Research & Publications
The DBTCSD staff are regularly involved in research, presentations, speaking engagements, and organizations relevant to DBT and the disorders we treat.
Linehan, M., Comtois, K., Murray, A., Brown, M.Z., Gallop, R., Heard, H., Korslund, K., Tutek, D., Reynolds, S., & Lindenboim N. (2006). Two-year randomized controlled trial and follow-up of dialectical behavior therapy vs therapy by experts for suicidal behaviors and borderline personality disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 63(7), 757-766.
Dimeff, L.A., Rizvi, S.L., Brown, M.Z., & Linehan, M. (2000). Dialectical behavior therapy for substance abuse: A pilot application to methamphetamine-dependent women with borderline personality disorder. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 7, 457-468.
Linehan, M., McDavid, J., Brown, M.Z., Sayrs, J., & Gallop, R.J. (2008). Olanzapine plus dialectical behavior therapy for irritable women meeting criteria for borderline personality disorder: A double blind, placebo-controlled pilot study. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 69, 999-1005.
Brown, M.Z., & Dahlin, K. (2016). Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Treating the Effects of Trauma. In: Steven Gold and Constance Dalenberg (Eds.). Handbook of Trauma Psychology. American Psychological Association.
Rizvi, S.L., Brown, M.Z., Bohus, M., & Linehan, M. (2011). The role of shame in the development and treatment of borderline personality disorder. In: R.L. Dearing and J.P. Tangney (Eds.), Shame in the therapy hour, 237-260. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Brown, M.Z., & Chapman, A.L. (2007). Stopping self-harm once and for all: Relapse prevention in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. In: G.A. Marlatt & K. Witkiewitz (Eds.), Therapist’s Guide to Evidence-Based Relapse Prevention. Academic Press.
Brown, M.Z. (2006). Linehan’s theory of suicidal behavior: Theory, research, and dialectical behavior therapy. In: T. Ellis (Ed.), Cognition and Suicide: Theory, Research, and Practice. American Psychological Association.
Brown, M.Z., Gale, A., & Thomas, C. (2007). New emotion regulation skills in dialectical behavior therapy. San Diego Psychologist, 22(9).
Brown, M.Z., & Burt, A. (2007). Opposite action intervention for shame and self-hatred. San Diego Psychologist, 22(6), 11-13.
Chapman, A.L., & Brown, M.Z. (2007). Cognitive behavioural theory of suicidal behaviour. In: A. Shrivastava (Ed.). International Handbook of Suicide Behaviour. Gaskell Publications
Brown, M.Z. (March 2010). Cognitive behavior therapy for chronically parasuicidal patients. San Diego Therapist: San Diego Chapter of California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.
Brown, M.Z. (2007). Cognitive behavior therapy for chronically parasuicidal patients. San Diego Psychologist, 22(2), 9-10.
Ivanoff, A., Brown, M.Z., & Linehan, M., (2001). Dialectical behavior therapy for for impulsive self-injurious behaviors. In: D. Simeon, E. Hollander (Eds.), Self-Injurious Behaviors: Assessment and Treatment. American Psychiatric Press.
Brown, M.Z. (1998). Self-mutilation, treatment research symposium: The behavioral treatment of self-mutilation. Proceedings of the XVI Congress of the World Association for Social Psychiatry, 1998, Vancouver B.C., Canada.
Brown, M.Z., MacKinnon, S., Nance, J., & Bixby, E. (November, 2010). Using the Human Dive Reflex to Promote Emotion Regulation and Fear Counter-Conditioning. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Francisco.
Brown, M.Z., & Rizvi, S.L. (November, 2006). Treatment of shame with exposure therapy and opposite action: A multiple baseline study. Symposium presentation at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Chicago, IL.
Lindenboim, N., Brown, M.Z., Korslund, K., & Linehan, M. (2003). Patient report of skills use in DBT: Does it predict outcome? Poster presented at the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Boston, CT.
Brown, J.F., Brown, M.Z., & DiBiasio, P. (2013). Treating Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors with Adapted Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 6(4):280-303.
Dimeff, L.A., Koerner, K., Woodcock, E.A., Beadnell, B., Brown, M.Z., Skutch, J.M., Paves, A.P., Bazinet, A., & Harned, M.S. (2009). Which training method works best? A randomized controlled trial comparing three methods of training clinicians in dialectical behavior therapy skills. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47(11), 921-930.
Brown, M.Z., Comtois, K., Murray, A., Linehan, M., & Chapman, A.L. (2009). Shame as a Prospective Predictor of Self-Inflicted Injury in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Multi-modal Analysis. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47, 815-822.
Brown, M.Z., Comtois, K., & Linehan, M. (2002). Reasons for suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injury in women with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111(1), 198-202.
Chapman, A., Gratz, K., & Brown, M.Z. (2006). Solving the puzzle of deliberate self-harm: The experiential avoidance model. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 371-394.
Linehan, M., Comtois, K., Brown, M.Z., Heard, H.L., & Wagner, A. (2006). Suicide Attempt Self-Injury Interview (SASII): Development, reliability, and validity of a scale to assess suicide attempts and intentional self-injury. Psychological Assessment, 18(3), 303-312.
Chen, E., Brown, M.Z., Harned, M., & Linehan, M. (2009). A comparison of borderline personality disorder with and without eating disorders. Psychiatry Research, 170, 86-90.
