In press

Ha, C., Madan, A., Ph.D., MPH, Long, T., & Sharp, C. (in press). An examination of incentive strategies to increase participation in outcomes research for an adolescent inpatient unit. Journal of Psychiatric Practice.

Jacobsen, M.N., Ha, C., & Sharp, C. (in press). A mentalization-based treatment approach to caring for youth in foster care. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy.

Jardin, C., Garey, L., Sharp, C., & Zvolensky, M. J. (in press). Acculturative stress and risky sexual behavior: The roles of sexual compulsivity and negative affect. Behavior Modification.

Jardin, C., Venta, A., Newlin, E., Ibarra, S., & Sharp, C. (in press). Secure attachment moderates the relation of sexual trauma with trauma symptoms among adolescents from an inpatient psychiatric facility. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

McMakin, D.L. & Alfano, C.A. (2015). Sleep and Anxiety from Childhood to Early Adolescence. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 28, 483-489.

Reynolds, K.C. & Alfano, C.A. (in press).  Things that go bump in the night: frequency and predictors of nightmares in anxious and non-anxious children. Behavioral Sleep Medicine.

Sharp, C. & Mellick, W. (in press). Childhood Depression. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development. 

Venta, A. & Sharp, C. (In press). Extending the social information processing model of attachment to the peer problems of inpatient adolescents. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy.

Vincent, J.P., Stewart, A.K., Hays, J.R., & Burris Garner, E.A. (in press).  Mental health evaluations and treatment in the civil courts: Current standards of practice. In J. Salyards (Ed), The Improvement of the Administration of Justice, 8th Ed. American Bar Association: Chicago, Il.

Espil, F. M., Viana, A. G., & Dixon, L. J. (in press). Posttraumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms among inpatient adolescents: The underlying role of emotion regulation. Residential Treatment of Children and Youth.

Lim, C. S., Espil, F. M., Viana, A. G., & Janicke, D. M. (in press). Associations between child anxiety symptoms and child and family factors in pediatric obesity. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.

Viana, A. G., & Stevens, E. N. (in press). Parental threatening behaviors and offspring substance use: The moderating role of anxiety sensitivity. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Use.

2017

Cowie, J., Clementi, M.A., & Alfano, C.A. (2017). Examination of the intolerance of uncertainty construct in youth with generalized anxiety disorder.

Kalpakci, A., Vanwoerden, S., Sharp, C. (2017). Personality Disorders. In M. Pissacroia (ed.), Textbook of Adolescent Psychopathology, 2nd Edition. Piccin.

2016

Alfano, C. A., Lau, S., Balderas, J., Bunnell, B. E., & Beidel, D. C. (2016). The impact of military deployment on children: Placing developmental risk in context. Clinical Psychology Review, 43, 17-29.

Clementi, M.A., Alfano, C.A., Holly, L.E., & Pina, A.A. (2016). Sleep-related outcomes following early intervention for childhood anxiety.

Kalpakci, A., Vanwoerden, S., Elhai, J. D., & Sharp, C. (2016). The Independent Contributions of Emotion Dysregulation and Hypermentalization to the "Double Dissociation" of Affective and Cognitive Empathy in Female Adolescent Inpatients With BPD. Journal of personality disorders, 30(2), 242-260.

Madan, A., Sharp, C., Newlin, E., Vanwoerden, S., & Fowler, J. C. (2016). Adolescents are less satisfied with inpatient psychiatric care than their parents: does it matter? Journal for Healthcare Quality, 34(4): e19-e28.

Mellick, W. & Sharp, C. (2016). Mental state decoding in adolescent boys with major depressive disorder versus sex-matched healthy controls. Psychopathology.

Paulus, D. J., Vanwoerden, S., Norton, P. J., & Sharp, C. (2016). Emotion dysregulation, psychological inflexibility, and shame as explanatory factors between neuroticism and depression. Journal of affective disorders, 190, 376-385.

Paulus, D. J., Vanwoerden, S., Norton, P. J., & Sharp, C. (2016). From neuroticism to anxiety: Examining unique contributions of three transdiagnostic vulnerability factors. Personality and Individual Differences, 94, 38-43.

Reynolds, K.C., & Alfano, C.A. (2016). Childhood Bedtime Problems Predict Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms through Intermediary Emotional Reactivity. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 41(3). doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsw014

Sharp, C., Venta, A., Vanwoerden, S., Schramm, A., Ha, C., Newlin, E., ... & Fonagy, P. (2016). First empirical evaluation of the link between attachment, social cognition and borderline features in adolescents. Comprehensive psychiatry, 64, 4-11.

Venta, A., Hatkevich, C., Mellick, W., Vanwoerden, S., & Sharp, C. (2016). Social cognition mediates the relationship between attachment schemas and post-traumatic stress disorder.

