Lee Anna Clark
Professor EmeritaCo-Director, Center for Advanced Measurement of Personality and Psychopathology (CAMPP lab)
- Office
- E532 Corbett Family Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
- +1 574-631-7482
- lclark6@nd.edu
- Website
- https://psychology.nd.edu/faculty/lee-anna-clark/
Center for Advanced Measurement of Personality and Psychopathology (CAMPP Lab)
Research and teaching interests
Research interests: assessment of personality pathology, relations of personality to psychopathology, structure of psychopathology. Teaching interests: Supervision of Clinical Assessment, Adult Psychopathology, Personality Pathology
Biography
Dr. Clark is a clinical psychologist whose research focuses on the assessment of personality pathology, 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 was a member of the Personality and Personality Disorder Work Group for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorder, 5th Ed. (DSM-5), and of the Personality Disorder Working Group for the International Classification of Diseases, 11th Ed. (ICD-11), which is the international standard for the diagnosis of mental disorder.
Professor Clark's current research focus, which was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, aims to identify the core elements of personality pathology that are needed to diagnose personality disorder, and to determine how personality pathology relates to other types of psychopathology and to psychosocial disability.
For her work that spans the fields of personality and psychopathology, Dr. Clark was awarded the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's 2017 Jack Block Award for Distinguished Contributions to Personality, the Society for Research in Psychopathology's 2017 Joseph Zubin Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychopathology. and the 2019 John Gunderson Senior Researcher Award by the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorder.
Education
Ph.D. 1982 University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN Clinical Psychology (Adult specialization), with supporting programs in personality assessment & cross-cultural psychology
M.A. 1977 Cornell University; Ithaca, New York Asian Studies (Specialization: Japan)
B. A. 1972 Cornell University; Ithaca, New York Psycholinguistics (College Scholar Program, with distinction)
Approach to Mentoring
With both graduate and undergraduate students, I aim to instill in them an appreciation for the science of clinical psychology and to teach them to apply a scientific perspective to new information so they can discriminate between "facts" and "opinions." With graduate students, I additionally strive to help them get the best psychological training they can to reach their career goals, whether those be in research, teaching, in clinical practice, or some other worthy field of endeavor.Representative Publications
Clark, L. A., & Watson, D. (in press, 2022). "Personality trait model of the DSM-5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorder (AMPD): A structural review." Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, & Treatment.
Clark, L. A., Corona-Espinosa, A., Serapio-García, G., Khoo, S., Kotelnikova, Y., Levin-Aspenson, H. F., & Watson, D. (2021). "Preliminary scales for ICD-11 personality disorder: Self- and interpersonal dysfunction plus five personality disorder trait domains." Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.668724
Clark, L. A., & Watson, D. (2019). "Constructing validity: New developments in creating objective measuring instruments." Psychological Assessment, 31, 1412-1427. Invited paper for a Special Issue. DOI: 10.1037/pas0000626
Clark, L. A., Nuzum H., & Ro, E. (2018). "Manifestations of personality impairment severity: Comorbidity, course/prognosis, psychosocial dysfunction, and “borderline” personality features." Current Opinion in Psychology, 21, 117-121. DOI: 10.1016/J.COPSYC.2017.12.004
Clark, L. A., Cuthbert, B. N., Lewis-Fernandéz, R., Narrow, W., & Reed, G. M. (2017). "Three approaches to understanding and classifying mental disorder: ICD-11, DSM-5, and RDoC." Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 18(2), 72-145. DOI: 10.1177/1529100617727266