Lee Anna Clark
William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Profile
Dr. Clark is a clinical psychologist recruited from the University of Iowa (1993-2010), where she had served as Director of Clinical Training and received the Iowa Regents’ Award for Faculty Excellence in 2006. Her research focuses on the assessment of personality disorder, for which she developed the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP), a psychological test that measures personality traits across the normal-abnormal spectrum. She is widely published and is one of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)’s “most highly cited” psychologists. She is one of 11 international members of the Work Group to revise the Personality and Personality Disorders section of the DSM-5, the widely used diagnostic and classification system of mental disorders of the American Psychiatric Association, and also serves on several cross-cutting Study Groups for the DSM revision. Clark will start her appointment with a new 5-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Professor Clark’s primary research focus is the assessment of adaptive and nonadaptive personality traits and the diagnosis of personality disorder. Her research involves increasing our understanding of (1) the specific traits that comprise each of the major domains of personality (e.g., social detachment and withdrawal, restricted emotional experience and expression, reduced capacity for pleasure, and intimacy avoidance comprise the broad domain of Introversion); (2) determining the core deficits in personality disorder and exploring how to assess them independently of personality traits; (3) deepening our understanding of—and ability to assess—interpersonal and occupational functioning as indicators of personality dysfunction.
Recent Papers:
Calabrese, W. R., Rudick, M. M., Simms, L. J., & Clark, L. A. (in press). Development and validation of Big-Four scales for the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality-2nd Edition (SNAP-2). Psychological Assessment. doi: 10.1037/a0026915
Renner, F., Jarrett, R. B., Vittengl, J.R., Barrett, M.S., Clark, L. A., & Thase, M. E. (2012). Interpersonal problems as predictors of therapeutic alliance and symptom improvement in cognitive therapy for depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 138(3), 458-467. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2011.12.044
Eaton, N. R., Krueger, R. F., South, S. C., Simms, L. J., & Clark, L. A. (2011). Contrasting prototypes and dimensions in the classification of personality pathology: Evidence that dimensions, but not prototypes, are robust. Psychological Medicine 41(6), 1151-1163.doi: 10.1017/S0033291710001650
Jarrett, R. B., Vittengl, J. R., Clark, L. A., & Thase, M. E. (2011). Skills of Cognitive Therapy (SoCT): A new measure of patients’ comprehension and use. Psychological Assessment, 23(3), 578-586. doi: 10.1037/a0022485
Krueger, R. F., Eaton, N. R., Clark, L. A., Watson, D., Markon, K. E., Derringer, J., & Skodol, A. E. (2011). Deriving an empirical structure of personality pathology for DSM‑5. Journal of Personality Disorders, 25(2), 170-191. doi: 10.1521/pedi.2011.25.2.170
Latzman, R. D., Vaidya, J. G., Clark, L. A., & Watson, D. (2011). Components of disinhibition (vs. constraint) differentially predict aggression and alcohol use. European Journal of Personality, 25(6), 477-486. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/per.821
Ready, R. E., Vaidya, J. G., Watson, D., Latzman, R. D., Koffel, E. A., & Clark, L. A. (in press). Age-group differences in facets of positive and negative affect. Aging and Mental Health, online 1-12. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2011.562184
Skodol, A. E., Clark, L. A., Bender, D. S., Krueger, R. F., Livesley, W. J., Morey, L. C., Verheul, R., Alarcon, R. D., Bell, C. C., Siever, L. J., & Oldham, J. M. (2011). Proposed changes in personality and personality disorder assessment and diagnosis for DSM-5, Part I: Description and rationale. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, & Treatment, 2(1), 4-22.
Tyrer, P., Crawford, M., Mulder, R., Blashfield, R., Farnam, A., Fossati, A., Kim, Y., Koldobsky, N., Lecic-Tosevski, D., Ndetei, D., Swales, M., Clark, L. A., & G. M. Reed. (2011). A classification based on evidence is the first step to clinical utility. Personality and Mental Health, 5(4), 304-307.
Clark, L. A. (2010). Emergent issues in assessing personality pathology: Illustrations from two studies of adolescent personality and related pathology. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 32(4), 537-543. doi: 10.1007/s10862-010-9203-8
Clark, L. A. (2009). Stability and change in personality disorder. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18(1), 27-31. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01600.x
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Contact Information:
Office: 124A Haggar Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: 574-631-7482
Email: la.clark@nd.edu