2015

Alfano, C.A. Patriquin, M. & De Los Reyes, A. (2015). Subjective – Objective Sleep Comparisons and Discrepancies among Clinically-Anxious and Healthy Children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43, 1343-1353.

Britton, J.C., Suway, J., Clementi, M.A., Fox, N.A., Pine, D.S., & Bar-Haim, Y. (2015). Neural changes with Attention Bias Modification (ABM) for anxiety: A randomized trial. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(7), 913-920.

Buitron, V., Hill, R.M., Pettit, J.W., Green, K.L., Hatkevich, C., & Sharp, C. (2015). Interpersonal stress and suicidal ideation in adolescence: An indirect association through perceived burdensomeness toward others. Journal of Affective Disorders, 190, 143-149.

Cowie, J. Palmer, C.A., Hussain, H., & Alfano, C.A. (2015). Parental Involvement in Infant Sleep Routines Predicts Differential Sleep Patterns in Children With and Without Anxiety Disorders. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 1-11.

De Los Reyes, A., Alfano, C.A., Lau, S., Augenstein, T.M., & Borelli, J.L. (2015). Can we use convergence between caregiver reports of adolescent mental health to index severity of adolescent mental health concerns? Journal of Child and Family Studies, 24(6).

Fowler, J. C., Sharp, C., Kalpakci, A., Madan, A., Clapp, J., Allen, J. G., Frueh, B. C., & Oldham, J. M. (2015). A dimensional approach to personality trait domains: Examining personality trait domains utilizing DSM-IV personality disorder criteria. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 56, 75-84.

Kalpakci, A. & Sharp, C. (2015). Assessing for Personality Disorders in the African American Client. Guide to Psychological Assessment with African Americans. In L. T. Benuto and B. D. Leany (Eds.) Guide to Psychological Assessment with African Americans (pp. 217-236). New York: Springer.

Mellick, W., Sharp, C., & Ernst, M. (2015). Neuroeconomics for the study of social cognition in adolescent depression. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 22(3), 255-276.

Mellick, W., Kalpakci, A., & Sharp, C. (2015). Current maternal depression moderates the relation between critical expressed emotion in mothers and depressive symptoms in their adolescent daughters. Psychiatry Research, 227, 224-229.

Potthoff, A., & Babcock, J. (2015) Relationship satisfaction as a mediator of abuse and commitment. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, 24, 68-83.

Reuter, T.R., Sharp, C., Kalpakci, A. H., Choi, H.J., & Temple, J.R. (2015). Sexual orientation and borderline personality disorder features in a community sample of adolescents. Journal of Personality Disorders, 29(6), 1-14.

Reuter, T.R., Sharp, C., Temple, J.R., & Babcock, J.C. (2015). The relation between borderline personality disorder features and teen dating violence. Psychology of Violence, 5(2), 163-173.

Reuter, T.R., Sharp, C., & Temple, J.R. (2015). An exploratory study of teen dating violence in sexual minority youth. Partner Abuse, 6(1), 8-28.

Reynolds, K.C., Gradisar, M. & Alfano, C.A. (2015). Sleep in children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Sleep Medicine Clinics, 10(2), 133-141.

Sharp, C., & Kalpakci, A. (2015). Mentalization in borderline personality disorder: From bench to bedside. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 6(4), 347.

Sharp, C., & Kalpakci, A. (2015). If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck: Evaluating the validity of borderline personality disorder in adolescents. Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychology.

Sharp, C. & Vanwoerden, S. (2015). Hypermentalizing in borderline personality disorder: A model and some data. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 14(1), 33-45.

Sharp, C., Vanwoerden, S., Van Baardewijk, Y., Tackett, J. L., & Stegge, H. (2015). Callous-Unemotional Traits Are Associated with Deficits in Recognizing Complex Emotions in Preadolescent Children. Journal of Personality Disorders, 29(3): 347-359.

Ugur, M., Shastri, D., Tsiamyrtzis, P., Dcosta, M., Kalpakci, A., Sharp, C., & Pavlidis, P. (2015). Evaluating smartphone-based user interface designs for a 2D psychological questionnaire. Association for Computing Machinery: Digital Library.

Vanwoerden, S., Kalpakci, A., & Sharp, C. (2015). Experiential avoidance mediates the link between maternal attachment style and theory of mind. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 57, 117-124.

Venta, A., Sharp, C., Shmueli-Goetz, Y., & Newlin, E. (2015). An evaluation of the construct of earned security in adolescents: Evidence from an inpatient sample. Bulletin of The Menninger Clinic, 79(1), 41-69.

