Codi Sharp
Biographic Data
| ID | 202795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Codi Sharp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Codi |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharp |
| SIGNATURE | SHARP C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8349-4701 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Personality disorder in young people
Personality disorders are an often-misunderstood phenomenon. Many of the persistent misconceptions are related to the fact that personality and personality disorder are understood as a simple collection of a person’s trait characteristics. In this paper, we demystify the meaning of personality and personality disorder by drawing on decades of research on personality development and more recent research on the development of personality disorders.…
Psychometric Properties and Clinical Utility of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 -Brief Form (PID-5-BF) in a U.S. Adolescent Sample
139) samples of adolescents aged 12 to 17 were analyzed. Exploratory structural equation modeling supported the five-factor structure, with good to excellent internal consistency. Nomological validity was demonstrated through correlations with other measures of personality and psychopathology. All PID-5-BF domains, except antagonism, differed significantly between adolescents with borderline PD (BPD), non-BPD inpatients, and community controls. H…
A Neural Network Approach to Comparing AMPD and Object Relations Theory for Personality Disorder Assessment
While prior research has explored the relationship between Object Relations Theory (ORT) and the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD), comprehensive comparisons across diverse clinical populations and methodologies remain limited. This study investigated the predictive accuracy of AMPD and ORT in identifying personality psychopathology using neural network models within a mixed sample of 639 participants (229 non-clinical undergradu…
Life Stories Matter
INTRODUCTION: Recent advances in psychiatric nosology replace categorical personality disorder diagnoses with dimensional frameworks characterized by level of personality functioning (LPF) and maladaptive traits. Increased emphasis on the assessment of self-functioning with LPF has led scholars to advocate for the inclusion of narrative identity into these models. The current study aimed to examine the utility of narrative identity for the assess…
Uncovering trajectories of personality functioning in adolescence and their associations with baseline psychopathology
As the conceptualization of personality disorders shifts from a categorical to a dimensional assessment, understanding the trajectory of personality functioning in adolescence becomes crucial. Thus, this study aimed to examine distinct trajectories of personality functioning over a two-year period in a community sample of adolescents, while identifying associated factors. A three-wave longitudinal study with a one-year interval between assessment…
Parent-child discrepancies in reports of pre- and early adolescent level of personality functioning
Given the research consensus that personality disorder often onsets in adolescence, more work is needed to investigate parent-child discrepancies in reporting on personality disorder, particularly during the pre- and early adolescent period when more significant impairment in personality functioning may be developing or can already be observed. The current study examined concordance of parent- and child-reported level of personality functioning (…
First Psychometric Evaluation of the English Version of the Semi-Structured Interview for Personality Functioning (STiP-5.1)
The Alternative Model for Personality Disorders provides a dimensional framework for the conceptualization of personality disorders where Criterion A concerns the assessment of one’s level of personality functioning (LPF). This study examines the psychometric properties of the English translation of the Semi-Structured Interview for Personality Functioning (STiP-5.1) to validate this translation for the assessment of LPF in English-speaking popul…
Clinical Applications and Case Studies Section Comment on
This invited commentary evaluates the impact of Lakhani and colleagues who reported on two studies aimed at developing and evaluating a new tool for the assessment of mentalizing capacity. The commentary places the work of Lakhani et al. in the context of routine clinical care and discusses additional approaches to the assessment of mentalizing that may be considered. The commentary furthermore highlights the importance of the assessment of menta…
Opportunities for the AMPD
Isn’t it a bit ironic? The Alternative Model of Personality Disorders (AMPD) was proposed as a political and conceptual compromise to reconcile and possibly even please two different traditions and
Mentalization-based approaches to comorbid personality pathology and treatment-resistant depression
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Hope as Risk and Protective Factors for Mental Health in the Context of Covid-19 Stress
Naïve Observers’ Perceptions of Hospitalized and Community Adolescents’ Depressive Symptoms
15.31, henceforth referred to as targets). They reported on their depressive symptoms and completed the Child Attachment Interview (CAI; Shmueli-Goetz et al., 2008). Naïve observers (N = 52 college students split in two rounds), unaware of all other information about targets, read transcripts of targets' CAI interviews; using solely that information, they rated targets' depressive symptoms. Observers also assessed their confidence in their evalua…
