Clinical & Research Positions
The Adult Borderline Center and Training Institute at McLean HospitalThe Adult Borderline Center and Training Institute at McLean Hospital is now accepting applications for two postdoctoral positions that will begin in July of 2018. One of these programs will primarily be clinical and the other will primarily involve research. Both will require a doctoral degree from an APA accredited program in clinical psychology and both will be renewable for a second year.
The clinical position will involve work in a long-term residential settings and use a variety of evidence-based treatments for BPD. Training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Mentalization Based Treatment, and General Psychiatric Management will be offered.
The research position will involve participation in both new and well-established projects. This position is a platform for the development of the candidate’s own program of funded research and collaborations with a number of McLean faculty and external experts will be available to facilitate this transition to independence.
Clinical and Research Positions
The Adult Borderline Center
and Training Institute
at McLean Hospital
The Adult Borderline Center and Training Institute at McLean Hospital is now accepting applications for two postdoctoral positions that will begin in July of 2018. One of these programs will primarily be clinical and the other will primarily involve research. Both will require a doctoral degree from an APA accredited program in clinical psychology and both will be renewable for a second year.
The clinical position will involve work in a long-term residential settings and use a variety of evidence-based treatments for BPD. Training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Mentalization Based Treatment, and GeneralPsychiatric Management will be offered. The research position will involve participation in both new and well-established projects. This position is a platform for the development of the candidate’s own program of funded research and collaborations with a number of McLean faculty and external experts will be available to facilitate this transition to independence. Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and contact information for three references. Please submit this material at effinch@partners.org by January 30, 2018 to be considered for these positions.
Applications should include:
- a cover letter
- curriculum vitae
- contact information for three references
Please submit this material at effinch@partners.org by January 30, 2018 to be considered for these positions.
* McLean Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of McLean Hospital to affirmatively provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants for employment and existing employees without regard to their race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, ancestry, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender orientation or any other basis that would be in violation of any applicable law or regulation. A member of the Partners HealthCare System.
A BPD Brief
6 Module Online Free Course for Professionals
This education series was designed for professionals to learn basic principles for the diagnosis and treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. It is the result of a collaboration between Drs. Brian Palmer, Lois Choi-Kain, and John Gunderson. It was supported by a grant from the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder to help promote its mission to provide education and build awareness on BPD.
The series of six, 20-minute modules features videos of patients/families, interactive quizzes, narrated slides, and videos from a number of experts. The video clips were made possible by Dawkins Productions. They are all from the video series “If Only We Had Known: A Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder”.
The complete series can be ordered from bpdvideo.com
Call-in Series Archive
These 1-hour recordings are from a regular series sponsored by NEA.BPD. The format is a presentation from a mental health professional with expertise in BPD, followed by caller questions that are answered by the speaker. In many cases, hand-outs about the presentation are available.
