Alexander L. Chapman, PhD, RPsych, is a psychologist and associate professor in the department of psychology at Simon Fraser University (SFU), as well as the president of the DBT Centre of Vancouver. Chapman directs the Personality and Emotion Research Lab, where he studies the role of emotion regulation in borderline personality disorder (BPD), self-harm, impulsivity, and other behavioral problems. His research is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Chapman received the Young Investigator's Award of the National Education Alliance for BPD (2007), the Canadian Psychological Association's (CPA) Early Career Scientist Practitioner Award, and a Career Investigator Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. He has coauthored six books-three of which received the 2012 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Book Seal ofMerit Award. He currently serves as principal investigator on large grants focused from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Kim L. Gratz, PhD, is a professor in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where she serves as director of personality disorders research and director of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) clinic. In 2005, Gratz received the Young Investigator's Award of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD). She has written numerous journal articles and book chapters on borderline personality disorder(BPD), deliberate self-harm, and emotion regulation (among other topics), and is coauthor of four books on BPD, self-harm, and DBT (including The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide, Borderline Personality Disorder, Freedom From Self-harm, and The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anxiety, New Harbinger Publications). Gratz currently serves as principal investigator or co-investigator on several large federal grants, including multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health.