Research Faculty

William Beardslee, MD

Department Psychiatry
Hospital Title Director, Baer Prevention Initiatives
Academic Title

Gardner/Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Phone 617-919-4629
Fax 617-730-0759
Email William Beardslee

Website

Web-based training in the intervention Dr. Beardslee developed, Family Talk, is available at www.fampod.org

Location

Children’s Hospital Boston

Department of Psychiatry

Center for Behavioral Science

21 Autumn Street

Room 130.2

Boston, MA 02115

 

Research Overview

William Beardslee's research focuses on depression in children. He is principal investigator of long-term study that he and several colleagues first embarked upon in 1979. The researchers studied the lives of 275 children from 143 families in which the parents had depression or several risk factors for depression.

From this research he identified risk factors for depression in children and went on to implement a prevention program for families in crisis.In the last several years, the research effort has focused on helping other investigators use the approach, on treatment and preventive approaches for childhood depression and on international collaborations.

About William Beardslee

William Beardslee received his MD degree from Case Western Reserve University. He completed an internship at University of California Medical Center and a residency and fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston

Dr. Beardslee is the author of over 100 articles and chapters and two books: The Way Out Must Lead In: Life Histories in the Civil Rights Movement, which explores the mechanisms that allowed civil rights workers to endure; and Out of the Darkened Room: When a Parent Is Depressed: Protecting the Children and Strengthening the Family, a book about how parents and caregivers can help families overcome depression.

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