Research Interests for Clive J Robins

Research Interests:

Research Interests: Psychopathology and treatment of borderline personality disorder; suicidal and self-injurious behavior; emotion regulation; impulsivity; mindfulness meditation.
Clinical Interests: Cognitive-behavioral treatment of borderline personality disorder, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders.

Representative Publications
  1. Robins, C. J., Ivanoff, A. M., & Linehan, M. M. (2001). Dialectical behavior therapy. In W. J. Livesley (Ed.), Handbook of personality disorders: Theory, research and treatment (pp. 437-459). New York: Guilford Press. .
  2. Robins, C.J. & Koons, C.R. (2000). The therapeutic relationship in dialectical behavioral therapy. In A.N. Sabo & L.Havens (Eds.), The real world guide to psychotherapy practice (pp. 237-266). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. .
  3. Robins, C.J., Bagby, R.M., Rector, N.A., Lynch, T.R., & Kennedy, S.M. (1997).  Sociotropy, autonomy, and patterns of symptoms in patients with major depression:  A comparison of dimensional and categorical approaches. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 21, 43-58. .
  4. Robins, C.J. (1995). Personality-event interaction models of depression. European Journal of Personality, 9, 367-378. .
  5. Robins, C.J., Block, P., Hayes, A.M., Kramer, R.J., & Villena, M. (1995). Interpersonal and achievement concerns and the depressive vulnerability and symptom specificity hypotheses: A prospective study. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 19, 1-20. .
  6. Robins, C.J., Ladd, J.S., Welkowitz, J., Blaney, P., Kutcher, G., & Diaz, R. (1994). The Personal Style Inventory: Preliminary validation studies of new measures of sociotropy and autonomy. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 16, 277-300. .
  7. Peselow, E.D., Robins, C.J., Sanfilipo, M., Block, P., & Fieve, R.R. (1992).  Sociotropy and autonomy: Relationship to antidepressant drug treatment response and endogenous/nonendogenous dichotomy. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 101, 479-486. .
  8. Robins, C. J. & Luten, A. G. (1991). Sociotropy and autonomy: Differential patterns of clinical presentation in unipolar depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 100, 74-77. .
  9. Robins, C. J. (1990). Congruence of personality and life events in depression.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 99, 393-397. .
  10. CJ Robins, P Block, ED Peselow, Relations of sociotropic and autonomous personality characteristics to specific symptoms in depressed patients., Journal of abnormal psychology, UNITED STATES, vol. 98 no. 1 (February, 1989), pp. 86-8 [abs].
  11. CJ Robins, P Block, Personal vulnerability, life events, and depressive symptoms: a test of a specific interactional model., Journal of personality and social psychology, UNITED STATES, vol. 54 no. 5 (May, 1988), pp. 847-52 [abs].