About Matthew W. Southward Books
Shannon Sauer-Zavala, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, professor at the University of Kentucky, and lead developer of COMPASS, a short-term intervention for personality difficulties. Her research focuses on personality factors that maintain psychological symptoms and how to optimize treatments to improve outcomes.Matthew W. Southward, PhD, is an assistant professor at The Ohio State University who studies both how and for whom cognitive-behavioral treatments for mood, anxiety, and personality disorders work to optimize and personalize these evidence-based therapies.Caitlyn O. Hood, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky. She is a clinical psychologist and implementation practitioner committed to expanding access to effective interventions that address behavioral health.Julianne G. Wilner, PhD, is a clinical psychologist at McLean Hospital, and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on improving mental health treatment by developing and evaluating mechanism-driven interventions, particularly for adolescents and young adults at risk for suicide. She has received NIH funding for her work using multimodal tools to better understand how online interpersonal behavior mechanisms contribute to suicide risk in adolescents.Foreword writer Kim L. Gratz, PhD, is a senior clinical quality manager and clinical lead of the dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) program at Lyra Health. She has received multiple awards for her research on emotion regulation, personality disorders, and self-injury; and has authored several books on borderline personality disorder (BPD), self-injury, and DBT.