Awareness of Narrative Identity Questionnaire (Aniq) in Early Adolescents
Identity formation is central to adolescent development. Challenges in establishing a stable sense of self is associated with maladaptive identity function, which has been recognized as a core feature of personality pathology. The narrative identity framework offers a unique lens to garner salient information about one’s sense of self. The Awareness of Narrative Identity Questionnaire (ANIQ) is a self-report measure of narrative identity validate…
Attachment-Based Mentalization Profiles of Iranian Children
Mentalization, operationalized as reflective functioning (RF), is the ability to understand one's own and another's mental world implicitly or explicitly. RF is a newly discovered research field in Iran and is largely under-studied in Eastern cultures in general, underscoring the high need for cross-cultural studies in this field of research. A qualitative method was used to examine the ability to understand, process, and respond to high-arousal …
Pregnancy and STI/HIV prevention intervention preferences of South African adolescent girls
South African adolescent girls experience high rates of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections including HIV. To inform culturally-tailored dual protection interventions to prevent both unintended pregnancy and STIs/HIV, this study qualitatively examined girls’ sexual health intervention preferences. Participants were aged 14–17 years old and Sesotho-speaking (N = 25). To elucidate shared cultural beliefs, individual interviews …
In their own words
Sensitive and responsive caregiving is a critical protective factor for children in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) during their first 1000 days of life. Health initiatives may benefit from evaluating the experience of caregivers in SSA to understand their parenting experiences. This study utilized linguistic analysis to gain insight into the lived experience of 19 Sesotho-speaking mothers of infants aged 18–30 months in low-income areas of Mangaung, Fr…
Are We Thinking about the Same Disorder? A Trifactor Model Approach to Understand Parents’ and Their Adolescents’ Reports of Borderline Personality Pathology
Multiple informant assessment is the norm when evaluating borderline personality pathology (BPP) in adolescence, especially by including reports from both parents and adolescents. However, these reports tend to be discrepant, and it is unclear how to integrate. The current study used a trifactor model to isolate sources of variance in parents’ and adolescents’ reports of BPP due to their shared and unique perspectives in a sample of 652 inpatient…
The Assessment of Identity Development in Adolescence (Aida) Questionnaire
The Assessment of Identity Development in Adolescence (AIDA) is a recently developed measure of identity diffusion in young people. Originally validated in Switzerland, the English version has not yet been validated. Our aim was to evaluate the AIDA's internal factor structure, internal consistency, incremental validity, and relations to other variables in adolescents and young adults and derive clinical cutoffs for use in clinical settings. Stud…
The Development and Validation of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-8
Emotion regulation difficulties are associated with a range of psychological disorders. A widely used measure of emotion regulation is the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-36). There are also three shortened DERS versions. Consistent with current efforts to build very brief versions of measures, the aim of this research is to develop a briefer DERS and evaluate its construct validity. Study 1 uses IRT methods coupled with content co…
The social domains organization of mentalizing processes in adolescents
BACKGROUND: We propose and evaluate a contribution to the conceptualization and assessment of personality functioning based on social domains and mentalizing hypotheses. Social domains are distinct social contexts, such as with acquaintances and friends, with differentiated expectations regarding participants' behaviours and social attributions. The capacity to organize social participation according to these expectations requires the ability, we…
‘Being a mother is not child's play’
BACKGROUND: The importance of a child's first 1000 days has now been widely accepted by the medical fraternity. Yet, we do not know much about caring practices in low-resource settings. AIM: This study aimed to investigate the caring capabilities of mothers in a low-resource setting. METHOD: In this study, in-depth interviews were conducted with 18 mothers with children aged 30 months or younger to better understand the arrangements, means and en…
Hope and mental health problems among orphans and vulnerable children in South Africa
There are over three million orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) currently living in South Africa. OVC are at high risk for a number of negative outcomes, including poor mental health. Hope has been associated with well-being among youth, including youth in South Africa. However, the relationships between hope and mental health in high-adversity populations such as OVC has not been adequately described. The present study sought to address this…
