About Yale Child Study Center

Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) faculty, staff, and trainees have served children and families from birth through adolescence since 1911. At our core is the mission to improve the lives of children and families through research, service, and training.

YCSC community members are engaged in this mission in a variety of ways, from shaping policies that impact children and families to conducting cutting edge research and providing direct clinical care for children and families, to offering training and professional development for a broad array of professionals. The department's educational efforts include clinical and research training in child psychiatry, social work, and child psychology, as well as specific intervention and prevention approaches, training and consultation with school personnel, and special areas of child and family mental health.

Serving as the Department of Child Psychiatry for Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital, we are also a center for basic research on the earliest neurodevelopment and behavioral challenges affecting children. We are engaged in the broader community through the provision of direct services for children and families in clinic and community settings, as well as in homes and pediatric practices.

The department continues to grow in many areas, from basic research in the genetic and neurobiological basis of childhood psychiatric disorders, to training clinicians around the world in state-of-the-art mental health service delivery, and more. We are committed to continued improvement in all that we do, as well as learning from our work with children and families to inform our strategic goals.