Carla Sharp, Ph.D.

Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
Professor, Psychology
Director of the Developmental Psychopathology Lab and the UH- ADAPT Clinic
713.743.8612
402 Agnes Arnold Hall
csharp2@uh.edu 

Carla Sharp is a professor of psychology and director of the Developmental Psychopathology Lab and the UH-ADAPT clinic. She received her Ph.D. in developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge. In 2004, she moved to the United States to take an appointment as an assistant professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine.

Her published work includes over 250 peer-reviewed publications (H-index 53) and numerous chapters reflecting her interests in the social-cognitive basis of psychiatric problems and attachment-related disorders as well as the application of this work in developing diagnostic tools and interventions in youth. She has co-authored three books: an edited volume with Springer titled, “The Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents,” an edited volume with Oxford University Press titled “Social Cognition and Developmental Psychopathology” and a book with MIT Press titled, “Midbrain Mutiny: Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics of Gambling Addiction as Basic Reward System Disorder." Her work has been continuously funded since 2009 by the NIH and various foundations.