Maladaptive Self- and Interpersonal Functioning Increments General Psychiatric Severity in the Association with Adolescent Personality Pathology
Dimensionalized diagnostic systems, especially the entry criterion of maladaptive self and interpersonal functioning, hold particular advantages for the downward extension of personality pathology to young persons, but require conceptual clarification. The current study evaluated the distinctiveness of maladaptive self and interpersonal functioning by examining its incremental value over and above general psychiatric severity in the association w…
Mentalization in Typically and Atypically Developing Iranian Children and Its Associations with Age, Sex, and Externalizing/Internalizing Symptoms
Mentalization refers to the ability to understand the mental states of oneself and those of others that motivate action and behavior. Mentalization has generally been linked to adaptive development and healthy functioning whereas diminished mentalization has been associated with maladaptive development and psychopathology. The vast majority of research on mentalization and developmental trajectories, however, is based on Western countries. The ov…
Operationalizing intimacy and identity aspects of personality functioning in relation to personality disorder in adolescents
According to dimensional models of personality pathology, deficits in interpersonal (intimacy and empathy) and self (identity and self-direction) function (Criterion A) are core to all personality disorders. These aspects of personality functioning (Criterion A) have seldom been evaluated for how they might relate to one another in the context of personality pathology in adolescents. Moreover, the use of performance-based measures to evaluate asp…
The Parent's Capacity to Treat the Child as a Psychological Agent
Recent studies of the relationship between parenting and child development have included a focus on the parent's capacity to treat the child as a psychological agent. Several constructs have been developed to refer to this capacity, for example maternal mind‐mindedness, reflective functioning, and parental mentalizing. In this review article, we compare and contrast different constructs from diverse theoretical backgrounds that have been develope…
Romantic Relationships of Female-to-Male Trans Men
The present descriptive study examined the prevalence of romantic relationships in a large-scale international sample of female-to-male (FtM) transgender men, the rates that partners stay together during a gender transition of one of the partners, and the relationship between perceived social support from romantic relationships and the mental health of FtMs. Participants were trans men who completed an anonymous online survey. Of those who were i…
Parent emotional distress and feeding styles in low-income families. The role of parent depression and parenting stress
A Dyadic Analysis of Partner Violence and Adult Attachment
Clarifying the relation of acculturative stress and anxiety/depressive symptoms
These findings suggest the utility of assessing and targeting anxiety sensitivity in the treatment of acculturative stress-related depression/anxiety problems among Hispanic college students. (PsycINFO Database Record
Longitudinal associations of sexual fluidity and health in transgender men and cisgender women and men
Research has just begun to study associations between sexual fluidity and health among cisgender individuals; only one cross-sectional study examined these links among transgender individuals. The goals of the current study were to prospectively examine fluidity in sexual attractions and fluidity in sexual orientation identity, and associations with health-related outcomes. Participants were a community-based sample of 45 transgender men, ages 16…
Housing conditions and mental health of orphans in South Africa
Social Discounting and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Boys
Social discounting refers to the fact that most people assign more value to the welfare of close affiliates than they do to the welfare of distant affiliates—they discount the latter compared to the former. We report the first study to apply a social discounting paradigm to boys. We were particularly interested in investigating the relations between social discounting, age, and externalizing behavior problems (antisocial behavior). Results showed…
Fieldworker reflections on using telephone voice calls to conduct fieldwork amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
The declaration of Covid-19 as a global pandemic on 11 March, 2020, and the disaster management regulations implemented in reply to it had enormous ramifications on ethnographic fieldwork. This situation presented an opportunity to reconsider the methodology used in a research project on lived experiences of childhood health and well-being in Free State province, South Africa. This study explores the argument that technology can establish a virtu…
Using the Colaizzi Method to Explore Intimate Partner Violence Caseworkers’ Subjective Experience
Successful intimate partner violence (IPV) safety, advocacy, and intervention programs require recruitment and retention of persons of experience and commitment. To examine lived experiences of IPV advocates working in transitional shelter programs for women exiting IPV relationships, focus group discussions of 15 transitional housing and IPV shelter caseworkers were analyzed using the Colaizzi seven-step phenomenological method of analysis. Seve…
