JOSEPH E. BEENEY Pennsylvania State University, Department of Psychology 545 Bruce V. Moore Bldg., University Park, PA 16802 E-mail: jeb425@psu.edu Education: 2007-Present The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, Doctoral Student, Clinical Psychology 2005-2007 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, Master of Science, Clinical Psychology 2004-2005 Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, BA in Psychology 1996-2000 University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, BA in Literature Honors and Awards: 2012 Raymond Lombra Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research in the Social Sciences 2012 Pennsylvania State University Alumni Dissertation Award 2011 Psychology Graduate Student Outstanding Publication Award 2010 Pennsylvania Psychological Foundation Education Award 2010 NIMH R36 Mental Health Dissertation Grant 2010 Wisniewski Family Enhancement Fund Award 2009 Research and Graduate Studies Office Dissertation Award 2009 Pennsylvania State University Award for Research with Diverse Populations 2009 Pennsylvania State University Doctoral Research Fellowship Application Incentive Award 2006 The Pennsylvania State University Graduate Exhibition, 2 nd Place Poster Presentation, Social and Behavioral Sciences 2005 Four-Year University Graduate Fellowship (UGF) 2005 University Graduate Fellowship Research Award 2005 summa cum laude, HSU 2000 College Honors, Honors in Major, UCSC 1996 Margaret Stegner Scholarship Publications: Beeney, J.E., K.N. Levy. (in preparation). Neural Correlates of Identity Diffusion in Borderline Personality Disorder.
Beeney, J.E., Ellison, W.D. & Levy, K.N. (in preparation). Meta-analysis of structural MRI findings in Borderline Personality, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder. Beeney, J.E., Ellison, W.D. & Levy, K.N. (in preparation). Experimental evidence of self fragmentation and disintegration in Borderline Personality Disorder. Beeney, J.E., Levy, K.N. (in preparation). Effects of rejection on mental state decoding in Borderline Personality Disorder: an fmri investigation. Levy, K.N., Beeney, J.E. (in preparation). Vigilance towards threat in Borderline Personality Disorder: an fmri investigation. Levy, K.N., Beeney, J.E. (in preparation). Attachment styles account for gender differences in Jealousy concerns: evidence from functional imaging. Beeney, J.E., Levy, K.N. (in preparation). Physiological Correlates of Interpersonal Hypersensitivity in Borderline Personality Disorder. Levy, K.N., Beeney, J.E., Cloutheir, T., Wasserman, R.H., & Clarkin, J.F. (in preparation). Psychotherapy in three treatments for Borderline personality disorder. Psychotherapy Research. Levy, K.N., Meehan, K.B., Beeney, J.B., Ellison, W.D., & Temes, T.M. (in preparation). Ethics in the evaluation and treatment of personality disorders: Evidence based principles, their limits and implications for assessment, treatment, training, and funding. Beeney, J.E., Levy, K.N., Franklin, R., & Adams, R.B. (prepared manuscript). Empathy and Attachment: an fmri investigation. Beeney, J.E., Franklin, R., Levy, K.N., & Adams, R.B. (2011). I feel your pain: Neural responses to vicarious rejection. Social Neuroscience. 6(4), 369-376. Levy, K.N., Beeney, J.E., & Temes, C.M. (2011). Attachment and its vicissitudes in Borderline Personality Disorder. Current Psychiatry Reports, 13, 50-59. Levy, K.N., Beeney, J.E., Wasserman, R.H., & Clarkin, J.F. (2010). Conflict begets conflict: executive attention, mental state vacillations and the therapeutic alliance in Borderline Personality Disorder. Psychotherapy Research. 20(10), 413-422. Beeney, J.E. & Arnett, P.A. (2008). Endorsement of self-report neurovegetative items of depression is associated with multiple sclerosis disease symptoms. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
Arnett, P.A., Barwick, F.H., & Beeney, J.E. (2008). Depression in Multiple Sclerosis: Review and Theoretical Proposal. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. Arnett, P.A., Barwick, F.H., & Beeney, J.E. (2008). Neuropsychology and Neuroscience of Autoimmune Disorders: Multiple Sclerosis and Guillan-Barré. Handbook of Medical Neuropsychology: Applications of Cognitive Neuroscience (C. Armstrong & L. Morrow, Eds.). Beeney, J.E. & Arnett, P.A. (2008). Stress and memory bias interact to predict depression in multiple sclerosis. Neuropsychology, 22(1) 118-126. Aberson, C.A. & Beeney, J.E. (2007). Does substance use impact implicit association test reliabilities? Journal of Social Psychology, 147, 27-40. Presentations: Beeney, J.E. & Levy, K.N. Can basic neuroscience research tell us anything about psychotherapy? Paper presented at the 2011 meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Washington, DC. Franklin, R. G., Jr., Beeney, J. E., Levy, K. N., & Adams, R. B., Jr. "I feel your pain: Interpersonal familiarity modulates neural responses to empathically experienced rejection. Paper presented at the 2010 meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL. Fortunato, C. K., Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., Ram, N., Wadlinger, H., & Beeney, J. Relationships among neurobiology, parenting, and children s psychopathology: Implications for early childhood intervention. Presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Society of Research in Psychopathology, Seattle, WA. Beeney, J.E., Levy, K.N., Wasserman, R.H., & Clarkin, J.F. Alliance as Secure Base: Attachment, Alliance and Mentalization in therapy with individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder. Paper presented at the 2010 Society for Psychotherapy Research Conference, Monterey, CA. Beeney, J.E., Levy, K.N., Wasserman, R.H., & Clarkin, J.F. Conflict begets conflict: Executive attention, mental state vacillations and the therapeutic alliance in treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Paper presented at the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Society for Psychotherapy Research Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Levy, K.N., Beeney, J.E., Wasserman, R.H., & Clarkin, J.F. Alliance at the Border. Paper presented at the 2009 International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders Conference, New York, NY.
