Peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters:

Venta, A., & Sharp, C. (in press). The importance of attachment security in suicide prevention research: Preliminary findings and future directions in a sample of inpatient adolescents. Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. 

Williams, L., & Sharp, C. (in press). Borderline Personality Disorder in adolescence: The case for medium stay inpatient treatment. Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 19(2), 1-12.

Meier, S., Sharp, C., Michonski, J., Babcock, J., & Fitzgerald, K. (in press). Romantic relationships of female-to-male trans men. International Journal of  Transgenderism.

Noblin, L., Venta, A., & Sharp, C. (in press). Criterion Validity of the MSI-BPD among Inpatient Adolescents. Assessment. (IF: 2.014) 

Atkinson, J., Sharp, C., Schmitz, J., & Yaroslavsky, I. (2012). Behavioral activation and inhibition, negative affect and gambling severity in a sample of young adult college students. Journal of Gambling Studies, 28(3), 437-449. DOI 10.1007/s10899-011-9273-x (IF: 1.303) pdf

Dellis, A., Spurrett, D., Hofmeyr, A., Sharp, C., & Ross, D. (in press). Gambling Participation and Problem Gambling Severity among Rural and Peri-Urban Poor South African Adults in KwaZulu-Natal. Journal of Gambling Studies.

Schramm, A., Venta, A., & Sharp, C. (2013). The role of experiential avoidance in the association between borderline features and emotion regulation in adolescents. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Practice. pdf

Steinberg, L., Sharp, C., Stanford, M., & Tharp, A. (2013). New tricks for an old measure: The development of the Brief Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-Brief).Psychological Assessment. pdf

Sharp, C. & Sieswerda, S. (2013). The social-cognitive basis of borderline and antisocial personality disorder: Introduction. Journal of Personality Disorders.  pdf

Sharp, C., Fonagy, P., & Allen, J. (2013). Post-traumatic stress disorder: a social-cognitive perspective. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. pdf

Sharp, C., Ha,C., Carbone, C., Kim, S., Perry, K., Williams, L., Fonagy, P. (2013). Hypermentalizing in adolescent inpatients: Treatment effects and association with borderline traits. Journal of Personality Disorders. pdf

Kincaid, H., Daniels, R., Dellis, A., Hofmeyr, A., Rousseau, J., Sharp, C., & Ross, D. (in press). A taxometric analysis of problem gambling data from a South African national urban sample. Journal of Gambling Studies.

Perez, J., Venta, A., Garnaat, S., & Sharp, C. (2012). The difficulties in emotion regulation scale: Factor structure and association with nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescent inpatients. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 34(3). 393-404. pdf

Sharp, C., Monterosso, J., & Montague, R. (2012). Neuroeconomics: A bridge for translational research. Biological Psychiatry, 72(2), 87-92. pdf

Sharp, C. (2012). The use of neuroeconomic games to examine social decision-making in child and adolescent externalizing disorders. Current Directions in Psychological Sciences, 21(3), 183 – 188. pdf

Michonski, J.D.M., Sharp, C., Steinberg, L., & Zanarini, M. (2013). An Item Response Theory analysis of the borderline personality disorder criteria in a population-based sample of 11 to 12-year-old children. Journal of Personality Disorders: Theory, research and treatment. pdf

Venta, A., Ross, E., Schatte, D., & Sharp, C. (2012). Suicide Ideation and Attempt among Inpatient Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder: Frequency, Intensity, and Age of Onset. Personality and Mental Health. pdf

Venta, A., Hart, J., & Sharp, C. (in press). The relation between experiential avoidance, alexithymia and emotion regulation in inpatient adolescents. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Sharp, C., Green, K., Yaroslavsky, I., Venta, A., Zanarini, M.C., & Pettit, J. (2012). The incremental validity of borderline personality disorder relative to major depressive disorder for suicidal ideation and deliberate self-harm in adolescents. Journal of Personality Disorders. pdf

Sharp, C., Burton, P., & Ha, C. (2011). "Better the devil you know": A preliminary study of the differential modulating effects of reputation on reward processing for boys with and without externalizing behavior problems. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. pdf

Venta, A., Kenkel-Mikelonis, R., & Sharp, C. (2012). A preliminary study of the relation between trauma symptoms and emerging BPD in adolescent inpatients. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. pdf

Sharp, C., Ha, C., Michonski, J., Venta, A., & Carbonne, C. (2012). The diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder in adolescents: Evidence in support of the CI-BPD in a sample of adolescent inpatient. Comprehensive Psychiatry. pdf

Sharp, C., Steinberg, L., Yaroslavsky, I., Hofmeyr, A., Dellis, A., Kincaid, H., & Ross, D. (2012). An item response theory analysis of the Problem Gambling Severity Index.  Assessment. 19(2), 167-175. DOI: 10.1177/1073191111418296 (IF: 2.014) pdf

