Ann Doucette, Youth Suicide

Ann Doucette, PhD, is a senior research associate at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Doucette conducts research with children and adolescents at risk of adverse developmental outcomes, particularly youth violence, gang involvement, mental health disorders, and youth suicide. Her work in the area of youth violence prevention focuses on school and community settings and on the role of child/adolescent and family mental health status and family violence in mediating aggressive youth behavior. Dr. Doucette is currently developing a comprehensive, integrated measurement system that assesses both treatment process indicators as well as service intervention outcomes for children and adolescents receiving behavioral health care services. She cochairs the Outcomes Roundtable for Children, supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and chairs the Measurement Specification/Design/Methods Workgroup of the Forum on Performance Measures for Behavioral Healthcare and Related Service Systems. Dr. Doucette received her doctoral training at Columbia University.