Child & Adolescent Related Content

All too often, getting to the right diagnosis and treatment plan for a mental health disorder is a time-consuming, confusing, and stressful progression of guesswork, trial and error, and missed opportunities. This painful scenario is only intensified when it’s a child who is struggling. Dr. Alex De...

Black children in the United States are more likely to experience childhood adversity than white children, and these disparities are reflected in differential changes to regions of the brain linked to psychiatric diseases like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to new research led by...

McLean Hospital, a member of Mass General Brigham, has received a $1 million gift from Karen and Rob Hale through their family foundation, Fox Rock Foundation. This substantial gift will support McLean’s plans to enhance and centralize its environments for children and adolescents , in particular...

To tackle the growing mental health crisis facing children and adolescents and the difficulties families face accessing treatments for disorders such as anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), two McLean Hospital-affiliated clinicians have launched an innovative virtual treatment program...

As some reports suggest that anxiety disorders may have more than doubled during the pandemic, the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP) has been at the vanguard of treating children and adolescents who struggle with a wide range of disorders, including social anxiety, panic attacks, agoraphobia...

McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital mental health experts have teamed up with award-winning journalist Jeanne Blake to develop a new online program to address current and lingering mental health effects from the COVID-19 pandemic on children and adolescents. The toolkit, which is...

Daniel P. Dickstein, MD, FAAP , will become chief of the Nancy and Richard Simches Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at McLean Hospital, effective September 1, 2022. Dickstein will succeed Joseph Gold, MD , who has successfully led the division for more than 20 years. While Gold is...

“Thank you for everything. I thought I’d lost her.” As the program director at McLean’s newly launched adolescent inpatient program in Middleborough, Massachusetts, Joyce Velt, LICSW , has had dozens of notes, letters, and phone calls from grateful parents expressing similar sentiments. The idea of...

“I knew right from the beginning I wanted to be in psychiatry,” said Kristen Lancaster, RN . “I’ve been in the mental health field ever since.” Lancaster, nurse director for McLean SouthEast Adolescent Services and McLean SouthEast at Oak Street Adolescent Inpatient Program , has dedicated her...

Teaching, mentoring, and helping others comes naturally to Fairlee C. Fabrett, PhD . As director of clinical training for McLean Hospital’s Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment (ART) Program , she supervises and supports post-doctoral fellows and clinical trainees, helping them gain the experience...

Julianne Wilner Tirpak, PhD, an early career psychologist, understands that dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is the gold-standard treatment for young people who struggle to manage their emotions, particularly those who exhibit self-harm or suicidal behaviors. As the inaugural recipient of a unique...

Several years ago, Stephen and Ruth Palmer were sitting on their porch reflecting on the state of the world. In that moment, they decided to make a point of remembering those who had helped them in challenging times. Shortly after, they made a $1,000,000 gift to McLean Hospital to establish the...

When he was still a graduate student in the 1970s, Michael Hollander’s first patient was an adolescent who was in a great deal of emotional pain. “She was suicidal, self-injurious, and probably would have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder had we been able to do that in those days...

McLean Hospital’s Office of Education Outreach has received a grant from the Rare Impact Fund to expand its popular webinar series. With the funding, McLean will develop webinars focused on youth mental health and wellness for audiences in the U.S. and beyond. The series will guide teens, parents...

Renowned physician-scientist Daniel P. Dickstein, MD, FAAP , has come to McLean Hospital to further his groundbreaking research on the biology of childhood psychiatric disorders —and to help improve mental health care for children, teens, and young adults. Dickstein is uniquely trained and board...

Christian A. Webb, PhD , received the 2021 Anne Marie Albano Early Career Award for Excellence in the Integration of Science and Practice from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT). Webb, who is the director of McLean’s Treatment and Etiology of Depression in Youth (TEDY)...

Some days, Patrick Lovelace couldn’t make it until 3pm at his large public high school, and he’d call his mother to pick him up early. Other days, he refused to go altogether. His anxiety was crippling; healthy relationships were hard to nurture. So, when his family proposed that he check out McLean...