Housing, Home and Children’s Socio-Emotional Health
The literature linking home and housing with the socio-emotional health of children focuses primarily on the physical attributes of housing. We conducted a pilot study to measure physical and socio-emotional attributes of housing for a sample of 69 children from a low-resource setting in South Africa. We used the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). We analyse…
Community-based mental health support for orphans and vulnerable children in South Africa
Community-based care is receiving increasing global attention as a way to support children who are orphaned or vulnerable due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Using both qualitative and quantitative methodology, this study assesses community-based responses to the well-being of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and compares these responses with the actual mental health of OVC in order to evaluate the South African government's approach of funding co…
Biased Mentalizing in Children Aged Seven to 11
A new approach to the measurement of mentalizing is introduced. Instead of measuring the presence or absence of mentalizing capacity, the current study aimed at developing a mentalizing task that focuses on investigating biases in mentalizing through the use of ambiguous peer‐related social scenarios. The response consistency of 659 children was investigated in a community sample of children aged seven to 11. Confirmatory latent class analysis al…
The Parent's Capacity to Treat the Child as a Psychological Agent
Recent studies of the relationship between parenting and child development have included a focus on the parent's capacity to treat the child as a psychological agent. Several constructs have been developed to refer to this capacity, for example maternal mind‐mindedness, reflective functioning, and parental mentalizing. In this review article, we compare and contrast different constructs from diverse theoretical backgrounds that have been develope…
Social Discounting and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Boys
Social discounting refers to the fact that most people assign more value to the welfare of close affiliates than they do to the welfare of distant affiliates—they discount the latter compared to the former. We report the first study to apply a social discounting paradigm to boys. We were particularly interested in investigating the relations between social discounting, age, and externalizing behavior problems (antisocial behavior). Results showed…
New tricks for an old measure
The Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS), a 30-item self-report measure, is one of the most commonly used scales for the assessment of the personality construct of impulsiveness. It has recently marked 50 years of use in research and clinical settings. The current BIS-11 is held to measure 3 theoretical subtraits, namely, attentional, motor, and non-planning impulsiveness. We evaluated the factor structure of the BIS using full information item bifact…
Water Values in a Ghanaian Small-Scale Gold Mining Community
Water scarcity, quality, and control are growing problems worldwide. In this paper, values associated with water—sociocultural, economic, and chemical—in a small-scale gold mining community in northeastern Ghana are considered. Mining activities have affected the quality of locally scarce water resources. In an area without government provision of water, this situation has also forced community members to develop innovative water strategies that …
Community-based mental health support for orphans and vulnerable children in South Africa
Community-based care is receiving increasing global attention as a way to support children who are orphaned or vulnerable due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Using both qualitative and quantitative methodology, this study assesses community-based responses to the well-being of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and compares these responses with the actual mental health of OVC in order to evaluate the South African government's approach of funding co…
Romantic Relationships of Female-to-Male Trans Men
The present descriptive study examined the prevalence of romantic relationships in a large-scale international sample of female-to-male (FtM) transgender men, the rates that partners stay together during a gender transition of one of the partners, and the relationship between perceived social support from romantic relationships and the mental health of FtMs. Participants were trans men who completed an anonymous online survey. Of those who were i…
Housing conditions and mental health of orphans in South Africa
First Evaluation of a Population-Based Screen to Detect Emotional-Behavior Disorders in Orphaned Children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Criterion-related and construct validity of the Problem Gambling Severity Index in a sample of South African gamblers
The Problem Gambling Severity Index, the scored module of the Canadian Problem Gambling Index, is a population-based survey instrument that is becoming the preferred epidemiological tool for estimating the prevalence of disordered gambling. While some validation evidence for the Problem Gambling Severity Index is available, very little is known about its psychometric characteristics in developing countries or in countries the populations of which…
