Mary Carlson

Title

 Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Email

 mary_carlson@hms.harvard.edu

Telephone

 617-495-5380

Fax

 617-495-5633

Department

 Psychiatry-Children's Hospital

School

 Harvard Medical School

Regions of Interest

  Caribbean Region

Countries of Interest

  Costa Rica, Brazil

Areas of Expertise

  Medicine

Mailing Address

 Harvard University-CHASE Child Health and Social Ecology 2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138

Office Location

 

Research Interest

 Development of citizenship skills in children and youth; diliberative democracy, social ecology

Web Page

  http://www.hms.harvard.edu/chase/

Courses

 

Publications

 

Earls F, Carlson M (2001) The Social Ecology of Child Health and Well-Being.  Ann Rev. Public Health, 22:143-166.    

 

Carlson M, Earls F. (2001) The child as citizen: Implications for the science and practice of child development.  International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development Newsletter; 38:12-16.

 

Carlson M (2001) Child rights and mental health, Culture and Societal Influences. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol. 10, 825-839.

 

Earls F, Carlson M  (2002)  Adolescents as Collaborators: In Search of Well-being, In Youth in Cities: Successful Mediators of Normative Development (M. Tienda and W.J. Wilson, eds).: p 58-83.  

 

Carlson M (with F. Earls and C. Fonseca) (2002) Children and Democracy, In: Democracy in Latin America . Looking Back, Thinking Ahead,  ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Vol 2: 39-41. 

 

Chan B, Carlson M, Trickett B, Earls F.  (2003) Youth participation: A critical element of research on child well-being. In: Lerner RM, Benson PL, editors. Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities: Implications for Research Policy and Programs. New York :  Kluwer –Plenum; pp.65-96.

 

Duarte CS, Rizzini I, Hoven CW, Carlson M and Earls FJ. (in press). The Evolution of Child Rights Councils in Brazil , International Journal of Children’s Rights.