Heather Schatten, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a Research Psychologist in Butler Hospital's Psychosocial Research Program. Her work centers around identifying novel risk factors for suicidal ideation and behavior and developing real-time smartphone interventions targeting these risk factors.
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Schatten, H. T., Hughes, C. D., Kimble, S. K., Wallace, G., Benz, M. B., Kraines, M. A., Germain, E., Brick, L., Armey, M. F., Elwy, A. R., Weinstock, L. M., Miller, I. W., & Primack, J.
"Development and pilot testing of the Mobile Application to Prevent Suicide (MAPS)." cognitive therapy and research, vol. 42, 2025, pp. 156-172.
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Bozzay, M. L.,* Armey, M. F.,* Brick, L., Nugent, N., Huang, J., Goldschmidt, A., Schatten, H., Primack, J., & Saletin, J.
"Dynamic impacts of sleep disruption on ecologically assessed affective, behavioral, and cognitive risk factors for suicide: A study protocol." Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society, vol. 6, no. 2, 2025, pp. zpaf008.
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Sylvia, L.G.*, Busch, A.*, Rabideau, D., Gold, A., Danhauer, S., Schatten, H., Katz, D., Weinstock, L., Dahne, J., Schmid, S.P., Soetan, Z., Tovey, R., Pinto, K., Kvaka, A., Alvarez Hernandez, A., Hsu, I.R., Melendez, A., Adkins-Hempel, M., Grubb, A., Lozado, O., Alavi Fili, A., Chau, G., Uebelacker, L.
"Expanding first line options for depression & matching treatments: Hatha yoga vs. behavioral therapy (COMPARE): Protocol for a pragmatic comparative effectiveness trial." PLOS ONE, vol. 20, no. 1, 2025, pp. e0315506.
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Raudales, A. M., Wallace, G. T., Kiefer, R., Brick, L. A., Schatten, H. T., & Weiss, N. H.
"Momentary dynamics of intimate partner violence and posttraumatic stress symptoms among women: The influence of positive emotion dysregulation." 2025.
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Wallace, G. T., Bozzay, M. L., Brick, L. A., Miller, I. W., Mower-Provost, M., & Schatten, H. T.
"Rumination as a within-person indirect pathway between daily negative life events and suicidal ideation in recently hospitalized adults." journal of psychiatric research, 2025.
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Schatten, H. T.,* Wallace, G. T.,* Kimble, S. K., & Bozzay, M. L.
"Understanding compliance rates in suicide research during the post-discharge period." Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, vol. 55, no. 1, 2025, pp. e13167.
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| Moitra E, Amaral TM, Benz MB, Cambow S, Elwy AR, Kunicki ZJ, Lu Z, Rafferty NS, Rabasco A, Rossi R, Schatten HT, Gaudiano BA. "A Hybrid Type 1 trial of a multi-component mHealth intervention to improve post-hospital transitions of care for patients with serious mental illness: Study protocol." Contemporary Clinical Trials, vol. 139, 2024, pp. 107481. |
| Wallace GT, Brick LA, Provost EM, Peters JR, Miller IW, Schatten HT. "Daily Levels and Dynamic Metrics of Affective-Cognitive Constructs Associate With Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours in Adults After Psychiatric Hospitalization." Clinical psychology & psychotherapy, vol. 31, no. 2, 2024, pp. e2982. |
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Schatten, H.T.*, Kimble, S.K.*, Alboukrek, D., Carosa, C.L., Hughes, C.D., Armey, M.F., Miller, I.W., Elwy, A.R., & Primack, J.
"Development of the Mobile Application to Prevent Suicide (MAPS), a Personalized Smartphone App for Suicide Prevention: Feedback from Individual Interviews." 2024.
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| Rogers, Megan L., Bozzay, Melanie L., Hughes, Christopher D., Schatten, Heather T., Armey, Michael F. "Examining the predictive utility of suicidal ideation characteristics in relation to real‐time monitoring of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts at follow‐up." Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, vol. 54, no. 6, 2024, pp. 982-992. |
| Bozzay, M.L., Hughes, C.D., Eickhoff, C., Schatten, H., Armey, M.F. "Identifying momentary suicidal ideation using machine learning in patients at high-risk for suicide." Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 364, 2024, pp. 57-64. |
| Raudales AM, Yang M, Schatten HT, Armey MF, Weiss NH. "Daily reciprocal relations between emotion dysregulation and non-suicidal self-injury among individuals with a history of sexual assault: The influence of posttraumatic stress symptoms." Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, vol. 53, no. 1, 2023, pp. 124-136. |
| Raudales AM, Carosa CL, Weiss NH, Schatten HT, Armey MF. "Emotion dysregulation as a mechanism linking posttraumatic stress disorder to subsequent suicidal thoughts and behaviors following inpatient psychiatric discharge." Journal of Psychiatric Research, vol. 161, 2023, pp. 34-39. |
| Kaplan DM, Hughes CD, Schatten HT, Mehl MR, Armey MF, Nugent NR. "Emotional change in its "natural habitat": Measuring everyday emotion regulation with passive and active ambulatory assessment methods." Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, vol. 33, no. 2, 2023, pp. 123-140. |
| Schatten HT, Allen KJD, Carl EC, Miller IW 3rd, Armey MF. "Evaluating Potential Iatrogenic Effects of a Suicide-Focused Research Protocol." Crisis, vol. 43, no. 6, 2022, pp. 508-515. |
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Primack, J.M., Armey, M., Bozzay, M.L., Barredo, J., Holman, C., & Schatten, H.