Anxiety, depression, and HIV symptoms among persons living with HIV/Aids
Hazardous drinking is common among persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and associated with numerous negative health consequences. Despite the well-established negative effects of hazardous drinking among PLWHA, scholarly work has neglected to explore the role of such drinking in regard to anxiety/depressive symptoms and HIV symptom expression. The current study investigated associations between hazardous drinking and anxiety/depressive symptoms …
Parent emotional distress and feeding styles in low-income families. The role of parent depression and parenting stress
Social cognition mediates the relation between attachment schemas and posttraumatic stress disorder
This study provides the 1st support for the application of Sharp, Fonagy, and Allen's (2012) social-cognitive perspective of PTSD to adolescents by showing a link between clinically significant symptoms of PTSD and attachment security through social-cognitive impairment. Findings indicate that improvement in PTSD during medium-stay inpatient treatment is partially driven by baseline attachment security and social-cognitive abilities, highlighting…
Advanced training in child psychology
The aim of this article is to propose some benchmarks for a Doctor of Psychology (DPsych) in advanced training in Child Psychology in South Africa, and to highlight key elements in offering such a programme. In doing so, we use as case illustration an existing DPsych programme currently being offered at the University of the Free State, South Africa. We consider advanced child psychology training to registered psychologists in the clinical, couns…
The Moderating Role of Maternal Depression in the Relation Between Adolescent Behavioral Inhibition and Maternal Critical Expressed Emotion
The Differential Relations Between Empathy and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in Inpatient Adolescents
The Cultural Adaptation of the Disc-IV
The Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC-IV) has been designed for use by trained laypersons so it can be used in developing countries including South Africa. We examine the sociocultural appropriateness of the DISC-IV for Sesotho families. In-depth individual interviews and focus groups were conducted with Sesotho clinicians who used the DISC-IV. The clinicians found it to be a rigorous assessment tool offering new insights into thei…
A Dyadic Analysis of Partner Violence and Adult Attachment
Main and interactive effects of emotion dysregulation and HIV symptom severity on quality of life among persons living with HIV/Aids
HIV symptoms are associated with a poorer quality of life (QOL) among persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Yet, there is little understanding of emotional factors that impact the relation between HIV symptom severity and QOL. The present study examined the main and interactive effects of emotion dysregulation and HIV symptom severity on multiple indices of QOL, including physical (impact of physical problems related to HIV), psychological (frequ…
Caregiver alcohol use and mental health among children orphaned by HIV/Aids in South Africa
Research in the developed world suggests that parental alcohol use negatively impacts child mental health. However, little research has examined these relations among children in the developing world and no studies to date have done so in the context of AIDS-orphanhood. Therefore, the present study tested the interactive effect of AIDS-orphan status with caregiver alcohol use on child mental health. The sample included 742 children (51.2% female;…
Trauma and Aggression
On the Relation Between General Intelligence and Psychopathic Traits
Longitudinal associations of sexual fluidity and health in transgender men and cisgender women and men
Research has just begun to study associations between sexual fluidity and health among cisgender individuals; only one cross-sectional study examined these links among transgender individuals. The goals of the current study were to prospectively examine fluidity in sexual attractions and fluidity in sexual orientation identity, and associations with health-related outcomes. Participants were a community-based sample of 45 transgender men, ages 16…
Clarifying the relation of acculturative stress and anxiety/depressive symptoms
These findings suggest the utility of assessing and targeting anxiety sensitivity in the treatment of acculturative stress-related depression/anxiety problems among Hispanic college students. (PsycINFO Database Record
School connectedness as psychological resilience factor in children affected by HIV/Aids
Children affected by HIV/AIDS are at high risk for poor mental health outcomes. Social and psychological connectedness to school has been identified as an important resilience factor for youth affected by adversity (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2009). School connectedness: Strategies for increasing protective factors among youth. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). Defined as "the belief by students that ad…
Psychology (60 works) · Clinical Psychology (45 works) · Developmental psychology (37 works) · Psychiatry (34 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (27 works) · Medicine (26 works) · Social Psychology (26 works) · Clinical Psychology (25 works) · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (23 works) · Personality (18 works)