothesis of Testosterone and Cortisol to the Domain of Adolescent Personality Pathology”

C. Emily Durbin, PhD – Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Michigan State University
“Observer Ratings of Behavior During Marital and Parent-Child Interactions are Associated with PD Traits”

Neuroimaging

Harold W. Koenigsberg, MD – Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
“Anomalous Insula – Amygdala Functional Connectivity in Borderline Personality Disorder Patients is Associated with Impaired Psychological Habituation”

Marianne S. Goodman, MD – Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and James J. Peters VA Medical Center
“Increased Amygdala Activity & Affective Startle Predicts DBT Treatment Response in BPD”

Jill M. Hooley, D.Phil – Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
“The Processing of Praise in Borderline Personality Disorder”

Genes

Brian Hicks, PhD – Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan
“Genetic influences on the link between childhood personality and the course of antisocial and borderline personality disorder”

Antonia S. New, MD – Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Mood and Personality Disorders, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
“Oxytocin Haplotypes and Attachment/Aggression in Borderline Personality Disorder”

Discussant: Larry J. Siever, MD – Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Research Findings in Borderline Personality Disorder

Michelle M. Wedig, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital
“Predictors of Suicide Threats in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder Over 16 Years of Prospective Follow-up”

Stephanie D. Stepp, PhD – Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
“Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Maintain Borderline Personality Disorder Features”

Anthony Bateman, MD – Master Clinician, Consultant Psychiatrist, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Visiting Professor, University College London

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Frank Yeomans, MD, PhD – Master Clinician, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

Other Personality Disorders/Axis I

J. Christopher Perry, MD – Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University
“Masochistic Character (Self-defeating PD): An Empirical Examination of Descriptive and Dynamic Psychopathology”

Anthony Pinto, PhD – Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute
“Capacity to Delay Reward Differentiates Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder”

Elsa F. Ronningstam, PhD – Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital
“Narcissistic Personality Disorder – DSM 5 and Treatment Implications”

D. Bradford Reich, MD – Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
“Comparison of Affective Instability in Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder Using a Self-Report Measure”

Biology

Joseph Beeney, MS – PhD Candidate, Penn State
“Differences in EEG Asymmetry and Aggression in Borderline Personality Disorder and Major Depression Following Rejection”

Erin A. Hazlett, PhDResearch Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and James J. Peters VA Medical Center
“Abnormal Affective Startle Habituation to Cue-Specific Unpleasant Pictures in Borderline Personality Disorder”

Anthony C. Ruocco, PhD – Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
“Facial Emotion Recognition in Borderline Personality Disorder: Findings of a Meta-Analysis and a Study of Emotional Acuity”

Robert Biskin, MDCM – Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University
“Physical Pain in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder”

Therapy II

Joel Paris, MD – Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
“Stepped Care as an Alternative to Extended Treatment for Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder”

Kenneth Levy, PhD – Associate Professor of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University
“The Outcome of Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Meta-Analysis”

Discussant: Eric Plakun, MD – Director of Admissions and Professional Relations, Austen Riggs Center

Diagnosis I

Aidan G.C. Wright, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
“A Meta-Structural Model of Psychopathology: Integrating Axis I, Axis II, and Pathological Trait Models”

Lee Anna Clark, PhD – William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Professor of Psychology, University of Notre Dame
“Three Components of PD Diagnosis: Personality Traits, Personality Functioning, and Psychosocial Disability”

Christopher J. Hopwood, PhD – Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Michigan State University
“The longitudinal association of five-factor model traits and borderline personality disorder symptoms over 16 years”

Jared DeFife, PhD – Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
“Multifaceted Validation of Dimensional Personality Disorder Assessment with the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP-II)”

Drew Westen, PhD – Professor of Psychology, Emory University
“Comparing Alternative Approaches to Personality Diagnosis: What Best Predicts Life Functioning?”

Discussant: Mark Zimmerman, MD – Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Brown University

John Gunderson, MD – Master Clinician, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

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