"Feasibility and acceptability of the Mobile App for the Prevention of Suicide (MAPS)." Journal of Military Psychology, vol. 34, 2022, pp. 315-325.
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26. Carpenter, L., Hindley, L., Gonsalves, M., Schatten, H., Brown, J., & Tirrell, E.
"App-based ecological momentary assessment and symptom-adaptive scheduling of TMS maintenance treatments to prevent depressive episode recurrence." Brain Stimulation, vol. 14, 2021.
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| Allen KJD, Bozzay ML, Armey MF, Nugent NR, Miller Iii IW, Schatten HT. "Childhood Maltreatment, Emotional Response Inhibition, and Suicide in Psychiatric Inpatients." Behavior Therapy, vol. 52, no. 6, 2021, pp. 1529-1542. |
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"Childhood maltreatment, emotional response inhibition, and suicide in psychiatric inpatients." Behavior Therapy, 2021.
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| Schatten HT, Brick LA, Holman CS, Czyz E. "Differential time varying associations among affective states and suicidal ideation among adolescents following hospital discharge." Psychiatry Research, vol. 305, 2021, pp. 114174. |
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"Evaluating the Iatrogenic Effects of a Suicide-Focused Research Protocol: The Assessment Session Check-In (ASCI)." Crisis, 2021.
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"Feasibility and acceptability of the Mobile App for the Prevention of Suicide (MAPS)." Journal of Military Psychology, 2021.
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| Primack JM, Bozzay M, Barredo J, Armey M, Miller IW, Fisher JB, Holman C, Schatten H. "Feasibility and acceptability of the mobile application for the prevention of suicide (MAPS)." Military Psychology, vol. 34, no. 3, 2021, pp. 315-325. |
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"Positive emotion dysregulation identifies trauma-exposed community individuals at risk for suicide and nonsuicidal self-injury." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2021.
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| Raudales AM, Darosh AG, Contractor AA, Schatten HT, Dixon-Gordon KL, Weiss NH. "Positive Emotion Dysregulation Identifies Trauma-Exposed Community Individuals at Risk for Suicide and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury." The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, vol. 209, no. 6, 2021, pp. 434-442. |
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"Read Speech Voice Quality and Disfluency in Individuals with Recent Suicidal Ideation or Suicide Attempt." Speech Communication, 2021.
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"The patient with nonsuicidal self-injury." Inpatient Psychiatric Nursing Clinical Strategies and Practical Interventions, 2nd Edition, Springer Publishing Company, 2021.
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| Barredo, Jennifer, Bozzay, Melanie, Primack, Jennifer, Schatten, Heather, Armey, Michael, Carpenter, Linda L., Philip, Noah S. "Translating Interventional Neuroscience to Suicide: It’s About Time." Biological Psychiatry, vol. 89, no. 11, 2021, pp. 1073-1083. |
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"Translating interventional neuroscience to suicide: It’s about time." Biological Psychiatry, 2021.
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| Allen KJD, Johnson SL, Burke TA, Sammon MM, Wu C, Kramer MA, Wu J, Schatten HT, Armey MF, Hooley JM. "Validation of an emotional stop-signal task to probe individual differences in emotional response inhibition: Relationships with positive and negative urgency." Brain and neuroscience advances, vol. 5, 2021, pp. 23982128211058269. |
| Armey MF, Brick L, Schatten HT, Nugent NR, Miller IW. "Ecologically assessed affect and suicidal ideation following psychiatric inpatient hospitalization." General Hospital Psychiatry, vol. 63, 2020, pp. 89-96. |
| Westers NJ, Lewis SP, Whitlock J, Schatten HT, Ammerman B, Andover MS, Lloyd-Richardson EE. "Media guidelines for the responsible reporting and depicting of non-suicidal self-injury." The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2020, pp. 1-4. |
| Andover MS, Schatten HT, Holman CS, Miller IW. "Moderators of treatment response to an intervention for nonsuicidal self-injury in young adults." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, vol. 88, no. 11, 2020, pp. 1032-1038. |
| Schatten, Heather T., Gaudiano, Brandon A., Primack, Jennifer M., Arias, Sarah A., Armey, Michael F., Miller, Ivan W., Epstein-Lubow, Gary, Weinstock, Lauren M. "Monitoring, assessing, and responding to suicide risk in clinical research." Journal of Abnormal Psychology, vol. 129, no. 1, 2020, pp. 64-69. |
| Blevins, Claire E., Marsh, Eliza L., Stein, Michael D., Schatten, Heather T., Abrantes, Ana M. "Project CHOICE: Choosing healthy options in coping with emotions, an EMA/EMI plus in-person intervention for alcohol use." Substance Abuse, 2020, pp. 1-8. |
| Raudales AM, Weiss NH, Dixon-Gordon KL, Contractor AA, Schatten HT. "The role of emotion dysregulation in the association between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among veterans." Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2020. |
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Schatten, H.T., Allen, K.J.D., & Armey, M.A.
