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Residency Training - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Research/Scholarly Activity

All second-year residents develop an individual research project or scholarly activity under direct, ongoing supervision by a senior faculty member. In addition, monthly meetings with peers pursuing related areas of research and more experienced research fellows facilitate project development and broaden the educational benefit of this experience.

Research Activities

The following provides examples of current research activities within the divisions of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medical College.

Neuropsychiatry

• MRI studies on OCD, Tourette's, depression, bipolar disorder, and autism;
• development of low-birth-weight children.
• MRI of infants exposed prenatally to drugs of abuse
• Children at high and low risk for depression
• The epidemiology of early CNS injury and psychopathology

Antisocial Behavior And Abusive Relationships

• Assessment of psychiatric risk in incarcerated youth
• The utility of mental health assessments in incarcerated youth
• Development of antisocial behaviors in mainland and island Puerto Rican children
• Prevention of dating violence in youth with conduct problems
• Mood changes in juvenile offenders before and after rehabilitation
• Impact of parental incarceration

Attention-Deficit Disorder

• Methylphenidate efficacy and safety in preschoolers
• Phase-two studies on new medication
• ASSESSMENT TOOLS
• Brief diagnostic screening tools, e.g., DPS, TeenScreen®, and Quick DISC
• Examining the value of computerized interviews for screening as an adjunct to
• clinical assessment in high-risk settings
• Investigating the sources of unreliability in diagnostic assessment
• Assessment of suicidal ideation
• Assessment of unwanted effects in clinical trials

Eating Disorders

• Metabolism and body composition
• Fluoxetine after weight restoration for anorexia nervosa
• Pilot study of manualized family therapy for adolescents with anorexia nervosa
• Psychobiology of eating behavior in binge-eating disorder and obesity
• Pharmacological treatments for binge-eating disorder

Mood And Anxiety Disorders

• Controlled trial of fluoxetine in pediatric dysthymic disorder
• Treatment for adolescents with depression
• Outcome research on psychodynamic therapy for adolescents with panic disorder
• Phase-two studies of obsessive-compulsive disorder

Post-Disaster Child Psychopathology

• Effects of the World Trade Center attack on New York City public-school students
• Familial transmission and child PTSD
• PTSD and substance use/abuse in youth
• Treatment of subsyndromal depression

Services-Provision Research

• Systems of care for seriously emotionally disturbed children
• Parent Empowerment Project: Manual preparation
• New York City Mental Health Assessment Partnership
• Health Disparities Collaborative: Adolescent Depression
• Screening for mood and other disorders

Youth Suicide

• Studies on epidemiology, contagion, intervention, and prevention
• Developing a rational basis for suicide postvention
• Investigating the mechanisms of youth suicide clusters
• Treatment of Adolescent Suicide Attempters (TASA)
• Use of hot line by teens: An experimental approach
• Aspects of risk for suicidal behavior in children and adolescents
• Effects of family suicide on children, adolescents, and parents
• Phenomenology of suicide ideation