He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Idaho State University, after completing his clinical internship at Duke University Medical Centre. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Marsha Linehan at the University of Washington in Seattle before he came to SFU. For his research on borderline personality disorder (BPD), Dr. Chapman recently won the Young Investigator's Award from the National Education Alliance for BPD, and he published a book on BPD (The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide <http://www.amazon.ca/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Survival-Guide/dp/1572245077> ) in the Fall of 2007. His research focuses on BPD, dialectical behavior therapy, emotion regulation, self-harm, and impulsivity. In addition, Dr. Chapman founded the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Centre of Vancouver.