BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
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NAME
POSITION TITLE
Guy S. Diamond, Ph.D.
Director of the Couples and Family Therapy PhD
Program
eRA COMMONS USER NAME (credential, e.g., agency login)
DIAMONDG
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral training and
residency training if applicable.)
DEGREE
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
MM/YY
FIELD OF STUDY
(if applicable)
The Evergreen State College
New College of California
California School of Professional Psychology
Philadelphia Child Guidance Center
Philadelphia Child Guidance Center
B.A.
M.A.
Ph.D.
1981
1986
1992
1990-91
1992-93
Liberal Arts
Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Pre-doctoral Internship
Post-doctoral Fellow
A. Personal Statement
I am the Director of the Center for Family Intervention Science (CFIS) at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. I
founded CFIS in 1996 and it has brought in over $20,000,000 of federally funded grants from NIMH, SAMSHA,
CDC,CSAT and several private foundations. CFIS is dedicated to the development, testing and dissemination
of family based treatments for depressed and suicidal youth and their families. Over the course of my career, I
have served as a clinician, outpatient administrative director, center director and researcher, making me
particularly well poised to direct the activities proposed in this grant. I currently co-direct a Garrett Lee Smith
SAMSHA grant to deploy a suicide prevention program into the primary care setting. As part of this study, I am
implementing a web-based computer screening program to assess behavioral health problems in primary care
patients. This tool is being used in several clinics in Philadelphia and will assist in recruitment for this study. I
am a licensed clinical psychologist in Pennsylvania with a strong research track record in treatment of
adolescent suicide, depression, and substance abuse. We now have a book published with the American
Psychological Association. Overall, I have demonstrated the ability to successfully conceptualize, propose, and
execute productive research projects related to adolescent depression.
B. Positions and Honors
1991-1993
Adjunct Professor, Department of Counseling Psychology, Temple University
1993-1994
Research Psychologist, Philadelphia Child Guidance Center
1994-1995
Clinical Associate, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
1995-2004
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
2000-2013
Director Center for Family Intervention Science, Department of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2004-2013
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
2013-2013
Visiting Associate Professor, Drexel University
2013- Present
Associate Professor, Drexel University
2013- Present
Director, Department of Couples and Family Therapy PhD Program, Drexel University
2014- Present
Director Center for Family Intervention Science, Department of Marriage and Family
Therapy, Drexel University
C. Selected peer-reviewed publications
Most relevant to the current application
1. Diamond, G., & Siqueland, L. (1995). Family therapy for the treatment of depressed adolescents.
Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training. Special Issue: Adolescent treatment: New frontiers
and new dimensions, 32(1), 77-90.
2. Diamond, G.S., & Siqueland, L. (1998). Emotions, attachment, and the relational reframe: The first
session. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 17(2), 36-50.
3. Diamond, G.S., Reis, B.F., Diamond, G.M., Siqueland, L., & Isaacs, L. (2002). Attachment-based family
therapy for depressed adolescents: A treatment development study. Journal of the Academy of Child &
Adolescent Psychiatry, 41(10), 1190-1196.
4. Diamond, G.S., Siqueland, L., & Diamond, G.M. (2003). Attachment-based family therapy: Programmatic
treatment development. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 6(2), 107-127.
5. Diamond, G.S., Wintersteen, M.B., Brown, G., Diamond, G.M., Gallop, R., Shelef, K., & Levy, S. (2010).
Attachment-Based Family Therapy for suicidal adolescents: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of the
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 49(2), 122-31.
Additional recent publications
1. Diamond, G.M., Diamond, G.S., & Liddle, H.A. (2000). The therapist-parent alliance in family-based
therapy for adolescents. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 56(8), 1037-1050.
2. Liddle, H.A., Dakof, G.A., Parker, K., Diamond, G.S., Barrett, K., & Tejeda, M. (2001). Multidimensional
family therapy for adolescent drug abuse: Results of a randomized clinical trial. American Journal of Drug
and Alcohol Abuse, 27(4), 651-688.
3. Diamond, G., & Josephson, A.M., (2005). Family-based treatment research: a 10-year update. Journal of
the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 44(9), 872-887.
4. Shelef, K., Diamond, G.M., Diamond, G.S., & Liddle, H.L. (2005). Adolescent and Parent Alliance and
Treatment Outcome in Multidimensional Family Therapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
73(4), 689-698.
