CURRICULM VITAE Date Prepared: September 11, 2011 Part 1: General Information Name: Michael R. Hollander, PhD Office: McLean 115 Mill Street Belmont, MA 02478 Phone: (617) 855-2745 Fax: (617) 855-2832 E-mail: mrhollander@partners.org Education: Doctor of Philosophy (Counseling Psychology) Michigan State University, East Lansing, and Michigan 1979 Post-Doctoral Training: Mclean, Belmont MA 02478: 1979-1981 Licensure: Licensed Psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1981 Lic#2630 Certificate, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Linehan Training Group Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics, University of Washington Academic Appointments: 1979-1981: Clinical Fellow in Psychology Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School 1979-present: Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA Appointments: 1981-1991: Assistant Psychologist Adolescent Day Service, McLean 1983-1991: Attending Psychologist, Adolescent and Family Treatment Unit, McLean 1993-present: Associate Psychologist, McLean 1991-1992: Program Coordinator, North Cottage Adolescent Day, McLean 1992-1997: Director, Child and Adolescent Partial and Residential Service, McLean 1998-present: Senior- Consultant Acute Residential Adolescent Program McLean
2007-present: Director of Training and Senior Consultant 3East Adolescent DBT Program 2008-2011: Director of 3East DBT Partial Program Other Professional Appointments and Major Visiting Appointments: (2000- present) Faculty Department of Child Psychiatry Massachusetts General (2001-2008) Director of Adolescent Services, Two Brattle Center, Cambridge MA (2003-2006) Consultant to the Willow Hill School, Sudbury MA (2004-Present) Dialectical Behavior Therapy Trainer, Behavioral Tech. Seattle WA (2006-2009) Consultant to Germaine-Lawrence, Arlington MA (2002-2004) Board of Trustees Tewksbury Sate, Tewksbury MA and Health Care Service Responsibilities: 1981-1991: Group and Family Therapy, Clinical Administration Supervision of Clinical Psychology Interns and Post-doctoral Fellows Adolescent Day Service, Mclean 1983-1991 Individual, Family and Couples Therapy, Supervised Psychiatric Residents and Post-doctoral Fellows, Adolescent and Family Treatment Unit, McLean 1992-1997: Director of Adolescent Partial and Residential Program, Responsibilities included, Intakes, Clinical oversight of the program, Supervision of Child -Fellows, Post -doctoral Fellows in Clinical Psychology and Psychology Interns 1998-Present: Senior Consultant, Acute Adolescent Residential Program. Responsibilities include bi-weekly Teaching Consultation and weekly Milieu Seminar Major Administrative Responsibilities: 1991-92: Program Coordinator, North Cottage Adolescent Day, McLean. 1992-1997: Director, Child and Adolescent Day and Residential Service, McLean 1998-Present: Senior Consultant Acute Adolescent Residential Program, McLean 2001-2008: Director of Adolescent Services, Two Brattle Center, Cambridge MA 2008-Present: Director of Training, 3East Adolescent DBT Services, McLean 2009-2011: Program Director 3East Adolescent DBT Partial Program, McLean 2010-2011: Program Director 3East at Mill Street Lodge, McLean. 2011 Present: Director of Training, 3East Continuum of Care; Senior Consultant, Child and Adolescent Services
Community Service Related to Professional Work: (2002-2004) Board of Directors, Tewksbury State, Tewksbury MA. PART II: Research, Teaching, and Clinical Contributions A. Narrative report of Research, Teaching, and Clinical Contributions Clinical I arrived at McLean in September 1979 to begin a two- year clinical postdoctoral fellowship in Adolescent Clinical Psychology. Previous to coming to Mclean I had had a wide variety of experiences working with adolescents in hospital, day hospital and outpatient clinics. However, I had never, until that point, had the opportunity to begin to work with such a group of sophisticated clinicians who were trying to understand adolescent character pathology and to craft treatment milieus that would support recovery. My two fellowship years were divided between the Adolescent Day Service and The Adolescent and Family Treatment Center. In my first year I had the opportunity to work in an open day program that treated both character disordered adolescents and a smaller group of psychotic teenagers. The Adolescent Day Service was an open program with only moderate capacities to restrict and contain high action behavior. Our clinical tools primarily depended on our clinical relationship to each patient in the program. Staff worked together in as transparent a way as possible with the teens witnessing staff harmony as well as how we managed disagreements. My time at ADS was instrumental in helping formulate the ways in which I believe an adolescent milieu can be a real agent for change in psychiatrically compromised teenagers. I spent the second post-doctoral year at the Adolescent and Family Treatment Unit (AFTU). AFTU was an unlocked residential program for adolescents with emerging character problems. Parents of these children were required to be part of the program. It was from these parents that I began to understand the worry, anger, sadness and hope that were central aspects of the parent s experience. While I no longer subscribe to the psychodynamic explanation for character pathology that informed our work on the unit, the careful thinking about clinical task and roles and how authority was managed in clinical settings became invaluable to me when I assumed leadership. In the early 1990 s with managed care becoming evermore a presence in the delivery of mental health services several colleagues and I were given the opportunity to start a small day hospital for adolescents. The formation of the day hospital occurred just as child services in the hospital were being reorganized. Our
