Faculty

Stephanie D Stepp, PhD

Stephanie D Stepp, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology

Contact Details

3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
 
PA
 
15213

Education & Training

PhD
Clinical Psychology, University of Missouri
Clinical Psychology, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC
Clinical Psychology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Professional Affiliations

Treasurer, North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders

Research Interests

Borderline personality disorder; Preschool emotion regulation; Proximal markers of suicide risk
Selected Research Publications & Products
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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.

Clinical Interests

Dialectical behavior therapy; Suicide prevention; Mother-child interaction

Education Interests

Research mentorship; Clinician training and supervision