Beeney, J.E. Emotional Reserve Capacity: Depression and domain overlap in multiple sclerosis. Paper presented at The 2009 International Neuropsychological Society Conference, Atlanta, GA. Beeney, J.E. & Levy, K.N. Towards Being Neither Brainless nor Mindless: Neuroscience Methods for Understanding Mechanisms of Psychotherapy. Paper presented at The 2008 Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration Conference, Boston, MA. Beeney, J.E. & Arnett, P.A. Depression mediates the relationship between executive dysfunction and hostility in Multiple Sclerosis. Poster presented at The 2008 International Neuropsychological Society Conference, Kona, HI. Beeney, J.E. & Arnett, P.A. Endorsement of self-report neurovegetative items of depression is associated with multiple sclerosis disease symptoms. Poster presented at The 2007 National Association of Neuropsychology Conference, Scottsdale, AZ. Beeney, J.E. & Arnett, P.A. Stress and memory bias interact to predict depression in multiple sclerosis. Poster presented at The 2007 International Neuropsychological Society Conference, Boston, MA. Beeney, J.E. & Arnett, P.A. Stress and memory bias interact to predict depression in multiple sclerosis. Poster presented at The 2006 Pennsylvania State University Graduate Exhibition. Beeney, J.E., & Aberson, C.L. Welfare Status, Race and Responsibility in Assessments of Character. Poster presented at meeting of the Western Psychological Association. Beeney, J.E., Easley, D., Berry, S., Aberson, C.L. How are Implicit Attitude Reliabilities Impacted by Substance Use? Poster presented at meeting of the Western Psychological Association. Research Trainings: Statistical Parametric Mapping 8 for Basic and Clinical Investigators Weeklong intensive workshop focused on analysis of fmri data using the SPM8 software package. Conducted by Tom Zeffiro and Robert Savoy, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, March 2010. ERP Boot Camp - Three-day intensive workshop providing training on data collection and analysis issues involving the event-related potential approach to EEG. Conducted by Dr. Steve Luck, October 5, 2008. Reflective Functioning Coding Workshop - Intensive workshop covering the theoretical background, empirical findings, and scoring of reflective functioning. Conducted by Dr. Kenneth N. Levy and Kevin Meehan, The Pennsylvania State University, June 2009
Funding: NIMH R36 Mental Health Dissertation Grant Physiological Correlates of Interpersonal Interaction in Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder PI: Joseph E Beeney Amount: $72,000 (Stipend + $30,000 research costs) Social Life and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC) Self Processing in Borderline Personality Disorder PI: Joseph E Beeney Amount: $11, 232 Research Experience: 2006-Present Doctoral Student, Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University PI: Kenneth N. Levy, Ph.D. Involved in research examining the neuroscience of interpersonal relationships in Borderline Personality Disorder. Responsibilities include the preparation and writing of manuscripts and conference presentations, fmri data collection and analysis using SPM8, EEG data collection and analysis using EEGlab, Netstation and Brain Vision Analyzer, coding data, conducting clinical interviews, and coding psychotherapy sessions for therapeutic alliance and process. 2009-2010 Research Assistant, Child Brain Development Lab PI: Lisa Gatzke-Kopp, Ph.D. Paid RA position cleaning and analyzing heart rate (respiratory sinus arrhythmia and pre-ejection period) and skin conductance data collected from children with ADHD and Conduct Disorder, using Mindware software. 2007-2008 Research Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University Concussion Progam, Pennsylvania State University PI: Peter Arnett, Ph.D. Involved in administration of Concussion program, supervising training of undergraduate research assistants in using neuropsychological tests, conducting neuropsychological tests, oversight of annual baseline testing of athletes, supervise data management. 2005-Present Doctoral Student, Multiple Sclerosis Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University PI: Peter Arnett, Ph.D. Involved in research on biological, neuropsychological, cognitive and psychosocial factors related to depression in Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Also
involved in research regarding problems related to diagnosing depression in the context of MS, particularly difficulties with disease/depression symptom overlap. Responsibilities include data analysis, manuscript preparation and writing, preparation of conference presentations, superivision of undergraduate research assistants, and neuropsychological testing of individuals with MS. 2004-2005 Independent Research, Humboldt State University PI: Joseph Beeney Proposed, designed and conducted original project, supervised by Chris Aberson, Ph.D., investigating race, class and implicit bias; data input and analysis using SPSS; write-up. 2004-2005 Research Assistant, Humboldt State University, Department of Psychology. PI: Chris Aberson, Ph.D. Research on the Implicit Association Test, including the impact of contact with racial groups on Implicit Associations and the impact of substance use on implicit association reliabilities. Responsibilities included data collection, literature review, abstract and manuscript preparation, data analysis using SPSS, lead organization of lab poster presentation. 