Sharp, C., & Venta, A. (2012). Mentalizing problems in children and adolescents. In. Midgley, N. and Vrouva, I. (Eds.). Minding the Child:  Mentalization-based Interventions with Children, Young People and their Families. London, UK: Routledge. pdf

Patel, A., Sharp, C. & Fonagy, P. (2011).  Criterion validity of the MSI-BPD in a community sample of women. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 33 (3), 403-408. DOI:. 10.1007/s10862-011-9238-5 (IF: 0.906) pdf

Seals, R., Sharp, C., Ha, C, & Michonski, J. (2012). The relationship between the Youth Psychopathic traits Inventory and psychopathology in a US community sample of male youth. Journal of Personality Assessment. pdf

Venta, A., & Sharp, C. & Hart, J. (2012). The relation between anxiety disorder and experiential avoidance in inpatient adolescents. Psychological Assessment. pdf

Collins, P., Stein, D. J., Pretorius, A., Sinclair, H., Ross, D., Barr, G., Hofmeyr, A., Sharp, C., Spurrett, D., Rousseau, J., Ainslie, G., Dellis, A., Kincaid, H., & Bak, N. (2011). Addressing problem gambling: South Africa's National Responsible Gambling Programme. South African Medical Journal, 101(10), 722-723. (IF: 1.325) pdf

Chang, B., Sharp, C., & Ha, C. (2011). The criterion validity of the Borderline Personality Feature Scale for Children in an adolescent inpatient setting.Journal of Personality Disorders. pdf

Sharp, C., Pane, H., Ha, C., Venta, A., Patel, A., Sturek, J., & Fonagy, P. (2011). Theory of mind and emotion regulation difficulties in adolescents with borderline traits. Journal of the American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. pdf

Sharp, C., Fonagy, P., Ha, C. (2011). Get them before they get you: Trust, trustworthiness and social cognition in boys with and without externalizing behavior problems. Development and Psychopathology. pdf

Sharp, C., Barr, G., Ross, D., Ha, C., Bhimani, R., Vuchinich, R. (2011). Social discounting in boys with and without externalizing behaviour problems.Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. pdf

Teten, A., Sharp, C., Stanford, M.S., Lake, S.L., Raine, A., & Kent. T. (2011). Correspondence of aggressive behaviour classifications among young adults using the Impulsive Premeditated Aggression Scale and the Reactive Proactive Questionnaire. Personality and Individual Differences. pdf

Ha, C. Sharp, C. & Goodyer, I.M. (2011). The role of child and parent mentalizing for the development of conduct problems over time. European Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 20, 291-300. pdf

Michonski, J. & Sharp, C. (2010). Revisiting Lynam's notion of the "fledgling psychopath": are HIA-CP children truly psychopathic-like? Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health. pdf

Sharp, C., Skinner, D., Motsaathebe, S., & Ross, M. (2010). A qualitative study of the cultural appropriateness of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC-IV) in South Africa. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. DOI 10.1007/s00127-010-0241-z pdf

Sharp, C., Mosko, O., Chang, B., & Ha, C. (2010). The cross-informant concordance and concurrent validity of the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children in a sample of male youth. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. pdf

Sharp, C., Williams, L., Ha, C., Baumgardner, J., Michonski, J., Seals, R., Patel, A., Bleiberg, E., & Fonagy, P. (2009). The development of a mentalization-based outcomes and research protocol for an adolescent in-patient unit. The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 73(4), 311-338. pdf

Allen, J.G., Frueh, C., Ellis, T.E., Latini, D., Mahoney, J.S., Oldham, J.M., Sharp, C., & Wallin, L. (2009). Integrating outcomes assessment and research into clinical care in inpatient adult psychiatric treatment. The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 73(4), 259-295. pdf

Sharp, C. (2010). Book review. Dialectical Behavior Therapy. The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 74(1), 81-85. pdf

King-Casas, B., Sharp, C., Lomax, L., Lohrenz, T., Fonagy, P., & Montague, R. (2008). The rupture and repair of cooperation in borderline personality disorder. Science. 321:806-810. pdf

Sharp, C., Peterson, N., & Goodyer, I.M. (2008). Emotional reactivity and the emergence of conduct problems and internalizing symptoms in children: A longitudinal investigation. Journal of American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47(5):565-573. pdf

Sharp, C., & Fonagy, P. (2008). The parent’s capacity to treat the child as a psychological agent: Constructs, measures and implications for developmental psychopathology. Social Development, 17(3): 737-754. pdf

Ha, Carolyn, Nancy J. Petersen & Sharp, C. (2008). Narcissism, self-esteem, and peer problems: Implications for conduct problems in a community sample of 7-11 year old children. European Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 17(7), 406-413. pdf

