Dr. Jill M. Hooley is a professor of psychology at Harvard University. Jill is also the head of the clinical psychology and experimental psychopathology program at Harvard. Jill was born in England and received a BSc in psychology from the University of Liverpool. This was followed by research work at Cambridge University. She then attended Magdalen College, Oxford, where she completed her DPhil. After a move to the USA and additional training in clinical psychology at SUNY Stony Brook, Jill took a position at Harvard, where she has been a faculty member since 1985.

Dr. Jill Hooley has a long-standing interest in psychosocial predictors of psychiatric relapse in patients with severe psychopathology such as depression and schizophrenia. Dr. Hooley’s research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and by the Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation. Jill uses fMRI to study emotion regulation in people who are vulnerable to depression and in people who are suffering from borderline personality disorder. Another area of research interest is nonsuicidal self-harming behaviors such as skin cutting or burning.

In 2000, Dr. Jill. Hooley received the Aaron T. Beck Award for Excellence in Psychopathology Research. Dr. Hooley is also a past president of the Society for Research in Psychopathology. The author of many scholarly publications, Dr. Hooley was appointed Associate Editor for Clinical Psychological Science in 2012. She is also an associate editor for Applied and Preventive Psychology and serves on the editorial boards of several journals including the Family Process, Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, and Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment. In 2015 Dr. Jill received the Zubin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Psychopathology Research from the Society for Research in Psychopathology.

At Harvard, she has taught undergraduate and graduate classes in psychiatric diagnosis, introductory psychology, schizophrenia, mood disorders, abnormal psychology, clinical psychology, and psychological treatment. Reflecting her commitment to the scientist-practitioner model, Jill also does clinical work specializing in the treatment of people with depression, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders.