His current research focuses on
the prevention of adolescent depression, eating disorders, and obesity, and on the treatment of depression and eating disorders.
The Parenting to Reduce Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Scale: Assessing parental concordance with parenting guidelines for
the prevention of adolescent depression and anxiety disorders.
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His research focuses on the treatment,
prevention, and epidemiology
of adolescent depression, with a special interest in the impact
of comorbid conditions.
Researchers committed to the
prevention of depression in at - risk youth have undertaken studies to identify effective intervention programming for
adolescents and families.
FRIENDS for Life has been recognised in a review conducted by the World Health Organization for the
prevention and treatment
of childhood and
adolescent anxiety and
depression and implemented internationally.
Depression is common in
adolescent offspring
of depressed parents and can be prevented, but adoption
of prevention programs is dependent on the balance
of their incremental costs and benefits.
This report presents the cost - effectiveness
of a recent
prevention trial conducted with the subsyndromal
adolescent offspring
of parents treated for
depression.
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Depression is common in
adolescent offspring
of depressed parents and can be prevented, but adoption
of prevention programs is dependent on the balance
of their incremental costs and benefits.
Evidence is emerging that psychosocial interventions can prevent
depression15 - 17 in
adolescents, and
prevention interventions targeted at high - risk groups have recently had favorable results.16, 17 Our group has described a successful group cognitive behavioral intervention to prevent
depression episodes in at - risk
adolescents.18 Teens in the study had 2 significant risk factors: (1) they were offspring
of depressed parents and (2) they had significant subsyndromal symptoms and / or a past episode
of depression.
Evaluation
of a primary care / Internet - based
depression prevention program for at - risk
adolescents and their families.
This initiative produced the award - winning Treating and Preventing
Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know, a definitive guide book for mental health professionals; a series
of four books for parents, counselors and others concerned with the
prevention and treatment
of mental disorders in
adolescents; and eight books for teens designed to help them cope with prevalent mental health disorders, including
depression and substance abuse.
The volume updates the work
of seven panels
of experts in such areas as
adolescent anxiety disorders, schizophrenia,
depression and bipolar disorder, eating disorders, substance and alcohol abuse, and suicide
prevention, as well as positive youth development.
She has served as a senior member
of the Preventive Intervention Project research team at Judge Baker Children's Center, which compares two family - based
prevention programs for early
adolescents at risk for
depression because they have a parent with a depressive disorder.
She participated in a symposium, «Current Challenges and Future Directions in the
Prevention of Youth
Depression,» organized by colleagues in Germany, who were interested in Gladstone's work on a primary care, internetbased depression prevention program for adolescents at risk for d
Depression,» organized by colleagues in Germany, who were interested in Gladstone's work on a primary care, internetbased
depression prevention program for adolescents at risk for d
depression prevention program for
adolescents at risk for
depressiondepression.
For example, in our longitudinal, multi-site study
of adolescents at risk for
depression, we found that teens who participated in a group cognitive - behavioral
prevention program were less likely to experience a depressive disorder at nine -(Garber et al., 2009) and 32 -(Beardslee et al., in press) months follow - up, relative to at - risk teens who were assigned to a treatment - as - usual control group.
Psychological and / or educational interventions for the
prevention of depression in children and
adolescents.
The program will increase the school community's mental health awareness and literacy, which serves as a
prevention tool for the community regarding
adolescent depression; offer two - level screening to students in one middle school and two high school grades, including universal, self - report screening for all students, followed by in - depth interviews with students who screen as high risk; and communicate with Holliston parents / guardians about youth
depression and resources, provide more significant follow - up (both immediate and long - term) with parents / guardians
of high - risk teens, and provide all school families with access to the Interface Referral Network.
A meta - analytic review
of depression prevention programs for children and
adolescents: factors that predict magnitude
of intervention effects.
Research review: can we justify the widespread dissemination
of universal, school based interventions for the
prevention of depression among children and
adolescents?
Ongoing since 2011 Principal Investigator: Tracy Gladstone, Ph.D. with Benjamin Van Voorhees, M.D., University
of Illinois at Chicago Funded by the National Institute on Mental Health This multi-site study was designed to evaluate a primary care / Internet - based
depression prevention program for at - risk
adolescents and their families.
«Cultural adaptation
of an internet - based
depression prevention intervention, CATCH - IT, for Arab
adolescents using the PEN - 3 model,» (Abuwallah, Z., Kadhem, Z., Bishay, A., Gladstone, T., Mikhael, E., & Van Voorhees, B.) was published online in July 2017 by the International Journal
of Adolescent Medicine and Health.
Depression prevention for early
adolescent girls: a pilot study
of all girls versus co-ed groups
Participants» data were from the baseline assessment
of a NIMH - sponsored family - group cognitive - behavioral intervention program for the
prevention of child and
adolescent depression (Compas et al., 2009).