Child Study Center News

A national survey of the child care workforce conducted between May and June of this year found that, among 20,013 respondents, 78.2% were fully vaccinated. During that same time period, just 65% of the general adult population had been fully vaccinated.

Eunice Yuen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and in the Child Study Center, speaks about Asian American and Pacific Islander mental health on the American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal Podcast.

This Point-and-Click Game Helps Reduce the Stigma of Addiction

The Yale Global Mental Health Program’s seminar series has received an award from The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund.

A new school year is upon us, and students are returning to the classroom—some for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic was declared in March 2020. How can educators and families navigate an uncertain landscape? To help everyone get off to a great start, the Yale Child Study Center + Scholastic Collaborative have created “Back to School, Back Together,” an online hub with SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) resources, stories of resilience, and expert insights.

From “negritude” to “excited delirium,” racist language and behavior are still very much present in psychiatry – from engrained policies and under-representation in the field, right down to the patient charts.

Medical-legal partnerships provide an opportunity for psychologists to broaden their interdisciplinary collaborations, to more aptly meet the social and legal needs of their patients to assist in reducing inequities among underserved pediatric populations. The systematic incorporation of MLPs into pediatric psychology training may help to increase the utilization of these services moving forward.

Alan Lee, a fourth-year medical student at Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded a 2021-22 Helping Hands Grants Program award through the American Psychiatric Association Foundation and Yale School of Medicine’s program Compassionate Home, Action Together (CHATogether).

As drug-related deaths have spiked across the United States in recent years, doctors seeking to curb that surge are getting an unlikely new tool: a video game. The game, titled “PlaySmart,” was developed by Dr. Lynn Fiellin and funded in part by the National Institutes of Health.