Klimes-Dougan, Bonnie Ph.D.

Bonnie Klimes-Dougan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Dr. Klimes-Dougan received her Ph.D. in clinical child psychology at Florida State University and completed her internship at Duke University Medical Center. Over more than 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 faculty of the University of Minnesota, Department of Psychiatry 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.