TOWARD BUILDING FEASIBLE, EFFICACIOUS AND SUSTAINABLE TREATMENTS FOR DEPRESSION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

摘要

Helen Verdeli, Ph.D., M.A., M.Sc-1,Sc-2. is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, and an adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her research focuses on the treatment and prevention of mood disorders through psychotherapy. She has been adapting and testing Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) as a preventive intervention for symptomatic adolescents of Bipolar parents. For this work, she has received a NARSAD Young Investigator award, a Sol Goldman Trust award, and an NIMH Research Career Development K23 award. She has also adapted and tested psychotherapy for depressed people in developing countries. She has collaborated with academic and humanitarian groups in the US and abroad and has had a major role in the cultural modification of IPT for use in resource-poor communities: with depressed adults in southern Uganda, depressed adolescents in Internally Displaced Persons camps in northern Uganda, and distressed adult patients in primary care In Goa, India. Dr. Verdeli is a member of the Mental Health Advisory Committee for the Millennium Villages Project of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the Scientific Advisory Council of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the Scientific Advisory Board of Depressive and Bipolar Support Alliance.