Child Study Center

The Child Study Center provides care for children and adolescents with psychiatric, developmental and behavioral disorders in a spectrum of integrated inpatient and outpatient settings. Clinical faculty include child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, child therapists and other affiliated mental health professionals.

The Child Psychiatric Inpatient Service in the Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital provides intensive, specialized diagnosis and treatment for children from early childhood through age 16 who are suffering from severe psychiatric, developmental, and behavioral disorders. Under the leadership of child and adolescent psychiatrists, the inpatient service is nationally recognized for providing high quality, intensive clinical intervention in a warm, family-oriented environment. The inpatient service specializes in the diagnosis and care of children and young adolescents with complex neuropsychiatric, behavioral and developmental disorders, including children with tic syndromes, obsessive/compulsive disorder, conduct disturbances, developmental disorders, depression, appetite disorders, and suicidality. The service has special clinical programs for children with psychiatric disorders that are related to medical conditions and cognitive difficulties. The inpatient school offers academic evaluation and educational planning. The partial hospital program is closely coordinated with the inpatient service and community-based care. The inpatient and partial hospital programs are also closely integrated with the Child Study Center's intensive, home-based mental health services.

The outpatient programs in the Child Study Center offer a comprehensive range of evaluation and treatment services for infants, children, pre-teens, adolescents and their families. Under the medical leadership of child and adolescent psychiatrists, children are provided evaluation and treatment for emotional, developmental, behavioral and psychiatric disorders, including disorders of development, autism and pervasive disorders, emotional disorders, conduct and behavioral disturbances, and attentional, learning and communication disorders. Special services are provided in relation to school issues, child custody and placement, and families experiencing stress, including the impact of trauma. Outpatient services are closely integrated with intensive, home-based mental health treatment programs, school-based clinical services, and community-based crisis and trauma services.

The Child Study Center Specialty Clinical Services are internationally recognized for the evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with complex disorders. These include autism, Asperger's syndrome, pervasive developmental disorders, Tourette's syndrome and tic disorders, obsessive/compulsive disorder, developmental and emotional problems of infants and young children, psychiatric disorders of individuals with intellectual disability and other complicated neuro-psychiatric conditions.

Child Study Center faculty members provide the full range of current treatment approaches, including psychotherapy, pharmacological treatments, family therapy, cognitive and behavioral treatment, and psychoanalysis, as well as educational consultation.

Inpatient Child Psychiatry

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	Laurie Cardona, PsyD	Associate Research Scientist in the Child Study Center and Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing; Chief of Psychology, Yale Child Study Center; Co-Director, Yale Child Study Center Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Service	(203) 785-6227 Appts (203) 785-7400 Fax
	Andrés S. Martin, MD, MPH	Riva Ariella Ritvo Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Chair for Training and Education and Director of Medical Studies, Yale Child Study Center; Medical Director, Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital
	Yann B Poncin, MD	Assistant Professor in the Child Study Center	(203) 785-3413 Appts (203) 785-7400 Fax
	Dorothy Stubbe, MD	Associate Professor in the Child Study Center; Program Director of Residency Training; Associate Medical Director Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service Yale New Haven Hospital	(203) 785-2516 Appts (203) 785-7400 Fax

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Tourette’s Syndrome & Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

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	Michael Howard Bloch, MD, MS	Assistant Professor in the Child Study Center
	Robert A King, MD	Professor in the Child Study Center and of Psychiatry; Medical Director, Tourette's/OCD Clinic at Yale Child Study Center	(203) 785-5880 Appts (203) 737-5104 Fax
	James Frederick Leckman, MD	Neison Harris Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Pediatrics and of Psychiatry	(203) 785-5880 Appts (203) 785-4914 Fax
	Paul J Lombroso, MD	Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychiatry; Director, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology
	Denis Sukhodolsky, PhD	Assistant Professor in the Child Study Center	(203) 785-5880 Appts

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Yale Autism Program

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	Katarzyna Chawarska, PhD	Associate Professor in the Child Study Center and of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics); Director, Toddler Developmental Disabilities Clinic	(203) 764-5933 Appts (203) 764-4373 Fax
	Michele Anne Goyette-Ewing, PhD	Associate Research Scientist in the Child Study Center; Director, Psychology Training	(203) 785-2513 Appts (203) 785-4914 Fax
	James C McPartland, PhD	Assistant Professor in the Child Study Center and of Psychology; Associate Director, Developmental Electrophysiology Lab; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Yale Child Study Center; Director, Yale Developmental Disabilities Clinic	(203) 785-3420 Appts (203) 764-5663 Fax
	Pamela Ventola, PhD	Associate Research Scientist in the Child Study Center	(203) 785-3420 Appts (203) 785-7357 Fax
	Fred R Volkmar, MD	Irving B. Harris Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Pediatrics, of Psychiatry and of Psychology; Chief, Child Psychiatry at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital; Chair, Child Study Center	(203) 785-3420 Appts (203) 785-7402 Fax
	Julie M Wolf, PhD	Associate Research Scientist in the Child Study Center	(203) 785-2117 Appts (203) 785-7357 Fax

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Sections

• Inpatient Child Psychiatry
• Tourette’s Syndrome & Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
• Yale Autism Program

Programs & Centers

• Anxiety Program
• Child Study Center Voluntary Faculty
• Childhood Violent Trauma Clinic
• Developmental Disabilities Program
• Emergency Services
• Madison Practice
• Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic
• Parenting Center & Child Conduct Clinic
• Partial Hospital Program
• Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration
• Technology and Innovation Laboratory
• Yale Academic Skills Clinic