Carla Sharp, PhD

Dr. Carla Sharp is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Houston and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, and director of the Adolescent Diagnosis Assessment Prevention and Treatment (ADAPT) clinic and the Developmental Psychopathology Lab. Her work has significantly advanced the scientific understanding of the phenomenology, causes, correlates and treatment of personality pathology across the lifespan, with a specific focus on mentalizing as cause, correlate and mechanism of change. She has published over 340 peer reviewed publications, 50 book chapters and 8 books. Her research has been continuously funded by the NIH for over a decade. She has won multiple awards recognizing her impact in the field of personality disorders and serve as editor or co-editor on multiple journals. She continues to be clinically active through her NIH funded intervention research in addition to supervising PhD level students in their clinical work.