Tracy Gladstone

About

Tracy R.G Gladstone is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, as well as an Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University. She completed her PhD at Emory University in 2011. Her professional focus includes adolescent and young adult health, and she is involved in teaching courses related to this area. Her work is affiliated with the departments of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University.

Research topics

• Clinical psychology
• Medicine
• Psychiatry
• Psychotherapist
• Family medicine
• Medical emergency
• Internal medicine
• Developmental psychology
• Psychology

Selected publications

• The Transition to Adulthood in Children of Depressed Parents: Long-Term Follow-Up Data from the Family Talk Preventive Intervention Project

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2023-02-14 · 7 citations

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  Little is known about the effects of parental depression on offspring as they transition to adulthood-a challenging time developmentally, when late adolescents must separate from home, achieve intimate relationships, and develop a sense of identity. We present long-term quantitative and qualitative data from early adolescents with a depressed parent who were randomized to one of two family-based preventive interventions and followed over time, across the transition to young adulthood. Specifical…

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• Validating a digital depression prevention program for adolescents in Jordan: cultural adaptation and user testing in a randomized controlled trial

  Frontiers in Psychiatry · 2025-02-12 · 6 citations

  articleOpen access

  Purpose: Digital health interventions (DHIs) offer scalable solutions for improving mental health care access in underserved settings. This study is part of a multi-phased project aimed at adapting a depression prevention DHI for Jordanian adolescents. It evaluated the feasibility, cultural acceptability, and effectiveness of the translated and culturally adapted DHI, named Al-Khaizuran, with comparisons to school-based group CBT. Methods: A two-arm, single-blind randomized controlled trial with…

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• Primary care-based screening and recruitment for an adolescent depression prevention trial: Contextual considerations during a youth mental health crisis

  Implementation Research and Practice · 2024-01-01 · 4 citations

  articleOpen access

  Background Rising rates of adolescent depression in the wake of COVID-19 and a youth mental health crisis highlight the urgent need for accessible mental healthcare and prevention within primary care. Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) may increase access for underserved populations. However, these interventions are not well studied in adolescents, nor healthcare settings. The purpose of this study was to identify barriers and facilitators to screening and recruitment activities for PAT…

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• Preventing depression: Challenges and innovations.

  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology · 2025-03-24 · 2 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  The articles in this special issue provide an important resource for researchers and clinicians in the field of depression prevention. Prevention of depression is one of the most important public health challenges today, and the articles in this issue provide a helpful overview of ways in which the field has progressed over the past decades. This article provides a brief synopsis of the articles in this special issue. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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• Involving youth with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities as collaborators in a comparative effectiveness trial: A community-engaged research approach

  Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications · 2024-11-22 · 2 citations

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  Background: Practices to include youth with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD) are necessary to design and implement research that specifically meets the behavioral health needs of this population. This article describes a protocol for engaging youth with IDD as collaborators in a comparative effectiveness clinical trial using a community-engaged research (CEnR) approach. Methods: Our engagement protocol, guided by the Community Engaged Research (CEnR) Framework, emphasized har…

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Recent grants

• Primary Care Internet-Based Depression Prevention for Adolescents (CATCH-IT)

  NIH · $3.2M · 2012–2018

• NIH Grant R01MH064717

  NIH · $2.8M · 2013

Frequent coauthors

• William R. Beardslee

  Boston Children's Hospital

  133 shared

• Benjamin W. Van Voorhees

  University of Illinois Chicago

  82 shared

• Joshua Fogel

  City University of New York

  53 shared

• V. Robin Weersing

  University of California, San Diego

  48 shared

• David A. Brent

  43 shared

• Gregory N. Clarke

  Kaiser Permanente

  40 shared

• Carl C. Bell

  39 shared

• Judy Garber

  Vanderbilt University

  39 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  Emory University

  2011

Similar researchers at Brown University

• Bess Marcush-118
• David Williamsh-108
• Damaris Rohsenowh-97