Students train at this site during the fourth year of the program. Group therapy is offered for adolescents with general issues and specific problems such as social skills deficits. A literature seminar, staff and student inservices, a monthly lecture series, and two annual conferences are offered to enhance student knowledge of important issues in child and adolescent psychiatry. Intensive clinical supervision is provided. All graduate students in the program receive the same coursework in the first year.
Students begin to specialize in their second year by taking courses on child and adolescent topics.
Clinical interests include family therapy, depression, eating disorders, and sexual abuse. Present research interests include outcome studies of group and multimodal treatment of disruptive behavior disorders, attachment and regulatory disorders in preschoolers, and intervention programs for preschoolers with disruptive behavior disorders in primary care settings. Clinical interests are family therapy, trauma, and multi-modal treatment of disruptive behavior disorders. Present research interests include children's mental health services, psychological aspects of pediatric primary care, and treatment outcome with children. Clinical interests are treatment of somatoforma and anxiety disorders, and feeding disorders with young children.