Jackie O’Brien was awarded a training fellowship through the NIH-funded Oregon Students Learn and Experience Research (OSLER) TL1 program!  The OHSU-based OSLER TL1 program provides graduate and post-doctoral training in clinical and translational research including basic science, behavioral science, social science, and public health.

Jackie will be mentored by Maureen Zalewski and OHSU professor Anna Wilson. Her OSLER fellowship will expand her training in dual generation research approaches that focus on physiological mechanisms, allow her to gain experience in an academic medical center working with patient populations, and complete formalized training in translational science skills.

Congratulations Jackie!

Click the link below to read about a recent review article from our lab featured on Psychology Today.

The Relation Between Invalidating Parenting and BPD

Click the link(s) below to listen to Dr. Zalewski’s recent podcast with Dr. Andrea Gold explaining what we know about child development in the context of maternal Borderline Personality Disorder.

Link to Podcast

Link to Presentation

Check out some of the START lab’s recent work:

Identifying novel applications of dialectical behavior therapy: Considering emotion regulation and parenting

January 3rd, 2018

Dr. Maureen Zalewski has been chosen as a rising star by the Association for Psychological Science! The Rising Star designation recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.

Link to Association for Psychological Science: Rising Stars

October 15th, 2017

The Society of Clinical Psychology post by Zalewski, Goodman, Cole, and McLaughlin corresponds with a new Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice article titled, “Clinical Considerations when Treating Adults who are Parents.”

Link to Blog Post: Clinical Considerations When Clients Have Children

September 25^th, 2017

Congratulations to Jennifer Lewis, the 2017 recipient of the ISITDBT Student Research Award on her research examining brain-based changes in emotion regulation as a mediator of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy skills on symptom reduction. This award is given to graduate students and postdoctoral students pursuing careers in DBT research.

ISITDBT Website

Spring 2017

Dr. Maureen Zalewski recently received funding from the National Institute of Mental Health for a five year clinical trial. With this, she aims to determine if it is possible to restore healthy trajectories of emotion regulation in children by treating mothers with dialectical behavioral therapy, an effective therapy for BPD. This study may identify a modifiable pathway by which maternal BPD places offspring at risk for later mental disorders, and aims quantify how much improvement in children’s ability to regulate their emotions can be achieved by treating mothers alone. Knowledge gained may lead to additional prevention interventions focused on a mother to modify a child’s environment.

NIMH Website