"Assessment of emotion dysregulation using ecological momentary assessment." Oxford Handbook of Emotion Regulation, edited by T. Beauchaine & S. Crowell, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Gideon, J., Schatten, H. T., McInnis, M. G., & Mower Provost, E.
"Emotion recognition from natural phone conversations in individuals with and without recent suicidal ideation." 2019.
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| Assari S, Schatten HT, Arias SA, Miller IW, Camargo CA, Boudreaux ED. "Higher Educational Attainment is Associated with Lower Risk of a Future Suicide Attempt Among Non-Hispanic Whites but not Non-Hispanic Blacks." Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, vol. 6, no. 5, 2019, pp. 1001-1010. |
| Nugent NR, Pendse SR, Schatten HT, Armey MF. "Innovations in Technology and Mechanisms of Change in Behavioral Interventions." Behavior Modification, 2019, pp. 145445519845603. |
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10. Armey, M.F., Brick, L., Schatten, H.T., Nugent, N.R., & Miller, I.W.
"Ecologically assessed affect and suicidal ideation following psychiatric inpatient hospitalization." General Hospital Psychiatry, 2018.
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| Allen KJD, Fox KR, Schatten HT, Hooley JM. "Frequency of nonsuicidal self-injury is associated with impulsive decision-making during criticism." Psychiatry Research, vol. 271, 2018, pp. 68-75. |
| Andover, Margaret S., Schatten, Heather T., Morris, Blair W., Holman, Caroline S., Miller, Ivan W. "An intervention for nonsuicidal self-injury in young adults: A pilot randomized controlled trial." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, vol. 85, no. 6, 2017, pp. 620-631. |
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Andover, M. S., Schatten, H. T., & Morris, B. W.
"Suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury in borderline personality disorder." Primer in Borderline Personality Disorder, edited by B. Stanley, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2017.
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| Andover MS, Schatten HT, Morris BW, Miller IW. "Development of an Intervention for Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Young Adults: An Open Pilot Trial." Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, vol. 22, no. 4, 2015, pp. 491-503. |
| Armey, Michael F, Schatten, Heather T, Haradhvala, Natasha, Miller, Ivan W. "Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) of depression-related phenomena." Current Opinion in Psychology, vol. 4, 2015, pp. 21-25. |
| Andover, M. S., Wren, A., Schatten, H. T., Morris, B. W., Shashoua, M. Y., & Holman, C. S. "Non-suicidal self-injury." Handbook of adolescent behavioral problems: Evidence-based approaches to prevention and treatment, 2nd ed., edited by Gullotta, Thomas P., (Ed); Plant, Robert W., (Ed); Evans, Melanie A., (Ed), New York, Springer Science+Business Media, 2015, pp. 631-648. |
| Lloyd-Richardson EE, Lewis SP, Whitlock JL, Rodham K, Schatten HT. "Research with adolescents who engage in non-suicidal self-injury: ethical considerations and challenges." Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health, vol. 9, 2015, pp. 37. |
| Schatten, H. T., Andover, M. S., & Armey, M. F. "The roles of social stress and decision-making in non-suicidal self-injury." Psychiatry Research, vol. 229, no. 3, 2015, pp. 983-991. |
| Costello, E., & Schatten, H. "Dialectical behavior therapy demonstrated: Strategies for anger management." PsycCRITIQUES, vol. 59, no. 28, 2014. |
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Andover, M. S., Morris, B. W., Schatten, H. T., & Kelly, C. A.
"Assessment of suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury in anxiety disorders." Handbook of Assessing Variants and Complications in Anxiety Disorders , edited by D. McKay & E. Storch, New York, Springer Press, 2013.
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"Psychiatric disorders and non-suicidal self-injury among youth: Implications for mental health professionals in the school system." School Psychology Forum, 2013.
