Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Clinician Educator

Overview

Dr. Wolff is an Associate Professor at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Staff Psychologist at Rhode Island and Bradley Hospitals. She is the Director of the Adolescent Mental Health Collaborative (AMHC) that aims to improve mental health for youth through research, treatment, and training and the Director of the COBRE-funded Pediatric Biopsychology Core at Bradley Hospital that promotes sleep and mental health research.

Dr. Wolff's program of research involves three primary aims: 1) delineating social, cognitive, and affective mechanisms underlying adolescent psychopathology, 2) translating these findings into treatments, and 3) implementing these treatments in real-world settings. She focuses on emotional and behavioral dysregulation as well as suicide prevention. She is currently PI/MPI on four NIH grants. These include 1) a project that focuses on improving routine practices and quality of care in inpatient and community settings for underserved youth and those involved in the juvenile justice system; 2) a study that aims to develop a valid assessment protocol for suicidal thoughts and behaviors in preteens; 3) an implementation grant that aims to use a computerized parenting intervention in a community mental health center; and 4) a pilot investigation of social media and parenting.  

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