Discipline(s):
Clinical Psychology, Psychiatric Epidemiology
Area(s) of Expertise:
Childhood Adversity, Stress and Psychopathology
E-Mail:
katie.mclaughlin@childrens.harvard.edu
Background:
Katie McLaughlin is a clinical psychologist with general interests in the relationship between stress, socioeconomic disadvantage, and psychopathology and in the development of sustainable interventions to prevent the onset of depression and anxiety disorders. She has a joint Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale University. Her research program focuses on two areas of inquiry. First, she seeks to identify determinants of psychiatric disorders in the US that may be amenable to preventive intervention. For example, she has examined cognitive and emotion regulation mechanisms linking stress and socioeconomic disadvantage to psychopathology. Second, she is interested in developing and evaluating interventions designed to prevent the onset of psychiatric disorders. In her dissertation project she developed and evaluated a primary preventive intervention targeting depression and anxiety among economically disadvantaged adolescents. During her time in the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars program, Katie has broadened the scope of her research to examine social determinants of psychiatric disorder, including income inequality, discrimination, and exposure to childhood adversity. She hopes to identify psychological mechanisms linking these characteristics to individual mental health outcomes. Katie ultimately hopes to expand her prevention work by developing structural-level preventive interventions that target both individual- and population-level risk factors for psychiatric disorder.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Katie McLaughlin's available publications in PubMed.