Ebesutani, C. K., Fierstein, M., Viana, A. G., Trent, L., Sprung, M., & Young, J. (2015). The role of loneliness in the relationship between anxiety and depression in clinical and school-based youth. Psychology in the Schools, 223-234.

2014

Alfano, C.A., Reddy, R., Reynolds, K.C., Pane, H., Reuter, T.R., & Sharp, C. (2014). Poor sleep quality is associated with decreased emotional arousal in healthy girls. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 5(2), 168-177.

Alfano, C. A. & Lau, S. (2014). Sleep disorders. In D. C. Beidel, B. C. Frueh, & Hersen, M. (Eds,), Adult psychopathology and diagnosis, 7th Edition (2014). Hoboken, N.J., John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Clementi, M.A., & Alfano. C.A. (2014). Targeted Behavioral Therapy for childhood generalized anxiety disorder: Time-series analyses of anxiety and sleep. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 28(2), 215-222.

Clementi, M.A, Balderas, J., Cowie, J., & Alfano. C.A. (2014). Treatment of Childhood Insomnia and Nighttime Fears. In C. Alfano, & D. Beidel (Eds.), Comprehensive Evidence-Based Interventions for School-aged Children and Adolescents. Wiley; Hoboken, NJ.

Cowie, J., Alfano, C.A., Patriquin, M.A., Reynolds, K.C., Talavera, D., & Clementi, M.A. (2014). Addressing sleep in children with anxiety disorders. Sleep Medicine Clinics, 9(2), 137-148.

Cowie, J., Clementi, M.A., Beidel, D. & Alfano, C.A. (2014). Obsessive-compulsive disorder and trichotillomania. In C. Alfano & D. Beidel (Eds.), Comprehensive Evidence-Based Interventions for School-Aged Children and Adolescents. Wiley: Hoboken, NJ.

Clementi, M.A., Balderas, J., Cowie, J. & Alfano, C.A. (2014).  Behavioral treatment of childhood insomnia. In C. Alfano & D. Beidel (Eds.), Comprehensive Evidence-Based Interventions for School-Aged Children and Adolescents.  Wiley: Hoboken, NJ.

Ha, C., Balderas, J., Zanarini, M., Oldham, J., & Sharp, C. (2014).  Psychiatric comorbidity in Hospitalized Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 75(5), e457-64.

Kalpakci, A., Venta, A., & Sharp, C. (2014). Beliefs about unmet interpersonal needs mediate the relation between conflictual family relations and borderline personality features in young adult females. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 1, 1-7.

Mellick, W., Sharp, C., & Alfano, C. (2014). The role of BIS/BAS in the vulnerability to depression in adolescent girls. Personality and Individual Differences, 69, 17-21.

Sharp, C., Kim, S., Herman, L., Pane, H., Reuter, T.R., & Strathearn, L. (2014). Major depression in mothers predicts reduced ventral striatum activation in adolescent female offspring, with and without depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 123(2), 298-309.

Sharp, C., Kalpakci, A., Mellick, W., Venta, A., & Temple, J. R. (2014). First evidence of a prospective relation between avoidance of internal states and borderline personality disorder features in adolescents. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 24(3), 283-290.

Sharp, C., & Vanwoerden, S. (2014). The developmental building blocks of psychopathic traits: Revisiting the role for theory of mind. Journal of Personality Disorders, 28(1): 78-95.

Sharp, C., Venta, A., Marais, L., Skinner, D., Lenka, M., & Serekoane, J. (2014). First evaluation of a population-based screen to detect emotional-behavior disorders in orphaned children in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS and Behavior, 18, 1174-1185.

Noblin, J. L., Venta, A., & Sharp, C. (2014). The validity of the MSI-BPD among inpatient adolescents. Assessment, 21(2), 210-217.

Venta, A., Mellick, W., Schatte, D., & Sharp, C. (2014). Preliminary evidence that thoughts of thwarted belongingness mediate the relations between level of attachment insecurity and depression and suicide-related thoughts in inpatient adolescents. Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology, 33(5), 428-447.

Venta, A., Shmueli-Goetz, Y., & Sharp, C. (2014). Assessing attachment in adolescence: A psychometric study of the Child Attachment Interview. Psychological Assessment, 26(1), 238-255.

Venta, A., Sharp, C., & Newlin, E. (2014). A descriptive study of symptom change as a function of attachment and emotion regulation in a naturalistic adolescent inpatient setting. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 24(1), 95-104.

Venta, A., & Sharp, C. (2014). Attachment organization in suicide prevention research: Preliminary findings and future directions in a sample of inpatient adolescents. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 35(1), 60.

Dixon, L. J., Stevens, E. N., & Viana, A. G. (2014). Anxiety sensitivity as a moderator of the relationship between trait anxiety and illicit substance use. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 28, 1284-1289.