I have two areas of NIH-funded research. The first area is the assessment of interpersonal functioning, emotion regulation, and the reciprocal relationships between the two in patients with personality disorders, especially borderline personality disorder. The second area focuses on the development and validation of new assessment tools for measuring health-related constructs (both medical and psychiatric) such as emotional distress (depression, anxiety, and anger), sleep-wake function, and alcohol and substance use using item banks calibrated with models from item response theory (IRT) and implemented as computerized adaptive tests. This work has been supported by an NIH Common Fund initiative—the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS)—and affiliated projects. For the ACE grant, I will be collaborating on Project 1, Suicidality in Autistic Adults: Self-Report Development and Trajectories, in which we propose to develop a measure of suicidality for autistic adults, the Autism Suicidality Inventory, that will capture a continuum of suicide risk.
- Stanford University, PhD Psychology - 1976