day hospital became part of the Adolescent Acute Day and Residential Program. From 1992 until 1998 I served as Director of the ART. In January of 1998 I moved to Two Brattle Center in Harvard Square to begin aiding in the development of effective Intensive Out Patient Programs. Before the center closed I had helped to create a dynamically oriented IOP and an Intensive DBT program for adults and one for teenagers. During my eight years at Two Brattle Center I maintained a connection to McLean. I co-led a milieu seminar for child trainees and staff and did teaching consultations for staff and trainees. I continue both of these commitments. In 2007 I was asked to share the lead in the development of a residential, self -pay DBT program for adolescents. 3East, as it has become to be known, initially was an 8-bed unit. As of 2011 we have the original 8 beds plus 5 step-down beds. We have a DBT day hospital that serves teenagers and parents from the community as well as the occasional family that temporarily relocates in the area. 3East at Mill Street Lodge is a 5-bed group home for girls stepping down from the residential unit and who are attending the Arlington School on campus. Currently my role at 3East is to oversee all training of staff and students, in addition, I am the program director of the 3East Day. Also I am responsible for admissions in the Day and take the lead in all residential admissions meetings. Teaching: Over the last 25 years I have been actively involved in supervising Psychiatric Residents, Child Fellows and advanced psychology trainees. In 1996 I was honored as teacher of the year for the MGH/McLean child psychiatry fellowship program. I have co-led a milieu seminar for trainees who are rotating through McLean s Acute Residential Treatment Program for well over fifteen years. In addition I conduct a bi-monthly teaching conference in which I am observed consulting to an adolescent and their parent s. This teaching conference has met regularly for the last fifteen years and is an important aspect of the Child Fellows curriculum while at McLean. Two years ago I begin to teach a yearlong seminar in Dialectical Behavior Therapy which is open to all members of the McLean Community. Last year over forty staff and trainees elected to participate in this course. In the academic year 2011-2012 I will continue to teach the year- long DBT course and will co lead a seminar that examines clinical interventions from a mentalization based perspective and a DBT perspective. In addition I am a regular presenter at McLean s Borderline Case Conference that is chaired by John Gunderson, MD. In my role as Director of Training at The 3East Continuum of Care it is my responsibility to assure that all staff are adhering to the principles and protocols of DBT. In addition, I have developed a training program that regularly attracts graduate students from Harvard s Clinical Psychology Program, Post-doctoral
Fellows from Dr. Zanarini s lab and psychiatric residents. This year I was honored to have a donor fund a post-doctoral position at 3East in connection with my clinical work with a family member. In addition as a trainer for Behavioraltech I have conducted DBT trainings for mental health professionals across the nation and in Australia. I have also been involved in three DBT program implementation projects. I have been part of a statewide initiative to train and provide consultation to child programs in Connecticut. In California I helped a private program expand to treating Borderline patients in a DBT residential program. I helped implement and train staff at the Germain Lawrence Residential Treatment Center in Arlington MA. This was a three year project that included training in DBT and consultations about program development. Teaching Responsibilities at McLean: 1997-Present: Bi-monthly Teaching Consultation: Live Interview of Adolescent and Parent(s) on the generic Adolescent Unit 1997-Present: Co-teach weekly Milieu Seminar: Examination of milieu treatment phenomena on the generic and dual-diagnosis Adolescent Units (Cynthia Kaplan PhD and John Rodolico PhD) 2007-present: Co-lead weekly training and supervision group for milieu staff at 3East. Training includes developing competencies in skills coaching, teaching DBT skills and overall DBT principles. (co-leader Janna Hobbs, LICSW) 2008-present: Weekly DBT Group Supervision for practicum and post-doctoral students and psychiatry residents who are training at 3Est 2009-Present: DBT Foundational Course: This year long seminar is open to trainees and staff of McLean. Typically 40-50 people are in attendance. 2011-present: DBT/MBT seminar: this seminar meets for the academic year and is open to trainees and staff at McLean. The focus of the seminar is an examination of clinical material from a Mentalization perspective and a DBT perspective (Co-leaders George Smith, LICSW and Shauna Dowden, PhD) Major National and Regional Presentations: ***June 11, 199?: Child Psychopharmacology: State of the Art Therapies. Selfdestructive behavior, Depression and PTSD. (Co-leader Cynthia Kaplan, PhD) Mclean /Harvard Medical School, Belmont MA. March 24, 2001: Awesome Adolescence Conference: Warning Teens at Risk: New Models for Prevention and Intervention. Self-Destructive Behavior and Self- Mutilation McLean /Harvard Medical School, Cambridge MA.