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April 12, 2015 – Kenneth R. Silk, MD – How To Think About Medications In The Treatment Of BPD
March 29, 2015 – Diana Diamond, Ph.D. – Transference Focused Psychotherapy for Severe Narcissistic Personality Disorders: Recent Developments in Research & Treatment
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March 22, 2015 – Katherine Dixon-Gordon, Ph.D. – The Interplay of Emotional and Interpersonal Processes in BPD
March 1, 2015 – Edward A Selby, Ph.D. – Emotional Cascades And Understanding The Chaos And Complexity Of Borderline Personality Disorder
February 22, 2015 – Anthony C. Ruocco, Ph.D. – Cognitive Functioning and Functional Abilities in Borderline Personality Disorder
February 15, 2015 – Skills as the Core of DBT: Commentaries on the New Skills Manual
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August 3, 2014 – Steven Southwick – Tips for Building Resilience: Lessons from Research on Trauma Survivors
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Click here for part 2 handouts , Click here for part 3 handouts
July 27, 2014 – Carla Sharp – Hypermentalizing in BPD: A model and some data
July 20, 2014 – Julie Brown – Regulation Skills for Individuals with Learning Challenges
July 13, 2014 – Shauna Dowden – Similarities and Difference between DBT & MBT
June 8, 2014 – Nancee Blum – Taking STEPPS* to Address Borderline Personality Disorder” (*Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving)
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June 1, 2014 – Jill Rathus – Adapting DBT for Adolescents with Emotion Dysregulation
May 18, 2014 – Melanie Harned – Integrating Treatment for PTSD into Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
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August 4, 2013 – Patrick J. Kennedy – Mental Illness and Parity
July 14, 2013 – William Fleeson, Ph.D. – The Experience of Borderline Personality Disorder: Focusing on Symptoms in Order to Advance Nosology, Mechanism, and Treatment of BPD
June 30, 2013 – Christopher Crew – Rejection Sensitivity
June 23, 2013 – Charlie Swenson, MD and Kelly Koerner, Ph.D.Connecting the Dots
June 9, 2013 – Michael McCloskey, Ph.D. – Study Talk: SSRIs and Self-harm in Borderline Personality Disorder
June 2, 2013 – Lee Anna Clark, Ph.D. – Putting Personality Pathology on a Foundation of Personality Traits
May 19, 2013 – Charlie Swenson, MD and Kelly Koerner, Ph.D. – Connecting the Dots
May 12, 2013 – Leonard Simms, Ph.D. – CAT & Assessing for Personality Traits
May 5, 2013 – Geraldine Downey, Ph.D. – The rejection-rage contingency in BPD
April 28, 2013 – Beth S. Brodsky, Ph.D. – Training Clinicians to treat BPD: A DBT training program for psychiatry residents
April 21, 2013 – Charlie Swenson, MD and Kelly Koerner, Ph.D. – Connecting the Dots: NASSPD Conference Summary
April 7, 2013 – Kathryn Cullen, MD – The Neurobiology of Non-Suicidal Self Injury in Adolescents
March 24, 2013 – Drs. Swenson and Koerner – Connecting the dots
March 17, 2013 – Kate Comtois, PhD, MPH – Dialectical Behavior Therapy – Accepting the Challenges of Exiting the System (DBT-ACES)
h3>March 10, 2013 – Kim Gratz, Ph.D. – Targeting Emotion Regulation in the Treatment of Deliberate Self-Harm among Women with Borderline Personality Pathology: Efficacy of an Acceptance-based Emotion Regulation Group Therapy
March 3, 2013 – Marianne Goodman, M.D. – Trajectories To Borderline Personality Disorder In Females & Males
February 24, 2013 – Michael McCloskey, Ph.D. – Etiology and Treatment of Intermittent Explosive Disorder
January 27, 2013 – Milton Z. Brown, Ph.D. – Enhancing Emotional Regulation With Resonance Frequency Paced Breathing Training
January 13, 2013 – Charlie Swenson, MD and Kelly Koerner, Ph.D. – Procrastination
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DBT Song book–Camelot–Procrastinate , DBT Song book-Tomorrow
January 6, 2013 – Bradford Reich, MD – Affective Instability In Borderline Personality Disorder
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December 19, 2012 – Drs. Oldham, Breiling, Pandya and other Menninger Faculty – Special Call-In Discussion: Tragedy in Newtown, CT.
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December 16, 2012 – John M. Oldham, MD – Personality Disorders and DSM-5
December 9, 2012 – Timothy Trull, Ph.D., Moderated by Jim Breiling, PhD – Genetics of BPD
December 2, 2012 – Drs. Swenson and Koerner – Connecting the dots
November 18, 2012 – Carla Sharp, Ph.D. – Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder in Children & Adolescents
November 4, 2012 – Edward A. Selby, Ph.D. – Emotional Cascades: A New Paradigm for Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
October 28, 2012 – Mary C. Zanarini, Ed.D. – Ten-Year Course of Borderline Personality Disorder
October 21, 2012 – Charlie Swenson, MD and Kelly Koerner, Ph.D. – Connecting the Dots: What the hell is wise mind anyway?
