My research interests include vulnerability to depression and the development of depression prevention strategies, with a focus on females and underserved populations. I am particularly interested in identifying mechanisms that underlie gender, class, and racial/ethnic disparities in depression. My work aims to define more clearly the pathways by which social status factors shape mental health outcomes via psychological and physiological responses.

I integrate my training as a clinical psychologist with approaches drawn from social psychology, sociology, and psychiatric epidemiology. My research has included laboratory-based experiments, as well as population-based data analyses and intervention and prevention trials.

"Mental Health", depression, perinatal depression, women's health, minority mental health, social status and health, prevention and intervention

Faculty Innovations Fund Awardee, JHSPH (2008-2009)

Career Development Institute (CDI) for Psychiatry, Stanford University, CA (2007)

Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, Harvard University (2004-2006)

Robert E. Harris Memorial Award: Outstanding Clinical Psychology Fellow, University of California, San Francisco (2004)

NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from NIMH (2001-2002)

American Psychological Foundation Graduate Research Scholarship in Psychology (2001-2002)

Aleane Webb Dissertation Research Fellowship, Duke University (2001-2002)

James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University (1997-2001)

Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University (1993)

Magna cum laude, Yale University (1993)

Distinction in the Humanities Major, Yale University (1993)

Marshall Dodge Prize for Philosophy, Yale University (1990)

Munk-Olsen, T., Laursen, T.M., Mendelson, T., Pedersen, C.B., Mors, O., & Mortensen, P.B. (In press). Risks and predictors of readmission with a mental disorder during the postpartum period. Archives of General Psychiatry.

Leis, J.A., Mendelson, T., Tandon, S.D., & Perry, D.F. (In press). A systematic review of home-based interventions to prevent and treat postpartum depression. Archives of Women's Mental Health.

Mendelson, T., Rehkopf, D., & Kubzansky, L.D. (2008.) Depression among Latinos in the United States: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 355-366.

Mendelson, T., Thurston, R.C., & Kubzansky, L.D. (2008.) Affective and cardiovascular effects of experimentally-induced social status. Health Psychology, 27, 482-489.

Mendelson, T., Kubzansky, L.D., Datta, G. & Buka, S.L. (2008.) Relation of gender and socioeconomic status to internalizing symptoms among adolescents: A case of double jeopardy? Social Science and Medicine, 66, 1284-1296.

Muñoz, R. F., Le, H.-N., Ippen, C. G., Diaz, M., Urizar, G., Soto, J., Mendelson, T., Delucchi, K., & Lieberman, A. (2007). Prevention of depression during pregnancy and postpartum: Development of a Spanish/English intervention. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 14, 70-83.

Mendelson, T. & Muñoz, R.F. (2006). Prevention of depression in women. C.L.M. Keyes & S.H. Goodman (Eds.), Women and depression: A handbook for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences (pp. 451-478). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Muñoz, R.F. & Mendelson, T. (2005). Toward evidence-based interventions for diverse populations: The San Francisco General Hospital prevention and treatment manuals. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 790-799.

Mendelson, T. & Gruen, R.J. (2005). Self-criticism, failure, and dysphoric affect: A test of personality-event congruence and symptom specificity. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 29, 301-314.

Muñoz, R.F. & Mendelson, T. (2004). Prevention of mental disorders. In W.E. Craighead & C. Nemeroff (Eds.), The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, 3rd Edition (pp.724-725). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Krause, E.D., Mendelson, T., & Lynch, T.R. (2003). Childhood emotion invalidation and adult psychological distress: The mediating role of emotion inhibition. Child Abuse and Neglect, 27, 199-213.

Lynch, T.R., Morse, J.Q., Mendelson, T., & Robins, C.J. (2003). A randomized trial of dialectical behavior therapy for depressed older adults: Post-treatment and six month follow-up. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11, 33-45.

Mendelson, T., Robins, C.J., & Johnson, C.S. (2002). Relations of sociotropy and autonomy to developmental experiences among psychiatric patients. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 26, 189-198.

Lynch, T.R., Compton, J.S., Mendelson, T., Robins, C.J., & Krishnan, K.R.K. (2000). Anxious depression among the elderly: Clinical and phenomenological correlates. Aging and Mental Health, 4, 268-274.

Lynch, T.R., Mendelson, T., Robins, C.J., Krishnan, K.R.K., George, L.K., Johnson, C.S., & Blazer, D. G. (1999). Perceived social support among depressed elderly, middle-aged, and young adult samples: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. Journal of Affective Disorders, 55, 159-170.

Lynch, T.R., Johnson, C.S., Mendelson, T., Robins, C.J., Krishnan, K.R.K., & Blazer, D.G. (1999). Correlates of suicidal ideation among an elderly sample. Journal of Affective Disorders, 56, 9-15.

Lynch, T.R., Johnson, C.S., Mendelson, T., Robins, C.J., Krishnan, K.R.K., & Blazer, D.G. (1999). New onset and remission of suicidal ideation among a depressed adult sample. Journal of Affective Disorders, 56, 49-54.