November 2, 2003: Awesome Adolescence Conference. Using DBT with Adolescents who Self-Mutilate McLean /Harvard Medical School, Boston MA. January 31,2004: The Suicidal and Self-Destructive Adolescent. The Use of Multi- Family DBT Groups for Self-Harming Adolescents. Cambridge /Harvard Medical School Conference Series. Boston MA. October 3and 4, 2004: DBT Skills Training: The Essentials. Behavioral Tech, Brisbane Australia. January 4, 2004: Non-Treatment Treatments. Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge / Harvard Medical School (Co Presenter Joan Wheelis MD) Cambridge MA February 2006: American Group Psychotherapy Association Annual Meeting. Surfing the Tsunami of Emotions: Managing Emotional Dysregulation in an Adolescent DBT Group. New York City, New York. March 2006: Introduction to Understanding Self-injurious Behavior and DBT. Newton Public Schools, Newton MA April 2006: Essentials of DBT with Adolescents. Kaiser-Permanente Annual Conference. San Francisco CA. August 2007: 3Day Conference for the State of Connecticut: Implementing DBT into Child Programs (Co-leaders Kate Comtois PhD, Tony DuBose PsyD) Behavioral Tech, Hartford Connecticut. October 29 November 2, 2007: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Training Course. (Co-leaders Kate Comtois, PhD, Tony Dubose, PsyD). Behavioral Tech, Hartford, Connecticut. November 8, 2007: Introduction to DBT and Self-harming Behaviors. Kentucky Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky. November 2007: DBT for Children and Adolescents Jewish Social Service Agency Annual Conference. Chevy Chase, Washington DC. January 2008: Part II DBT Intensive Training. Behavioral Tech. (Coleaders Kate Comtois, PhD, Tony DuBose, PsyD). Hartford, Connecticut.
April 2008: Integrating DBT Principles in the Family Therapy of High Risk Adolescents. Fourteenth Annual MEDA National Conference, Dedham, Massachusetts. June 2008 : Self-Injury and Family Therapy Self-harming Adolescents, Cambridge /Harvard Medical School Conference Series, Boston, Massachusetts. June 2008:. Helping Families with an Adolescent Self-Injurer. International Society for the Study of Self-Injury, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. January 14-15, 2009: DBT on the Front Lines: Adaptations of DBT for Clinical Support Staff in Mental Health Programs. (co-leader Kate Comtois, PhD) Behavioral Tech, Middletown, Connecticut. March 9-10, 2009: Individual Psychotherapy in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. (Coleader Tony DuBose, PsyD). Behavioral Tech, Middletown, Connecticut. March 11-12, 2009: Skills Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The Essentials (Co-leader Tony DuBose) Behavioral Tech, Middletown, Connecticut. April 2009: Developing More Emotionally Skillful Students: Bringing DBT into the Classroom. Maine Suicide Prevention Conference, Portland, Maine. June 18-19, 2009 DBT on the Frontlines: Adaptations of DBT for Clinical Support Staff in Mental Health Programs (Co-leader Elizabeth Dexter-Mazza, PsyD). Behavioral Tech, Middletown, Connecticut. June 25-26, 2009: Treating Adolescents with Multiple Problems. (Co-leader Alec Miller, PsyD). Behavioral Tech, Denver, Colorado. September 14-15, 2009 Individual Psychotherapy In DBT. (Co-leader Tony DuBose, PsyD). Behavioral Tech, Middletown, Connecticut. September 16-17, 2009 Skills Training in DBT: The Essentials. (Co-leader Tony DuBose, PsyD). Behavioral Tech, Middleton, Connecticut. March 24, 2010: The Paradox of Self-Injury: Myths, Facts and Effective Treatments. Dr. Hugh MacNamee Memorial Trust Annual Conference, Hanover, Vermont. July 26-30, 2010: DBT with Multi-problem Adolescents. Cape Cod Symposium, Eastham, Massachusetts. April 7, 2011, Plugging Into the Secret Life of Teens: Workshop on Self-Injury. Scienta Health Services, Toronto, Canada.
