Associate Professor
Tracy Gladstone, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, and a faculty member at the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute at Brown University. She received her B.A. in psychology from Brown University and her doctorate in clinical psychology from Emory University. She completed her predoctoral training at the Atlanta VA and her postdoctoral training at Judge Baker Children’s Center and Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Gladstone holds a health service provider psychologist license in Massachusetts, a license in clinical psychology in Rhode Island, and has been trained in evidence-based clinical prevention and intervention protocols.
For the past twenty-five years, Dr. Gladstone has focused her research on the prevention of depression in adolescents and families at risk. She has conducted several depression prevention trials, including an effort to evaluate a group cognitive-behavioral intervention for adolescents at risk for depression; a pilot study to develop, implement and evaluate a depression prevention program for women recovering from fistula repair surgery in Ethiopia; and multiple efforts to develop, evaluate and refine the technology-based Competent Adulthood Transition with Cognitive Behavioral Humanistic and Interpersonal Training (CATCH-IT) intervention. Currently she is leading an effort to adapt the CATCH-IT intervention for college students with symptoms of depression, and she is working with a team to develop strategies for preventing depression in adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In addition to her research investigating interventions to prevent depression in adolescents, over the past several years Dr. Gladstone has been working with local school districts to develop and implement a community-based depression/anxiety/suicide screening and prevention program for middle and high school students. Her work is funded by federal agencies, including the National Institute of Mental Health and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and by a range of foundations, local agencies, and school districts.
