Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center

Sarah Martin, PhDSarah Martin, PhD

Background Information

Sarah Martin, PhD, earned her undergraduate degree from Duke University. She completed her PhD in clinical psychology at Penn State University in 2000 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium at Brown Medical School. She joined the faculty at Brown in 2002.

Currently, Martin is a supervising psychologist at the Pediatric Partial Hospital Program (PPHP), a family-centered intensive day treatment program for very young children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbances.

In her role at the PPHP, Martin provides a range of clinical and family treatment services, and also conducts research focused on emotion and family factors in the development of serious psychopathology in young children. As part of her training responsibilities at Brown Medical School, Martin also teaches and supervises predoctoral clinical psychology externs, postdoctoral clinical psychology fellows, and child psychiatry and triple board fellows.

Research Interests

Martin’s research interests are in early emotional development and emotion regulation, developmental psychopathology, and parenting processes. She is particularly interested in the role of emotions and emotion regulation in the emergence of early psychopathology, and in the role of emotions in parenting and parenting difficulties.

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