Dan Becker, MD
Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

He received his bachelor’s degree in Humanities from Stanford University and his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin, then completed residency training at Yale University. Dr. Becker’s research interests are primarily in the areas of adolescent and young adult psychopathology, and include substance use disorders, eating disorders, personality disorders, the psychiatric sequelae of trauma exposure, gender and ethnic differences in the expression of psychopathology, adolescent mothers, and integrated behavioral healthcare.

• Outcomes of a Brief Cognitive Skills-Based Intervention (COPE) for Adolescents in the Primary Care Setting.
  Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners 2019 Erlich KJ, Li J, Dillon E, Li M, Becker DF
• Comorbidity of mood and substance use disorders in patients with binge-eating disorder: Associations with personality disorder and eating disorder pathology.
  Journal of psychosomatic research 2015 Becker DF, Grilo CM
• Being with the patient: the use of "clinical evidence," reconsidered.
  The Journal of nervous and mental disease 2013 Harper G, Becker DF, Copans SA, Flaherty LT, Ghalib K, Gharib K, Krasner AJ, Kwok S, Onesti SJ, Wittenberg J, Committee on Adolescence, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
• Childhood maltreatment in women with binge-eating disorder: associations with psychiatric comorbidity, psychological functioning, and eating pathology.
  Eating and weight disorders : EWD 2011 Becker DF, Grilo CM
• Exploratory factor analysis of borderline personality disorder criteria in monolingual Hispanic outpatients with substance use disorders.
  Psychiatry research 2010 Becker DF, Añez LM, Paris M, Grilo CM
• The prevalence and structure of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder in Hispanic psychiatric outpatients.
  Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry 2010 Ansell EB, Pinto A, Crosby RD, Becker DF, Añez LM, Paris M, Grilo CM
• Psychiatric, behavioral, and attitudinal correlates of avoidant and obsessive-compulsive personality pathology in patients with binge-eating disorder.
  Comprehensive psychiatry 2010 Becker DF, Masheb RM, White MA, Grilo CM
• Factor structure and diagnostic efficiency of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, criteria for avoidant personality disorder in Hispanic men and women with substance use disorders.
  Comprehensive psychiatry 2009 Becker DF, Añez LM, Paris M, Bedregal L, Grilo CM
• Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in Bosnian refugees 3 1/2 years after resettlement.
  Journal of rehabilitation research and development 2008 Vojvoda D, Weine SM, McGlashan T, Becker DF, Southwick SM
• Ethnic differences in the predictors of drug and alcohol abuse in hospitalized adolescents.
  The American journal on addictions 2007 Becker DF, Grilo CM
• Prediction of suicidality and violence in hospitalized adolescents: comparisons by sex.
  Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie 2007 Becker DF, Grilo CM
• Exploratory factor analysis of borderline personality disorder criteria in hospitalized adolescents.
  Comprehensive psychiatry 2006 Becker DF, McGlashan TH, Grilo CM
• Prediction of drug and alcohol abuse in hospitalized adolescents: comparisons by gender and substance type.
  Behaviour research and therapy 2005 Becker DF, Grilo CM
• Discriminant efficiency of antisocial and borderline personality disorder criteria in Hispanic men with substance use disorders.
  Comprehensive psychiatry 2005 Becker DF, Grilo CM, Anez LM, Paris M, McGlashan TH
• Case study: the internet as a developmental tool in an adolescent boy with psychosis.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2005 Daley ML, Becker DF, Flaherty LT, Harper G, King RA, Lester P, Milosavljevic N, Onesti SJ, Rappaport N, Schwab-Stone M
• Validation studies of the borderline personality disorder construct in adolescents: implications for theory and practice
  Adolescent Psychiatry 2005 Becker DF, Grilo CM
• Diagnostic efficiency of DSM-IV criteria for borderline personality disorder: an evaluation in Hispanic men and women with substance use disorders.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 2004 Grilo CM, Becker DF, Anez LM, McGlashan TH
• Diagnostic efficiency of borderline personality disorder criteria in hospitalized adolescents: comparison with hospitalized adults.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2002 Becker DF, Grilo CM, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Stability and change of DSM-III-R personality disorder dimensions in adolescents followed up 2 years after psychiatric hospitalization.
  Comprehensive psychiatry 2001 Grilo CM, Becker DF, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Applicability of personality disorder criteria in late adolescence: internal consistency and criterion overlap 2 years after psychiatric hospitalization.
