Marsha Linehan

Department of Psychology, University of Washington, United States of America

Marsha M Linehan

Academic positions:
- Professor of Psychology
- Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington
- Director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics, a consortium of research projects developing new treatments and evaluating their efficacy for severely disordered and multi-diagnostic populations

Any industry positions (last five years):
Founder of Marie Institute of Behavioral Technology, a non-profit organization that owns the company she founded, Behavioral Tech LLC, a behavioral technology transfer group.

Research interests:
Dr Linehan's primary research is in the application of behavioral models to suicidal behaviors, drug abuse, and borderline personality disorder. She is also working to develop effective models for transferring efficacious treatments from the research academy to the clinical community.

Any other information:
Dr Linehan has received many awards including;
- Louis I. Dublin Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Field of Suicide
- Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association
- Awards for Distinguished Research in Suicide (American Foundation of Suicide Prevention), Distinguished Contributions to the Practice of Psychology (American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology), Distinguished Contributions for Clinical Activities, (Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy), and Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology (Society of Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association).
- Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychopathological Association

She is Past-president of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, a diplomat of the American Board of Behavioral Psychology and serves on a number of editorial boards, and has published extensively in scientific journals. She has written three books, including two treatment manuals: Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder and Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Psychiatry > Personality & Impulse Disorders (since 16 November 2005)

Marsha Linehan is a Section Head for Personality & Impulse Disorders, part of the PSYCHIATRY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://faculty.washington.edu/linehan/