2004-2005 Research Assistant, Humboldt State University, Department of Psychology. PI: William Reynolds Research investigating a number of issues of mental wellness in college students. Duties included data collection and data entry. Neuroscience Software Experience Statistical Parametric Mapping 8 (SPM8) - Intermediate FMIRB Software Library (FSL) - Intermediate Brain Vision Analyzer (BVA) - Intermediate Netstation - four years - Intermediate EEGlab - Novice Matlab Programming - Novice Clinical Experience 2005-Present Staff Therapist/Clinic Assistant, Pennsylvania State University Psychological Clinic In a University-based community mental health setting, I engaged in supervised experiences in psychotherapy, clinical assessment and neuropsychological assessment. Working as a clinic assistant for several years, I have worked with individuals dealing with a full spectrum of Axis I and II disorders. I have treated individuals from diverse ethnic and
socioeconomic backgrounds. My supervision experiences include both Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic Orientations, in 3-hour group supervision format and 1-hour individual supervision each week. Psychotherapy: Close to 1300 hours individual psychotherapy experience. Group Psychotherapy: Co-led a year-long psychotherapy process group with individuals with chronic mental health difficulties. Diagnostic Assessment: Extensive training in diagnostic assessments using semi-structured interviews, including the SCID-I, ADIS and IPDE. Neuropsychological Assessment: Extensive training in neuropsychological assessment with individuals with Multiple Sclerosis, Dementias, ADHD, Traumatic Brain Injury and Mental Retardation. 2005-2008 Research Assistant, Multiple Sclerosis and Depression Laboratory. Conducted standardized batteries of neuropsychological tests with individuals with Multiple Sclerosis participating in a longitudinal study of cognitive and emotional functioning. Wrote reports, presented to participants, on neuropsychological changes. 2006-2007 Clinic Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University Concussion Progam. Conducted neuropsychological testing at baseline and after acute concussion with undergraduates participating in NCAA Division I sports. 2004-2005 Crisis Worker, Humboldt Domestic Violence Services, Arcata, CA Domestic violence crisis calls, interviews and pick-up for emergency sheltering, initial intake to shelter services. Specialized Clinical Trainings: Transference Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder Bi-weekly, 6 month didactic instruction and case supervision in treatment for individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder, Conducted by Dr. Frank Yeomans, via internet, November 2009-April 2010. International Personality Disorders Examination Intensive workshop covering the theoretical background, empirical findings, and administration and scoring of the International Personality Disorders Examination. Conducted by Dr. Kenneth N. Levy and Dr. Aaron Pincus, The Pennsylvania State University, June, 2007. Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule Intensive workshop covering the theoretical background, empirical findings, and administration and scoring of the ADIS. Conducted by Dr. Michele Newman and Dr. Louis Castonguay, The Pennsylvania State University, June, 2007. Teaching Experience
Fall 2009 Teaching Assistant, Senior Seminar, The mind and brain of madness: psychological and neuroscience perspectives on psychopathology (PSYCH 490), Penn State University. Responsibilities included several guest lectures, graded class assignments, met with students regarding improving writing in science, tracked grades. Spring 2007 Teaching Assistant, Senior Seminar, The Neuropsychology of Sports Related Concussion (PSYCH 497F), Penn State University Responsibilities included lecturing to 100+ students during instructor absences, proctoring exams, grading papers and homework assignments. Fall 2006 Teaching Assistant, Clinical Assessment (PSY 554), Penn State University Responsibilities included training graduates students in the proper administration and scoring of the WAIS-III intelligence battery, supervision of multiple administrations to undergraduate students, and feedback. Human Services Experience: Human Resources Specialist, Mendocino Coast District Hospital, Fort Bragg, California January 2002 January 2004. Duties: counseled employees, supervised department work flow, organized employee trainings, developed candidate skill assessments, recruited and interviewed health care professionals. Affiliations 2008-present Student Member, American Psychological Association 2007-present Student Member, Society for Psychotherapy Research 2007-present Student Member, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration 2006-present Student Member, International Neuropsychological Society 2006-present Student Member, National Association of Neuropsychology Professional Activities: Co-Founder, AXONS Graduate Student Neuroscience Group Member, BRIDGE Diversity Workgroup President, Humboldt State University Chapter of Psi Chi, 2004-2005