5. Moran, G., Diamond, G.M., & Diamond, G.S. (2005). The relational reframe and parents’ problem
constructions in attachment-based family therapy. Psychotherapy Research. 15(3), 226-235. DOI
10.1080/10503300512331387780.
6. Diamond, G.S., Liddle, H., Wintersteen, M.B., Dennis, M., Godley, S., & Tims, F. (2006). Early therapeutic
alliance as a predictor of treatment outcome for adolescent cannabis users in outpatient treatment. The
American Journal on Addictions. Special Issue: Advances in the assessment and treatment of adolescent
substance use disorders, 15(Suppl1), 26-33.
7. Boyd, R.C., Diamond, G.S., & Bourjolly, J.N. (2006). Developing a Family-Based Depression Prevention
Program in Urban Community Mental Health Clinics: A Qualitative Investigation. Family Process. 45(2),
187-203.
8. Diamond, G.M., Diamond, G.S., & Hogue, A. (2007). Attachment-based family therapy: adherence and
differentiation. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 33(2), 177-191.
9. Wintersteen, M.B., Diamond, G. S., & Fein, J. A. (2007). Screening for suicide risk in the pediatric
emergency and acute care setting. Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 19, 398-404.
10. Conrad, K.J., Bezruczko, N., Chan, Y., Riley, B., Diamond, G., & Dennis, M.L. (2010). Screening for
atypical suicide risk with person fit statistics among people presenting to alcohol and other drug treatment.
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 106, 92-100.
D. Research Support
Ongoing Research Projects
Grant SM-08-001
Stannley Morzoski (PI)
09/01/11-08/01/2014
SAMHSA
Youth Suicide Prevention in Primary Care
Develop online screening for behavioral health in primary care in three PA counties. Enhance integration, if not
collocation, of behavioral health services with medical services.
Role: Program Developer
R01MH091059
NIMH
Guy Diamond (PI)
09/01/11-09/01/16
Attachment based family therapy for youth with suicidal ideation.
A randomized clinical trial comparing ABFT to non directive supportive therapy for treating youth with elevated
suicide ideation and depression. The study integrates clinical and developmental psychology by using
attachment research technology (Adult Attachment Interview, family interaction task) to test the central tenets
of ABFT: does the treatment change attachment models and behaviors and do these changes lead to reduced
suicide ideation.
Role: Principle Investigator.
2011279
Binational Science Foundation
Gary Diamond (PI)
10/01/12-9/30/16
The link between emotional processing, emotional arousal, changes in attachment and decreases in suicidal
ideation in attachment-based family therapy for suicidal adolescents.
This study will examine the role of emotional arousal and processing in transforming attachment schema and
decreasing suicidal ideation among a sample of suicidal adolescents receiving 16 weeks of therapy. Emotional
arousal and processing will be measured via observational coding and objective analyses of voice quality
during the first two reattachment sessions of each case.
Completed Research
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Guy Diamond (PI)
09/01/08-09/01/10
Family therapy as aftercare for adolescents with suicidal ideation and attempts
A randomized clinical trial of Attachment Based Family Therapy versus Enhanced Treatment as Usual to
reduce suicide ideation or attempt among adolescents discharged from inpatient psychiatric care.
Role: PI
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Gary Diamond (PI)
02/01/08-02/01/10
Adapting Attachment-Based Family Therapy for suicidal Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Adolescents
Role: Co-PI
SAP#4100033130
Diamond (Co-PI)
06/01/06-05/31/10
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Primary Care Research Network for the Treatment of Adolescent Obesity
A statewide infrastructure that will support the development, testing, and dissemination of effective
treatments for Obesity. The research/dissemination work will locate itself in primary care medical
settings. Primary care serves as an effective context for reaching a wide range of adolescents, and for
treating obesity and its potentially complicating medical consequences.
SAP#4100027295
Diamond (PI-Screening project)
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Primary Care Research Network for Adolescent Smoking Cessation
Development of a computer-based self-report behavioral health screening tool for Primary care.
06/05-05/09
R49CCR 321711-01
Diamond (Co-PI)
03/05-02/08
HRSA/Maternal Child Health Bureau
Optimizing Mental Health Screening of Adolescents in the ED
This project will develop a screening tool and screening procedures to help identify depressed adolescent
during an emergency room visit.
R49 CE000428
Diamond (PI)
09/04-09/08
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Preventing Youth Suicide in Primary Care
Randomized clinical trial of family-based treatment versus enhanced usual care for adolescents presenting in a
primary care setting with suicide ideation.