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| Andover, M. S., Schatten, H. T., Crossman, D. M., & Donovick, P. J. "Neuropsychological functioning in prisoners with and without self-injurious behaviors: Implications for the criminal justice system." Criminal Justice and Behavior, vol. 38, no. 11, 2011, pp. 1103-1114. |
| Andover MS, Schatten HT, Crossman DM, Donovick PJ. "NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING IN PRISONERS WITH AND WITHOUT SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIORS: Implications for the Criminal Justice System." Criminal Justice and Behavior, vol. 38, no. 11, 2011, pp. 1103-1114. |
| Flack WF Jr, Caron ML, Leinen SJ, Breitenbach KG, Barber AM, Brown EN, Gilbert CT, Harchak TF, Hendricks MM, Rector CE, Schatten HT, Stein HC. "The red zone": temporal risk for unwanted sex among college students." Journal of Interpersonal Violence, vol. 23, no. 9, 2008, pp. 1177-96. |
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"Luminance gauge photometry." Journal of Vision, 2004.
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ACTIVE
“Examining Transactional Relationships between Sensor-Derived Alcohol Use Data and Suicide Risk in Daily Life”
R01AA0314840-01A1 09/20/2025 – 07/31/2029 NIAAA
Role: Principal Investigator (MPI: Weiss/Schatten)
“Assessing Warning Signs for Suicide in Intensive Longitudinal Designs: Development and Validation of a Brief Measure”
ECR-1-146-24 2025 – 2027 AFSP
Role: Consultant (PI: Rogers)
“Ambulatory Assessment of Glucose Regulation in Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors”
K23MH140070 05/01/2025 – 4/30/2030 NIMH
Role: Co-Primary Mentor (PI: Wallace)
“Youth Partners in Care for Suicide Prevention (YPIC-SP)”
SP‐20203‐21078 07/2021 – 01/2028 PCORI
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Asarnow/Goldston)
“Ecological Assessment of Proximal Risk Factors for Suicide During Care Transitions”
R01MH128248 01/01/2023 – 10/31/2027 NIMH
Role: Principal Investigator (MPI: Armey/Schatten/Hughes)
“Effectiveness of a multi-component mHealth intervention to improve post-hospital transitions of care for patients with SMI”
R01MH130496 09/01/2022 – 07/31/2027 NIMH
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Gaudiano/Moitra)
“Expanding First-Line Options for Depression and Matching Treatments: Hatha Yoga vs. Behavioral Therapy”
PCS-2021C1-22396 04/2021 – 03/2027 PCORI
Role: Co-Investigator (MPI: Sylvia/Uebelacker)
“Noninvasive continuous measurement of biochemical markers for suicide in a high-risk clinical sample”
PRG-0-167-23 12/2024 – 11/2026 AFSP
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Wallace)
“Postdoctoral Training in Suicide Research”
T32MH126426 07/01/2021 – 06/30/2026 NIMH
Role: Program Faculty (MPI: Miller/Weinstock)
“Dynamic Impacts of Sleep Disruption on Ecologically Assessed Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Risk Factors for Suicide”
R01MH124832-01 12/01/2020 – 10/31/2025 (NCE) NIMH
Role: Co-Investigator (MPI: Armey/Bozzay)
“Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of a Novel Personalized Mobile Intervention for Suicide”
SRG-1-119-18 02/01/2020 – 05/31/2025 (NCE) AFSP
Role: Principal Investigator (PI: Schatten)
“Project CHOICE: Choosing Healthy Options in Coping with Emotions, a Personalized-Feedback EMA/EMI Study for Emerging Adults Leaving Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization”
R34AA028572-01A1 07/05/2021 – 03/31/2025 (NCE) NIAAA
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Abrantes)
| Year | Degree | Institution |
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| 2014 | PhD | Fordham University |
| 2010 | MA | Fordham University |
| 2006 | MA | Columbia University |
| 2005 | BA | Bucknell University |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | Brown Medicine, Butler Hospital | 2014-2016 |
2005 Psi Chi, National Honor Society in Psychology, Bucknell University
2008 – 2012 Presidential Scholarship, Department of Psychology, Fordham University
2009 – 2013 Dr. M.J. Werthman Scholarship, Department of Psychology, Fordham University
2011 – 2012 Teaching Fellowship, Department of Psychology, Fordham University
2012 – 2013 Senior Teaching Fellowship, Department of Psychology, Fordham University
2015 – 2016 Senior Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University
2015 – 2024 Awardee, NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program (w/ competitive renewals)
2025 Education Committee Award, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University
| Clinical Psychology | Rhode Island | 2016-2021 | |
| Authorized to provide teletherapy in 40 states and District of Columbia through PSYPACT | - | #APIT Number 7938 |
| Research Psychologist. Butler Hospital , 2016-Present |
