Bonnie Klimes-Dougan

Assistant Professor
Phone: (612) 273-9711
Email: klimes@umn.edu

Dr. Klimes-Dougan is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in 1992 in Clinical Child Psychology at Florida State University having completed her internship at Duke University Medical Center. Over a decade she has been involved conducting research at the National Institute of Mental Health and The Catholic University of America, first as a Fellow and later as an Assistant Professor of Psychology. She joined the Department of Psychiatry Faculty of the University of Minnesota in 2004.

Her research is on youth at risk for depression and those experiencing depressive and suicidal symptoms. Her focus is in understanding how disruptions in the stress reactivity system may place individuals at risk for depression and has addressed this broad topic by examining a number of regulatory systems (e.g., physiological reactivity of the HPA axis, coping, executive functioning). She also studies ways in which parents serve to facilitate the child's regulatory capacities through research on emotion socialization and attachment. Her current research also involves applications of Early Risers and other prevention interventions to children at risk for depression.

She has served on the editorial board of Development and Psychopathology, recently co-edited a special issue for Social Development on emotion socialization during middle childhood and adolescence, and has served as an ad hoc reviewer for over a dozen journals.