September 12-16, 2011: Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Intensive Course. (Coleader Linda Dimeff, PhD). Behavioral Tech, Middletown, Connecticut. Research: My career at McLean has largely been in direct service, program development, clinical leadership, and teaching. It has only been in the last few years that I have had the opportunity to be a part of clinical research. I have collaborated with Professor Mathew Nock at Harvard s Clinical Psychology Program in research studies examining the function of Non-suicidal Self Injury in adolescents. While at Two Brattle Center I had the opportunity to collaborate on a study with Karlin Lyons-Ruth and her group at Cambridge Health Alliance. In the past year 3East has partnered with Professor Mary Zanarini s research group in a study examining the efficacy of our treatment. Publications: 1. Nock, M.K., Teper, T. l., & Hollander, M. (2007). Psychosocial treatment of self-injury among children and adolescents. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 63, 1081-1089 2. Hollander, M. When Your Teen Cuts. (2008) In, Kaplan, C.S., Aguirre B. A., & Rater, M. (Eds.). Helping Your Troubled Teen (pp 84-98). Beverly MA: Fair Winds 3. Marc. W., Bureau, J.F., Holmes, B.M., Bertha, E.A., Hollander, M., Wheelis, J., Brooks, N.H., Lyons-Ruth, K., (2008) Cortisol response to interpersonal stress in young adults with borderline personality disorder. European Psychiatry 23, pp. 201-204 4. Hollander, M., Helping Teens Who Cut: Understanding and Ending Self-injury (2008) New York: Guilford Press 5. Nock, M.K., Deliberto, T.L., & Hollander, M. (2010). Resolving treatment complications associated with the presence of co-morbid personality disorders. In, M.W. Otto & S.G. Hoffman (Eds.), Avoiding treatment failures in the anxiety disorders (pp 251-269). New York: Springer 6. Hollander, M. Family Therapy in Walsh, W. ; Treating Self-injury: A Practical Guide, New Edition (In Press, 2011) New York: Guildford Press.
Awards: Teacher of the Year Award Massachusetts General / McLean Child Residency Program. 1996 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award. 2008. Helping Teens Who Cut-Understanding and Ending Self-injury (2008) New York: Guilford Press Community Service Related to Professional Work: PART II: Research, Teaching, and Clinical Contributions B. Narrative report of Research, Teaching, and Clinical Contributions Clinical I arrived at McLean in September 1979 to begin a two- year clinical postdoctoral fellowship in Adolescent Clinical Psychology. Previous to coming to Mclean I had had a wide variety of experiences working with adolescents in hospital, day hospital and outpatient clinics. However, I had never, until that point, had the opportunity to begin to work with such a group of sophisticated clinicians who were trying to understand adolescent character pathology and to craft treatment milieus that would support recovery. My two fellowship years were divided between the Adolescent Day Service and The Adolescent and Family Treatment Center. In my first year I had the opportunity to work in an open day program that treated both character disordered adolescents and a smaller group of psychotic teenagers. The Adolescent Day Service was an open program with only moderate capacities to restrict and contain high action behavior. Our clinical tools primarily depended on our clinical relationship to each patient in the program. Staff worked together in as
transparent a way as possible with the teens witnessing staff harmony as well as how we managed disagreements. My time at ADS was instrumental in helping formulate the ways in which I believe an adolescent milieu can be a real agent for change in psychiatrically compromised teenagers.