Sharp, C. (2008). Book review. A generation at risk: The global impact of HIV/AIDS on orphans and vulnerable children. Psychological Medicine, 38, 1211-1212. pdf

Sharp, C. (2008). Theory of mind and conduct problems in children: Deficits in reading the 'emotions of the eyes'. Cognition and Emotion, 22(6), 1149-1158.pdf

Sharp, C. & Kine, S. (2008). The assessment of juvenile psychopathy: Strengths and weaknesses of currently used questionnaire measures. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 13(2), 85-95. pdf

Sharp, C., Fonagy, P., & Goodyer, I.M. (2008). Introduction: Social cognition and developmental psychopathology. In Sharp, C., Fonagy, P., and Goodyer, I.M. (Eds.), Social cognition and Developmental Psychopathology, pp. 1-28. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sharp, C., & Fonagy P. (2008). Social cognition and attachment-related disorders. In Sharp, C., Fonagy, P., and Goodyer, I.M. (Eds.), Social cognition and Developmental PsychopathologyS, pp. 269-302. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fonagy, P. & Sharp, C. (2008). Treatment outcome of childhood psychological disturbance: The perspective of social cognition. In Sharp, C., Fonagy, P., and Goodyer, I.M. (Eds.), Social cognition and Developmental Psychopathology, pp. 409-468. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sharp, C., Croudace, T.J, & Goodyer, I.M. (2007). Biased mentalising in children aged 7-11: Latent class confirmation of response styles to social scenarios and associations with psychopathology. Social Development, 16(1), 181-202. pdf

Sharp, C., & Romero, C. (2007). Borderline Personality Disorder: A comparison between children and adults. The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 71(2), 121-150. pdf

Sharp, C., & Beckmann, KM. (2007). Human Development. In: A. Michael and B. Underwood (Ed). 1500 Questions in Psychiatry, pp. 107-113. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingston.

Sharp, C., Van Goozen, S.H.M., & Goodyer, I.M. (2006). Children's subjective emotional reactivity to affective pictures: gender differences and their antisocial correlates in an unselected sample of 7-11 year olds. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47(2), 143-150. pdf

Sharp, C., Fonagy, P., & Goodyer, I.M. (2006). Imagining your child's mind: Psychosocial adjustment and mothers' ability to predict their children's attributional response styles. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 24, 197-214. pdf

Sharp, C., Goodyer, I.M., & Croudace, T.J. (2006). The Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ): a unidimensional item response theory and categorical data factor analysis of self-report ratings from a community sample of children aged 7 through 11. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34(3), 365-377. pdf

Sharp, C. (2006). Mentalizing problems in childhood disorders. In J.G. Allen & P. Fonagy (Eds.), Handbook of mentalization-based treatments, pp. 201-212. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

Sharp, C. & Bleiberg, E. (2006). Borderline Personality Disorder in children and adolescents. In A. Martin and F. Volkmar (Eds.) Lewis Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Comprehensive Textbook (4th Ed), pp. 680-691. Baltimore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

Sharp, C., Croudace, T.J., Goodyer, I.M., & Amtmann, D. (2005). The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: Predicitive validity for help-seeking behaviour from parents over one year. Educational and Child Psychology, 22(3), 28-44. pdf

Goodyer, I.M., & Sharp, C. (2005). Childhood depression. In B. Hopkins, R.G. Barr, G.F. Michel, & P. Rochat (Eds.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Sharp, C. (2002). Book review: Sex differences in antisocial behavior: Conduct disorder, delinquency and violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study.Psychological Medicine, 32, 1475-1478. pdf

Books:

Sharp, C., & Tackett, J. (under contract). Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents. Springer.

Sharp, C., Fonagy, P., & Fletcher, J.M. (under contract). Developmental psychopathology. Wiley-Blackwell.

Sharp, C., Fonagy, P., Goodyer, I.M. (Eds) (2008). Social cognition and developmental psychopathology. Oxford University Press.

Ross, D., Sharp, C., Vuchinich, R. and Spurrett, D. (2008). Midbrain mutiny: Behavioral economics and neuroeconomics of gambling addiction as basic reward system disorder, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Other publications:

Sharp, C. (2000). Distorted Mentalizing Task. Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

Sharp, C. (2009). Distorted Mentalizing Task. Italian version (with permission of C. Sharp): O. Liverta Sempio, E. Di Terlizzi, Theory of Mind Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Largo Gemelli 1 - 20123 Milano (Italy).

To obtain copies of the original task, please contact Carla Sharp at csharp2@uh.edu. To obtain a copy of the Italian version of the task, please email Olga Liverta Sempio at olga.liverta@tiscali.it.