Preventing Youth Depression in a Digital Age
When:
Thursday, May 10, 2018 12:30p -
1:30p
Thursday, May 10, 2018 12:30p -
1:30p
Where:
Wellesley Centers for Women, Cheever House, Wellesley College
828 Washington St
Wellesley, MA 02482
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, Meetup, Social Good, University
Event website:
wcwonline.org/calendar
As many as 13–20 percent of adolescents in the U.S. and other developed countries experience minor or major depressive episodes each year. To address this problem, Tracy Gladstone, Ph.D., a senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, developed and evaluated a self-guided, internet-based primary care intervention, CATCH-IT. During this presentation, Gladstone will discuss the intervention and share outcome data from a federally-funded trial that suggest CATCH-IT may be effective in preventing depressive episodes in primary care for adolescents and parents willing to engage with the program at a modest level and may be particularly beneficial for adolescents with elevated levels of depressive symptoms.
This program is part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series at the Wellesley Centers for Women, which is free and open to the public. Most programs are held Thursdays, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. at the Centers’ Cheever House location (828 Washington St, Wellesley), and parking is available on site. Guests are invited to bring their lunches; WCW will provide tea and coffee. For accessibility questions, contact Disability Services at Wellesley College at [email protected] or call 781.283.2434. The Lunchtime Seminar Series schedule is subject to change. To confirm program lineup and location, call 781.283.2500 or visit wcwonline.org/calendar.
For those who are unable to attend in person, the program will be streamed live on the WCW Facebook page (@wcwonline). Recordings from past seminars are posted online at wcwonline.org/video.
The Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) is the largest academic, women-and gender-focused, social-change-driven, research-and-action institute in the United States, located at Wellesley College. Scholars at WCW advance gender equality, social justice, and human wellbeing through high-quality research, theory, and action programs. Areas of work include: Education, Economic Security, Mental Health, Youth and Adolescent Development, and Gender-Based Violence.
