Stephanie D Stepp, PhD

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3811 O'Hara St.

Pittsburgh

15213

Jennifer Wilson

Borderline personality disorder; Preschool emotion regulation; Proximal markers of suicide risk

Dialectical behavior therapy; Suicide prevention; Mother-child interaction

Research mentorship; Clinician training and supervision

Zalewski M, Byrd AL, Vine V, Hernandez AC & Stepp SD. (2024). Maternal suicide risk predicts preschooler emotional and behavioral problems. Psychiatry Research, 337, 115969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115969
Vanwoerden S, Vine V, Byrd AL, Jennings JR & Stepp SD. (2024). The role of youths' cardiac autonomic balance and parental responses to youth emotion in vulnerability to borderline personality disorder development. Development and Psychopathology, 36(2), 9931004. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095457942300024X
Choate AM, Bornovalova MA, Hipwell AE, Chung T & Stepp SD. (2023). Mutualistic processes in the development of psychopathology: The special case of borderline personality disorder. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 132(2), 185197. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000800
Byrd AL, Frigoletto OA, Vine V, Vanwoerden S, Jennings JR, Zalewski M & Stepp SD. (2023). Maternal invalidation and child RSA reactivity to frustration interact to predict teacher-reported aggression among at-risk preschoolers. Psychological medicine, 53(13), 63666375. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291722003713
Vine V, Byrd AL, Mohr H, Scott LN, Beeney JE, Stepp SD. (2020) The structure of psychopathology in a sample of clinically referred, emotionally dysregulated early adolescents. (2020) Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 1-15.

Education

PhD, Clinical Psychology, University of Missouri

Internship

Clinical Psychology, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC

Postdoctoral

Clinical Psychology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine