Theodore Beauchaine
William K. Warren Foundation ProfessorCo-director, Suicide Prevention Initiative—Research, Intervention, & Training (SPIRIT)
- Office
- E312 Corbett Family Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
- +1 574-631-3910
- tbeaucha@nd.edu
Suicide Prevention Initiative—Research, Intervention, & Training (SPIRIT)
Professor Beauchaine is open to mentoring graduate students in the fall.
Research and teaching interests
Developmental psychopathology; suicide prevention; self-harm; emotion dysregulation; biology x environment interactions; impulsivity; addiction.
Biography
Theodore Beauchaine is a developmental psychopathologist who studies how complex interactions between intrinsic person-level vulnerabilities (e.g., genetic predispositions, brain function, temperament) and extrinsic environmental risk factors (e.g., child abuse, neighborhood disadvantage) can result in mental health problems.
He is among the first psychopathologists to characterize common but different pathways to psychopathology that are often traversed by boys/men vs. girls/women with ADHD who are also at environmental risk (e.g., maltreatment, deviant peer affiliations). In such situations, boys/men are more likely to develop conduct problems and delinquent behaviors whereas girls/women are more likely to develop self-injury and suicidal behaviors. Both are at risk for lifelong impairment, including addiction. Beauchaine seeks to prevent these outcomes early in life with targeted intervention programs that improve emotion regulation.
Beauchaine is also president-elect for the International Society for Research in Child & Adolescent Psychopathology.
Education
Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Approach to Mentoring
In both my graduate and undergraduate mentoring, I encourage students to learn about and pursue questions they find most interesting, even when that means collaborating with another scientist to ensure the team has adequate expertise. I am encouraging and positive, yet I have high standards for research and written products from or lab.Representative Publications
Bell, Z. E., Fristad, M. A., Youngstrom, E. A., Arnold, L. E., Beauchaine, T. P. & the LAMS Consortium (2021). "Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms and externalizing progression in the LAMS Study: A test of trait impulsivity theory." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 61, 298-307. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2021.05.018
Beauchaine, T. P., Ben-David, I., & Bos, M. (2020). "ADHD, financial distress, and suicide in adulthood: A population study." Science Advances, 6, eaba1551. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aba1551
Beauchaine, T. P., & Hinshaw, S. P. (2020). "RDoC and psychopathology among youth: Misplaced assumptions and an agenda for future research." Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 49, 322-340. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2020.1750022
Beauchaine, T. P., Hinshaw, S. P., & Bridge, J. A. (2019). "Nonsuicidal self-injury and suicidal behaviors in girls: The case for targeted prevention in preadolescence." Clinical Psychological Science, 7, 643-667. doi: 10.1177/2167702618818474
Beauchaine, T. P., *Sauder, C. L., *Derbidge, C. M., & *Uyeji, L. L. (2019). "Self-injuring adolescent girls exhibit insular cortex volumetric abnormalities that are similar to those observed in adults with borderline personality disorder." Development and Psychopathology, 31, 1203-1212. doi: 10.1017/S0954579418000822