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Katie A. McLaughlin
OccupationProfessor of clinical psychology
Awards
  • APA Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (2016)
  • Klerman Prize for Exceptional Clinical Research (2016)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Virginia; Pennsylvania State University; Yale University
ThesisA public health approach to the study and prevention of adolescent depression & anxiety
Academic work
InstitutionsHarvard University

Katie A. McLaughlin is an American clinical psychologist and expert on how stress, trauma, and other adverse events, such as natural disorders or pandemics, affect behavioral and brain development during childhood and adolescence.[1][2] McLaughlin is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.[3]

McLaughlin received the Chaim and Bela Danieli Young Professional Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies in 2013[4] and the Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Early Career Award from the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology in 2014.[5] In 2016, McLaughlin won the Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association[6] and the Klerman Prize for Exceptional Clinical Research from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.[7]

Biography

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McLaughlin received her B.A. degree with Honors in Psychology at University of Virginia in 2002. Her honors thesis research was supervised by Robert Emery, who opened the doors to research on stress and child adversity.[6] McLaughlin earned an M.S. degree in Psychology at Pennsylvania State University in 2004. At Penn State, she worked with Thomas Borkovec on studies of worry and rumination[8] and with Douglas Mennin on studies of personality and anxiety disorders.[9]

McLaughlin went on to complete a joint Ph.D in Clinical Psychology and Chronic Disease Epidemiology at Yale University in 2008 under the direction of Susan Nolen-Hoeksema.[10] While at Yale, McLaughlin collaborated with Nolen-Hoeksema on research examining the role of rumination in the development of anxiety and depression in adolescents and adults.[11][12]

McLaughlin completed post-doctoral work at the Harvard School of Public Health. At Harvard, Charles Nelson influenced McLaughlin to conduct research on child adversity that included policy and clinical implications.[13] Ronald Kessler and Karestan Koenen introduced her to epidemiological approaches.[6] She was an assistant professor at the University of Washington[14] before joining the faculty of Harvard University.

McLaughlin was recipient of a Jacobs Foundation fellowship[15] and a MERIT Award from the National Institute of Mental Health.[16]

Research

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McLaughlin works in the area of affective neuroscience and developmental psychology, concentrating on how situations involving childhood adversity, trauma, and stress influence cognitive, emotional and neurobiological development in young children and teenagers. She has worked on large-scale studies linking childhood adversity and adult psychopathology including the World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health Surveys.[17][18] and the National Comorbidity Survey.[19] The results of her research indicate that adversities during childhood and adolescence heighten individuals' risk of developing mental disorders, including major depression and anxiety disorders.[20][21]