  Journal of personality disorders 2001 Becker DF, Grilo CM, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Comorbidity of borderline personality disorder with other personality disorders in hospitalized adolescents and adults.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2000 Becker DF, Grilo CM, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Concurrent and predictive validity of the personality disorder diagnosis in adolescent inpatients.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1999 Levy KN, Becker DF, Grilo CM, Mattanah JJ, Garnet KE, Quinlan DM, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Case series: PTSD symptoms in adolescent survivors of "ethnic cleansing." Results from a 1-year follow-up study.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1999 Becker DF, Weine SM, Vojvoda D, McGlashan TH
• Applicability of personality disorder criteria to hospitalized adolescents: evaluation of internal consistency and criterion overlap.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1999 Becker DF, Grilo CM, Morey LC, Walker ML, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• PTSD symptoms in Bosnian refugees 1 year after resettlement in the United States.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1998 Weine SM, Vojvoda D, Becker DF, McGlashan TH, Hodzic E, Laub D, Hyman L, Sawyer M, Lazrove S
• Psychiatric morbidity differences in male and female adolescent inpatients with alcohol use disorders
  Journal of Youth and Adolescence 1998 Grilo CM, Becker DF, Fehon DC, Walker ML, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Individual change after genocide in Bosnian survivors of "ethnic cleansing": assessing personality dysfunction.
  Journal of traumatic stress 1998 Weine SM, Becker DF, Vojvoda D, Hodzic E, Sawyer M, Hyman L, Laub D, McGlashan TH
• Controlled study of psychiatric comorbidity in psychiatrically hospitalized young adults with substance use disorders.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1997 Grilo CM, Martino S, Walker ML, Becker DF, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Diagnostic comorbidity in hospitalized adolescents with conduct disorder.
  Comprehensive psychiatry 1997 Fehon DC, Becker DF, Grilo CM, Walker ML, Levy KN, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Psychiatric comorbidity differences in male and female adult psychiatric inpatients with substance use disorders.
  Comprehensive psychiatry 1997 Grilo CM, Martino S, Walker ML, Becker DF, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Childhood trauma histories in adolescent inpatients.
  Journal of traumatic stress 1997 Weine SM, Becker DF, Levy KN, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Personality disorders in adolescents with major depression, substance use disorders, and coexisting major depression and substance use disorders.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 1997 Grilo CM, Walker ML, Becker DF, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Gender differences in personality disorders in psychiatrically hospitalized young adults.
  The Journal of nervous and mental disease 1996 Grilo CM, Becker DF, Walker ML, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Gender differences in personality disorders in psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1996 Grilo CM, Becker DF, Fehon DC, Walker ML, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Conduct disorder, substance use disorders, and coexisting conduct and substance use disorders in adolescent inpatients.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1996 Grilo CM, Becker DF, Fehon DC, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Comorbidity of DSM-III-R axis I and II disorders among female inpatients with eating disorders.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 1996 Grilo CM, Levy KN, Becker DF, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Attentional and intellectual deficits in unmedicated behavior disordered adolescent inpatients
  Journal of Youth and Adolescence 1996 Becker DF, Edell WS, Fujioka TA, Levy KN, McGlashan TH
• Adolescent survivors of "ethnic cleansing": observations on the first year in America.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1995 Weine S, Becker DF, McGlashan TH, Vojvoda D, Hartman S, Robbins JP
• Psychiatric comorbidity in adolescent inpatients with substance use disorders.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1995 Grilo CM, Becker DF, Walker ML, Levy KN, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Eating disorders with and without substance use disorders: a comparative study of inpatients.
  Comprehensive psychiatry 1995 Grilo CM, Becker DF, Levy KN, Walker ML, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Diagnostic stability in adolescents followed up 2 years after hospitalization.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1995 Mattanah JJ, Becker DF, Levy KN, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Psychiatric consequences of "ethnic cleansing": clinical assessments and trauma testimonies of newly resettled Bosnian refugees.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1995 Weine SM, Becker DF, McGlashan TH, Laub D, Lazrove S, Vojvoda D, Hyman L
• Eating disorders in female inpatients with versus without substance use disorders.
  Addictive behaviors 1995 Grilo CM, Levy KN, Becker DF, Edell WS, McGlashan TH
• Changes in family emotional climate and course of psychiatric illness in hospitalized young adults and adolescents
  New Trends in Experimental and Clinical Psychiatry 1993 Doane JA, Becker DF
• Effects of emotion on perceptual asymmetry in adolescent inpatients with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1993 Becker DF, Doane JA, Wexler BE