2023-2024 Recordings

Join the YCSC Grand Rounds committee in the courtyard at 230 South Frontage Road (with the Cohen Auditorium as the rain location) to mark the end of the department's Grand Rounds season with an Annual Juneteenth Celebration.

This year's event will include a book sale curated by Delores Williams from Bingham’s Books and Culture as well as the return of special guest Kenneth Joseph of St. Luke's Steel Band, who last visited to provide a talk and performance at the February session focused on Black History Month. YSM Deputy Dean and Chief Diversity Officer Darin Latimore will also join and provide a few remarks.

Established in 2022 by Dr. Krystal Finch, Belinda Oliver, Dr. Camille Cooper, Stacey Cannon and Tara Davila, this event has won the hearts of YCSC community members. Feel free to bring a folding chair to sit and connect with colleagues while listening to music and enjoying some culturally influenced treats.

Note: Due to technical difficulties and the widespread network issues across campus this week, this session was unfortunately interrupted and ended rather abruptly. As a result, the session has been rescheduled for December 3, 2024. View the YCSC Grand Rounds web calendar for details.

Session Description

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals experience among the highest rates of depression, anxiety, substance use problems, and suicidality of any population risk group. Methodologically innovative and rigorous research now shows that this disparity is almost certainly caused by the multiple forms of stigma that SGM individuals experience across the lifespan. This presentation will review theoretical and empirical advances in psychiatric epidemiology and developmental psychopathology that identify the mechanisms through which stigma compromises SGM people’s mental health that can also serve as promising treatment targets for identity-affirming psychotherapies. The presentation will then discuss the development, application, and efficacy of the first identity-affirmative mental health intervention for SGM individuals to be tested in randomized controlled trials. The talk will conclude by examining promising studies into the implementation of this treatment within SGM-serving settings locally, nationally, and globally with the goal of reducing the barriers to identity-affirming evidence-based treatment that this population has long faced.

The learning objectives for this talk are to:

1. Evaluate the epidemiology of the sexual and gender minority (SGM) population’s mental health in the US by listing the mental and behavioral health problems that disproportionately affect SGM individuals.
2. Assess the major determinants of SGM mental health in the US by defining structural and interpersonal stigma and providing two examples of each.
3. Analyze five behavioral treatment principles and techniques underlying LGBTQ-affirmative evidence-based practice.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Part of the Viola W. Bernard Fund for Innovation in Mental Health Care, the annual Viola Bernard Lecture Series addresses social justice and health care equity topics, named in honor of Viola Bernard, MD.

Session Description

This fully virtual session will focus on the following key areas:

• Understanding the Importance of Sleep in Early Childhood Development: Providers will gain insights into the fundamental role of sleep in supporting brain development, emotional regulation, and overall physical growth. The presentation will highlight the long-term implications of sleep deficits and the benefits of promoting healthy sleep habits from an early age.
• Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Healthy Sleep: Attendees will learn about the social determinants that contribute to sleep disparities, including environmental factors, socioeconomic challenges, and cultural practices. The session will explore strategies to mitigate these barriers through community engagement, parental education, and tailored interventions.
• Implementing the "Sleep Well, Bee Well" Intervention: The presentation will provide a practical guide to implementing this evidence-based intervention in clinical and community settings. Emphasis will be placed on fostering strong parent-child relationships through consistent bedtime routines and active parental involvement.

The learning objectives for this session will be to:

• Understand the importance of sleep in early childhood development
• Identify barriers to healthy sleep in historically marginalized populations
• Describe the potential of sleep health promotion interventions in clinical and community settings to improve sleep outcomes and strengthen parent-child relationships

This will be a fully virtual session, held via Zoom. Contact Una Casey for the Zoom registration link.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

There has never been more urgency to support the academic, social, and emotional health of children and adolescents in the United States (US). Despite the robust research evidence for universal prevention science practices and multi tiered systems of support, the discourse of the science of learning and development is situated within the politics and power of the US education system, wherein significant disparities in student experiences of social and emotional learning and their academic, social, and emotional outcomes persist.

Further, an increasingly polarized socio-political climate is diminishing the public's confidence in science and in some cases, producing misinformation that contributes to exclusionary and inequitable educational experiences or policies for some students, schools, and families. Improving the conditions for student learning and thriving in the US requires immediate, intentional, and preventative action that advances equity for with and through the science of learning and development. The learning objectives for this session are for participants be able to:

1. Articulate operational definitions of equity, inclusion, and marginalization in the context of prevention science research and practices.
   