Chen, E.Y., Brown, M.Z., Lo, T., & Linehan, M. (2007). Sexually transmitted disease rates and high-risk sexual behaviors in borderline personality disorder versus borderline personality disorder with substance use disorder. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 195(2), 125-129.
McCullough, J., Jones, N., Rompogren, J., & Brown, M.Z. (November, 2014). The role of shame and self-punishing thoughts in self-inflicted injury. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Bixby, E., & Brown, M.Z. (November, 2014). The Emotion Regulation Effect of Experimentally Induced Pain on Individuals with a History of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Izadi, M., Brown, M.Z., & Ray, D. (November, 2014). Understanding the Relationship Between Perfectionism, Non-Suicidal Self Injury, and Suicidality: the Mediating Role of Shame. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Brown, M.Z., & Stanciu, C. (November, 2010). Proximal Causes of Non-Suicidal Self-Inflicted Injury (NSSII) Using Semantic Priming. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Francisco.
Israel, J.W., Izadi, M., Paulson, K.L., Gandy, S., & Brown, M.Z. (2012, October). Protective Factors Against Suicidality Among Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Poster presented at San Diego Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.
Izadi. M., Israel, J.W., Paulson, K.L., Gandy, S., & Brown, M.Z. (2012, October). Anger as a Predictor of Suicidality in Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Trauma. Poster presented at San Diego Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.
Lungu, A., Miller, R., Brown, M.Z., & Linehan, M. (November, 2011). Antecedent Events and Consequences of Suicide Attempts and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Women with Borderline Personality Disorder. Poster presented at International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Brown, M.Z., & Linehan, M. (November, 2010). Shame Variability as a Prospective Predictor of Self-Inflicted Injury in Borderline Personality Disorder. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Francisco.
Schneider, K., Brown, M.Z., Linehan, M., & Lynch, T. (November, 2007). Expected and actual outcomes of intentional self-harm behavior. Symposium presentation at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Boe, R., Brown, M.Z., Linehan, M., & Steere, L. (2004). Precipitating events for suicide attempts vs. nonsuicidal self-injury in women meeting criteria for borderline personality disorder. Poster presented at the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.
Comtois, K., Brown, M.Z. & Linehan, M. (1998). Diagnostic predictors of severity of borderline personality disorder. Poster presented at the International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Washington DC.
Mackinnon, S., Gevirtz, R., McCraty, R., & Brown M.Z. (2013). Utilizing Heartbeat Evoked Potentials to Identify Cardiac Regulation of Vagal Afferents During Emotion and Resonant Breathing. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 38(4), 241-255.
Brown, M.Z., Reynard, A., & Nance, J. (2012). Self-regulation: the role of heart rate variability. San Diego Psychologist, 26(6), 14-16.
Reynard, A., Gevirtz, R., Brown, M.Z., Boutelle, K., & Berlow, R. (2011). Heart Rate Variability as a Marker of Self-Regulation. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 36(3), 209-215.
Swanson, K.S., Gevirtz, R., Brown, M.Z., Spira, J., Guarneri, E., & Stoletniy, L. (2009). The effect of biofeedback on function in patients with heart failure. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 34(2), 71-91.
Nance, J., Rompogren, J., & Brown, M.Z. (2012, November). Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback as an Ancillary Treatment for Emotion Dysregulation in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder. Poster presented at International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Brown, M.Z., Chaudhri, P., & Gevirtz, R. (2009). Mediators of Combined Cardiorespiratory Biofeedback and Dialectical Behavioral Skills Therapy for Treating Major Depressive Disorder and Low Heart Rate Variability Following Myocardial Infarction. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.
Brown, M.Z., Thomas, C., & Gevirtz, R. (November, 2007). Diaphragmatic breathing and heart rate variability biofeedback for decreasing compulsive behaviors in borderline personality disorder. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
McNally Keehn, R., Lincoln, A.J., Brown, M.Z., & Chavira, D.A. (2012). The Coping Cat Program for children with anxiety and autism spectrum disorder: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(1), 57-67. DOI 10.1007/s10803-012-1541-9
Rosen, G., Sawchuk, C., Atkins, D., Brown, M.Z., Lees-Haley, P., & Price, J. (2006). Risk of false positives when identifying malingered profiles using the trauma symptom inventory. Journal of Personality Assessment, 86(3), 329-33.
Jensen, M.P., Barber, J., Williams-Avery, R.M., Flores, L., & Brown, M.Z. (2000). The effect of hypnotic suggestion on spinal cord injury pain. Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 14, 3-10.
Abdullah, K., Jones, N., Huntley, C., & Brown, M.Z. (November, 2014). The influence of shame on binge eating disorder behaviors. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Mihalick S.M., Crandall, J.E., Langlois, J.C., Krienke, J.D., & Dube, W.V. (2001) Prenatal ethanol exposure, generalized learning impairment and medial prefrontal cortical deficits in rats. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 23: 453-462.
Mihalick, S.M., Langlois, J.C., & Krienke, J.D. (2000). Strain and sex differences on olfactory discrimination learning in C57BL/6J and DBA/2J inbred mice (mus musculus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 114: 4, 365-370.
Mihalick, S.M., Langlois, J.C., Krienke, J.D., & Dube, W.V. (2000). An olfactory discrimination procedure for mice. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 73: 4, 305-318.
