Shelley McMain

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Shelley McMain is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Shelley McMain has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Clinical Psychology, 27 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 14 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Shelley McMain's work include Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (66 papers), Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (43 papers) and Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (18 papers). Shelley McMain is often cited by papers focused on Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (66 papers), Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (43 papers) and Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (18 papers). Shelley McMain collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Shelley McMain's co-authors include Paul S. Links, Tim Guimond, David L. Streiner, Lorne Korman, Anthony C. Ruocco, William Gnam, Tali Boritz, Ryan Barnhart, Lois W. Choi‐Kain and Mark A. Lau and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and Biological Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Shelley McMain

84 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Randomized Trial of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Versus General Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shelley McMain Canada	30	2.5k	770	532	401	279	88	2.9k
Attila J. Pulay Hungary	16	2.0k 0.8×	719 0.9×	393 0.7×	297 0.7×	300 1.1×	27	2.6k
J. Christopher Fowler United States	28	1.9k 0.8×	546 0.7×	279 0.5×	503 1.3×	479 1.7×	115	2.9k
Ingrid Dyck United States	31	3.4k 1.4×	906 1.2×	857 1.6×	1.1k 2.8×	400 1.4×	46	3.9k
Mark R. Serper United States	29	919 0.4×	1.2k 1.5×	299 0.6×	445 1.1×	268 1.0×	68	2.1k
Roel Verheul Netherlands	40	4.5k 1.8×	1.0k 1.3×	1.6k 3.1×	382 1.0×	310 1.1×	97	5.0k
William S. Edell United States	30	1.6k 0.6×	875 1.1×	251 0.5×	265 0.7×	194 0.7×	58	2.2k
Henning Saß Germany	22	1.7k 0.7×	841 1.1×	352 0.7×	301 0.8×	256 0.9×	116	2.6k
Stephen W. Hurt United States	29	1.9k 0.8×	917 1.2×	351 0.7×	278 0.7×	220 0.8×	70	2.7k
Rachel L. Tomko United States	26	1.3k 0.5×	436 0.6×	245 0.5×	452 1.1×	183 0.7×	104	2.5k
Jan Ivar Røssberg Norway	35	1.5k 0.6×	1.7k 2.2×	681 1.3×	449 1.1×	554 2.0×	123	3.0k

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Kuo, Janice R., et al.. (2025). Which one impacts the other?: The relationship between change in borderline personality disorder severity and change in posttraumatic stress disorder severity among individuals in dialectical behavior therapy. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 190. 104747–104747. 1 indexed citations

Jones, Brett D. M., Wei Wang, Juveria Zaheer, et al.. (2025). A Digital Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Intervention for Acute Suicidality in Psychiatric Inpatients: A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Study: Intervention numérique en thérapie comportementale dialectique en cas de suicidabilité aiguë de patients hospitalisés en psychiatrie : Étude de faisabilité contrôlée à répartition aléatoire. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 70(11). 856–864.

Vonderlin, Ruben, S. Koch, Ulrich Voderholzer, et al.. (2025). The Borderline Symptom List–Interview: development and psychometric evaluation of an observer-based instrument for assessing symptom severity in borderline personality disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation. 12(1). 33–33.

Vonderlin, Ruben, Tali Boritz, Stefanie Lis, et al.. (2024). Acceptance, Safety, and Effect Sizes in Online Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Interventional Pilot Study. JMIR Formative Research. 9. e66181–e66181. 1 indexed citations

Stalujanis, Esther, et al.. (2024). Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder. Psychotherapy Research. 35(4). 529–545. 3 indexed citations

Lisoway, Amanda, et al.. (2023). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF Val66Met) in borderline personality disorder: Associated with eating disorder comorbidity but not psychotherapy response. 43-44. 100114–100114. 2 indexed citations

Traynor, Jenna, Shelley McMain, Alexander L. Chapman, et al.. (2023). Pretreatment cognitive performance is associated with differential self-harm outcomes in 6 v. 12-months of dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder. Psychological Medicine. 54(7). 1350–1360. 1 indexed citations

Traynor, Jenna, Anthony C. Ruocco, Shelley McMain, et al.. (2023). A feasibility trial of conjoint magnetic seizure therapy and dialectical behavior therapy for suicidal patients with borderline personality disorder and treatment-resistant depression. Nature Mental Health. 1(1). 45–54. 5 indexed citations

Maraun, Michael D., et al.. (2023). The role of mindfulness and emotion regulation in dialectical behavioral therapy for borderline personality disorder.. Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment. 15(2). 134–145. 2 indexed citations

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McMain, Shelley, Alexander L. Chapman, Janice R. Kuo, et al.. (2022). The Effectiveness of 6 versus 12 Months of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Noninferiority Randomized Clinical Trial. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 91(6). 382–397. 41 indexed citations

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Kolla, Nathan J., Romina Mizrahi, R. Michael Bagby, et al.. (2020). Elevated fatty acid amide hydrolase in the prefrontal cortex of borderline personality disorder: a [11C]CURB positron emission tomography study. Neuropsychopharmacology. 45(11). 1834–1841. 29 indexed citations

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Keefe, John R., Thomas T. Kim, Robert J. DeRubeis, et al.. (2020). Treatment selection in borderline personality disorder between dialectical behavior therapy and psychodynamic psychiatric management. Psychological Medicine. 51(11). 1829–1837. 28 indexed citations

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Keefe, John R., Shelley McMain, Kevin S. McCarthy, et al.. (2019). A meta-analysis of psychodynamic treatments for borderline and cluster C personality disorders.. Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment. 11(3). 157–169. 17 indexed citations

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Levy, Kenneth N., et al.. (2018). Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 41(4). 711–728. 17 indexed citations

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Ruocco, Anthony C., Achala H. Rodrigo, Shelley McMain, et al.. (2016). Predicting Treatment Outcomes from Prefrontal Cortex Activation for Self-Harming Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder: A Preliminary Study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 10. 220–220. 25 indexed citations

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Daros, Alexander R., et al.. (2015). Executive functions and social cognition in highly lethal self-injuring patients with borderline personality disorder.. Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment. 6(2). 107–116. 30 indexed citations

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Kolla, Nathan J., Alan A. Wilson, Sylvain Houle, et al.. (2014). Elevated Monoamine Oxidase-A Distribution Volume in Borderline Personality Disorder Is Associated With Severity Across Mood Symptoms, Suicidality, and Cognition. Biological Psychiatry. 79(2). 117–126. 32 indexed citations

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McMain, Shelley, et al.. (2013). Dialectical behavior therapy for emotion dysregulation. W.W. Norton eBooks. 6 indexed citations

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Ruocco, Anthony C., et al.. (2012). Neural Correlates of Negative Emotionality in Borderline Personality Disorder: An Activation-Likelihood-Estimation Meta-Analysis. Biological Psychiatry. 73(2). 153–160. 173 indexed citations

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McMain, Shelley. (2007). Effectiveness of Psychosocial Treatments on Suicidality in Personality Disorders. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 52(6_suppl1). 103–114. 11 indexed citations

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