Representative publications

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References

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  1. ^ "What Hurricane Ian stole from kids: Toys, shoes, stability, home". Washington Post. 2022-10-19. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  2. ^ Bhanoo, Sindya N. (March 20, 2020). "Parents, you are the filter through which your kids see this crisis. How you talk about it matters". Washington Post.
  3. ^ "Katie A. McLaughlin". psychology.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  4. ^ "ISTSS - Past Award Winners". istss.org. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  5. ^ "News - University of Washington Department of Psychology". psych.uw.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  6. ^ a b c "Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Katie A. McLaughlin". American Psychologist. 71 (8): 699–701. 2016. doi:10.1037/amp0000072. PMID 27977247.
  7. ^ "Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Announces Klerman-Freedman Prizes For Exceptional Research". BioSpace. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  8. ^ McLaughlin, Katie A.; Borkovec, Thomas D.; Sibrava, Nicholas J. (March 2007). "The Effects of Worry and Rumination on Affect States and Cognitive Activity". Behavior Therapy. 38 (1): 23–38. doi:10.1016/j.beth.2006.03.003. PMID 17292692.
  9. ^ McLaughlin, Katie A.; Mennin, Douglas S. (2005). "Clarifying the temporal relationship between dependent personality disorder and anxiety disorders". Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. 12 (4): 417–420. doi:10.1093/clipsy.bpi052.
  10. ^ McLaughlin, Katie A. (2008). A public health approach to the study and prevention of adolescent depression & anxiety (Thesis). ProQuest 304427470.
  11. ^ McLaughlin, Katie A.; Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan (March 2011). "Rumination as a transdiagnostic factor in depression and anxiety". Behaviour Research and Therapy. 49 (3): 186–193. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2010.12.006. PMC 3042543. PMID 21238951.
  12. ^ Michl, Louisa C.; McLaughlin, Katie A.; Shepherd, Kathrine; Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan (May 2013). "Rumination as a mechanism linking stressful life events to symptoms of depression and anxiety: Longitudinal evidence in early adolescents and adults". Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 122 (2): 339–352. doi:10.1037/a0031994. PMC 4116082. PMID 23713497.
  13. ^ Sheridan, Margaret A.; Nelson, Charles A. (30 May 2018). "Opinion | How to Turn Children Into Criminals". The New York Times.
  14. ^ "Maltreated children's brains show 'encouraging' ability to regulate emotions". UW News. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  15. ^ "Katie A. McLaughin". Jacobs Foundation. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  16. ^ "Katie A. McLaughlin, lab director, wins a MERIT Award from the National Institute of Mental Health". sdlab.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  17. ^ Kessler, Ronald C.; McLaughlin, Katie A.; Green, Jennifer Greif; Gruber, Michael J.; Sampson, Nancy A.; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alhamzawi, Ali Obaid; Alonso, Jordi; Angermeyer, Matthias; Benjet, Corina; Bromet, Evelyn; Chatterji, Somnath; de Girolamo, Giovanni; Demyttenaere, Koen; Fayyad, John; Florescu, Silvia; Gal, Gilad; Gureje, Oye; Haro, Josep Maria; Hu, Chi-yi; Karam, Elie G.; Kawakami, Norito; Lee, Sing; Lépine, Jean-Pierre; Ormel, Johan; Posada-Villa, José; Sagar, Rajesh; Tsang, Adley; Üstün, T. Bedirhan; Vassilev, Svetlozar; Viana, Maria Carmen; Williams, David R. (November 2010). "Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys". British Journal of Psychiatry. 197 (5): 378–385. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.080499. PMC 2966503. PMID 21037215.
  18. ^ Benjet, C.; Bromet, E.; Karam, E. G.; Kessler, R. C.; McLaughlin, K. A.; Ruscio, A. M.; Shahly, V.; Stein, D. J.; Petukhova, M.; Hill, E.; Alonso, J.; Atwoli, L.; Bunting, B.; Bruffaerts, R.; Caldas-de-Almeida, J. M.; de Girolamo, G.; Florescu, S.; Gureje, O.; Huang, Y.; Lepine, J. P.; Kawakami, N.; Kovess-Masfety, Viviane; Medina-Mora, M. E.; Navarro-Mateu, F.; Piazza, M.; Posada-Villa, J.; Scott, K. M.; Shalev, A.; Slade, T.; ten Have, M.; Torres, Y.; Viana, M. C.; Zarkov, Z.; Koenen, K. C. (January 2016). "The epidemiology of traumatic event exposure worldwide: results from the World Mental Health Survey Consortium". Psychological Medicine. 46 (2): 327–343. doi:10.1017/S0033291715001981. PMC 4869975. PMID 26511595. S2CID 23559712.
  19. ^ Avenevoli, Shelli (1 April 2012). "Prevalence, Persistence, and Sociodemographic Correlates of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement". Archives of General Psychiatry. 69 (4): 372–380. doi:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.160. PMC 3445020. PMID 22147808.
  20. ^ McLaughlin, Katie A.; Greif Green, Jennifer; Gruber, Michael J.; Sampson, Nancy A.; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Kessler, Ronald C. (1 November 2012). "Childhood Adversities and First Onset of Psychiatric Disorders in a National Sample of US Adolescents". Archives of General Psychiatry. 69 (11): 1151–1160. doi:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.2277. PMC 3490224. PMID 23117636.
  21. ^ McLaughlin, K. A.; Conron, K. J.; Koenen, K. C.; Gilman, S. E. (October 2010). "Childhood adversity, adult stressful life events, and risk of past-year psychiatric disorder: a test of the stress sensitization hypothesis in a population-based sample of adults". Psychological Medicine. 40 (10): 1647–1658. doi:10.1017/S0033291709992121. PMC 2891275. PMID 20018126.
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