Alex Behn

  • Doctor en Psicología Clínica, Columbia University, Nueva York.
  • Profesor Asociado, Escuela de Psicología UC
  • Director de Investigación, Instituto Milenio para la Investigación en Depresión  y Personalidad (MIDAP)
  • Coordinador, Unidad de Salud Mental, Centro Médico San Joaquín, Red de Salud UC-Christus

Presentación

Sus líneas de investigación incluyen psicoterapia, heterogeneidad de la depresión,  trastorno límite de la personalidad y tecnología y salud mental.

Alex Behn obtuvo su pregrado en la Universidad Diego Portales para después obtener un Master of Science, Master of Philosophy y PhD en Psicología Clínica en Teachers College, Columbia University. Adicionalmente, realizó su internado pre-doctoral en Montefiore Medical Center y ha sido receptor de un Psychoanalytic Fellowship del Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research y de la New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

Docencia

  • Métodos de Investigación en Psicología Clínica y Psicoterapia
  • Personalidad & Identidad
  • Diagnóstico Clínico y Entrevista Psicológica
  • Supervisión Práctica Profesional Clínica
  • Coloquio Doctoral III

Proyectos de Investigación Activos

Using Technology to Facilitate International Research on Diagnosis and Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescence including Low- and Middle-Income Countries – A Strategy based on Direct Clinical Benefit
Botnar Foundation
2019 – 2023

Efectos psicológicos de la cuarentena y/o distanciamiento social: un estudio longitudinal intensivo
MIDAP
2020 –

The role of borderline personality disorder features in performance on a cooperative task: focusing on brain wave synchrony as a mechanism to explain performance differences.
Instituto Milenio Para la Investigación en Depresión y Personalidad
2018 –

The Psychopathology of Everyday-Life of Borderline Personality Disorder: towards an integrative model of disease mechanisms.

Fondo INICIA-VRI

2021 –

Towards a comprehensive model of the therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy with depressed patients: understanding the relationship between the alliance, patient/therapist characteristics, process variables, and outcome
Programa: FONDECYT
Rol: Coinvestigador(a) | Folio/N°: 1191299 | 2019 – 2023

International network for the study of the heterogeneity of depression
Programa: PCI
Rol: Inv. Responsable | Folio/N°: REDES18010 | 2018 – 2020

Publicaciones Recientes

  • Fischer, C., Cottin, M., Behn, A., Errázuriz, P., & Díaz, R. (2019). What makes a difficult patient so difficult? Examining the therapist’s experience beyond patient characteristics. Journal of clinical psychology, 75(5), 898-911.
  • Behn, A. (2019). Working with clients at the intersection of depression and personality dysfunction: Scientific and clinical findings regarding complex depression. Journal of clinical psychology, 75(5), 819-823.
  • Behn, A., Vöhringer, P. A., Martínez, P., Domínguez, A. P., González, A., Carrasco, M. I., & Gloger, S. (2020). Validación de la versión en español del Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form en Chile, en una muestra de pacientes con depresión clínica. Revista médica de Chile, 148(3), 336-343.
  • Errázuriz, P., Fischer, C., Behn, A., Letelier, C., & Monari, M. (2019). Orientaciones prácticas para psicoterapeutas que atienden a pacientes con TEPT después de un desastre natural. Psykhe (Santiago), 28(1), 1-13.
  • Behn, A., Davanzo, A., & Errázuriz, P. (2018). Client and therapist match on gender, age, and income: Does match within the therapeutic dyad predict early growth in the therapeutic alliance?. Journal of clinical psychology, 74(9), 1403-1421.
  • Errázuriz, P., Opazo, S., Behn, A., Silva, O., & Gloger, S. (2017). Spanish adaptation and validation of the Outcome Questionnaire OQ-30.2. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 673.
  • Behn, A. J., Errázuriz, P. A., Cottin, M., & Fischer, C. (2018). Change in symptomatic burden and life satisfaction during short‐term psychotherapy: Focusing on the role of family income. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 18(2), 133-142.
  • Gloger, S., Vöhringer, P. A., Martínez, P., Chacón, M. V., Cáceres, C., Diez de Medina, D., … & Behn, A. (2021). The contribution of early adverse stress to complex and severe depression in depressed outpatients. Depression and Anxiety, 38(4), 431-438.
  • Behn, A., Herpertz, S. C., & Krause, M. (2018). The Interaction Between Depression and Personality Dysfunction: State of the Art, Current Challenges, and Future Directions. Introduction to the Special Section. Psykhe, 27(2).
  • Cottin, M., Hernández, C. E., Núñez, C., Labbé, N., Quevedo, I. Y., Davanzo, A., & Behn, A. J. (2021). “What if we get sick?”: Spanish Adaptation and Validation of the Fear of Illness and Virus Evaluation Scale (FIVE) in a non-clinical sample exposed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 332.
  • Banyard, H., Behn, A. J., & Delgadillo, J. (2021). Personality Disorders and Their Relation to Treatment Outcomes in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 1-16.
  • Gloger, S., Martínez, P., Behn, A., Chacón, M. V., Cottin, M., Diez de Medina, D., & Vöhringer, P. A. (2021). Population-attributable risk of adverse childhood experiences for high suicide risk, psychiatric admissions, and recurrent depression, in depressed outpatients. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12(1), 1874600.