October 14, 2012 – Brian Palmer, MD – Mayo Clinic – General Psychiatric Management
October 7, 2012 – Dr. Jenny Macfie, Moderated by Jim Breiling, PhD – Mothers with BPD and their Children’s Development.
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September 30, 2012 – Drs. Swenson and Koerner, Moderated by Jim Breiling, PhD – Connecting the Dots.
July 29, 2012 – Drs. Swenson and Koerner – Turning Points in Our Lives.
June 24, 2012 – Drs. Blaise Aguirre and Gillian Galen – Final Mindfulness Call in the series, led by Blaise Aguiree, MD and Gillian Galen, Psy.D.
June 17, 2012 – Drs. Blaise Aguirre and Gillian Galen – Third Mindfulness Call in the series of four led by Blaise Aguirre,MD and Gillian Galen, Psy.D.
June 10, 2012 – Dr. Kreisman – Dr. Kreisman, author of I hate You, Don’t Leave Me, gives his perspective on the history and future directions for BPD.
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May 20th, 2012 – Connecting the Dots Part 3: Being Radical – The Difference Between Making 100% Commitment to Something, versus less than 100%.
April 29th, 2012 – Connecting the Dots Part 2: Foibles, Quirks and Shortgoings.
April 22, 2012 – Drs. Blaise Aguirre and Gillian Galen – Second Mindfulness Call in the series of four led by Blaise Aguirre,MD and Gillian Galen, Psy.D.
April 15, 2012 – Drs. Blaise Aguirre and Gillian Galen – Drs. Blaise Aguirre and Gillian Galen give an overview of the practice of Mindfulness and how it can be useful for people with BPD and their loved one. Part 1: April 22nd, Part 2: April 29th.
March 25, 2012 – Connecting the Dots
March 18, 2012 – Lois Choi-Kain, MD – Mentalization in Families
March 11, 2012 – Kelly Koerner, Ph.D. – Dialectics: Acceptance & Change
March 4, 2012 – Andrew Chanen – Early detection and timely intervention for borderline personality disorder in young people
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February 26, 2012 – Charles Swenson, M.D. –Getting DBT…and Getting DBT Into The Real World:
February 19, 2012 – Eunice Chen, Ph.D. – Eating and weight disorders
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February 12, 2012 – Frank Yeomans, MD, Ph.D. – Narcissistic Pathology as Understood in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
January 29, 2012 – Shari Manning, Ph.D. – Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder
January 22, 2012 – Alec Miller, Psy.D. – Borderline Personality Disorder and Adolescents
January 15, 2012 – Michele Galietta, Ph.D. – Aggression and Borderline Personality Disorder
January 8, 2012 – Brian Palmer, M.D., M.P.H. – BPD for Professionals, BPD for Professionals, Patients and Patients and Family Members – Overview for NEA.BPD
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December 18, 2011 – Jim Breiling, Ph.D. 2011: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
December 11, 2011 – Frank Yeomans, MD, Ph.D. Transference-Focused Therapy (TFP)
December 4, 2011 – Shireen Rizvi, Ph. D. Review and Report from ISITDBT 2011
November 20, 2011 – Karyn Hall. Ph.D. Co-author of The Power of Validation.
November 13, 2011 – Lois Choi-Kain, MD Mentalization
October 30, 2011 – Richard Hersh, MD Borderline Personality Disorder: Informing Patients and Family Members
October 23, 2011 – Charlie Swenson, MD: Getting DBT into the Real World
October 9, 2011 – Barbara Stanley, Ph.D. Safety Planning: A New Intervention for Suicidal Patients
October 2, 2011 – Ken Silk, MD: Medication: Benefits and Liabilities