2. Explain the intersection of politics and the science of learning and development.
3. Identify critical opportunities and corresponding strategies for advancing equity for, with, and through the science of learning and development.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

The Heritage and Legacy Project is structured around the creation of "Heritage and Legacy," a 6 × 4 ft oil painting of 15 trainees (8 women, 7 men) from the Yale Child Study Center, painted between February 2020 and December 2022. Each studio sitting lasted approximately four hours and included an in-depth interview that was recorded and transcribed for qualitative analysis. Narrative inquiry was used as am analytic approach, a method that attends to unique stories and aims to make meaning out of individuals' life experiences. Individuals included in the painting represented different professional disciplines including child psychiatry, psychology, and social work.

The learning objectives for this session involve:

1. The unique methodology of using a collective oil portrait as the basis for a qualitative study using narrative inquiry
2. The impact of "before me" (Heritage) and "after me" (Legacy) on child mental health trainees
3. Advancements at the intersection of visual arts and psychiatry

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Established in memoriam to explore the interface between the arts and child/adolescent mental health, the multidisciplinary Max Ritvo ‘13 and Alan B. Slifka ‘51 Program for the Medical Humanities aims to improve the clinical experience of those affected by illness and strengthen the ability of providers to deliver compassionate care. It includes guest speaker and visiting scholar components, as well as culminating special lectures each spring.

Jointly sponsored by the Yale Child Study Center and the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, the 2024 Ritvo Lecture will be offered in a hybrid format, held in person in the Cohen Auditorium and available via Zoom.

Description & Learning Objectives

People with psychosis experience loneliness at higher rates than the general population and identify loneliness as one of the most significant barriers to personal recovery. While many researchers have called for psychosocial treatments to specifically target loneliness for people experiencing psychosis, there are limited treatment models that provide direct recommendations for therapists working with people with psychosis.

In this talk, the concept of loneliness will be explored through a review of psychological and philosophical literature and through first-person accounts of psychosis. Additionally, the correlation between specific psychotic symptoms and loneliness will be reviewed. Following this, four key practice elements will be outlined, including addressing barriers to accessing the patient’s longing for connection, the loneliness of psychotic experiences, internalized stigma, and loneliness within the therapeutic relationship, that can serve to engage and reduce loneliness through psychotherapy.

Schedule

10:30-12:30 Presentation in the Cohen Auditorium and via Zoom
2:30-1:30 Lunch provided for those in-person
1:30-3:30 Case Discussion in-person only in the Cohen Auditorium

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

Endowed by the first director of training in child psychiatry at Yale, Samuel Ritvo, MD and his wife Lucille Ritvo in 2007, the annual Ritvo Lecture focuses on bringing modern psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thought to child and adolescent mental health practice, with a particular focus on its trainees.

Session Description

Acting as one continuously is not always the optimal state, due to an intrinsic tension between individualistic and synergistic forms of action that exist in many social situations. A novel theory of flexible multimodal synchrony highlights context as a key component that defines “pulls” toward connection and “pulls” toward segregation inherent to the social situation. Trait-like individual differences and relationship variables modulate the effects of these contextual motivations. Context, individual differences, and relationship variables provide the backdrop to the emergence of flexible and dynamical synchrony patterns, in several modalities– behavioral, physiological, and neural. There are several types of consequences of multimodal synchrony patterns: Self-oriented, social-oriented and goal-oriented outcomes.

In this talk, the speaker will provide several empirical proofs-of-concept of the theory and provide guidelines and ideas for future synchrony research. The next frontier in interpersonal synchrony research - studying human groups - will also be presented. The learning objectives for this session are to:

1. Learn of recent advances and gaps in biobehavioral synchrony research
2. Understand the principles of the flexible multimodal synchronization theory
3. Explore a new frontier in synchrony research: the human group context

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

Although it was long assumed that all cells in the brain had identical genomes, it has more recently been shown that each neuronal genome has hundreds of somatic mutations at birth, and more than a thousand by late in life, with point mutations accumulating remarkably linearly with age. Damaging somatic mutations that are shared by multiple cells in the brain contribute to risk of pediatric and adult epilepsy, autism spectrum disorder, and schizophrenia. The learning objectives for this session are to understand:

1. The concept of somatic mutation
2. Somatic mutation contribution to risk of autism spectrum disorder
3. That genomes are constantly changing

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. This session also meets the requirement for cultural competence. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

Over the last several years, there has been ongoing and increased societal attention on topics like emotional wellness and mental health, the impacts of culture, and the challenges of social justice. Learn how to effectively communicate with and engage the public on topics at the intersection of neuroscience, mental health, faith, culture and social justice.

By the end of the talk, audience members will understand:

1. The tools and best practices for becoming a public intellectual, engaging general audiences on academic topics of public interest and relevance.
2. How principles of service leadership inform work that spans from the academy to the public domain.
3. How conversation at the intersection of brain science, mental health, culture and social justice can improve mental health awareness, approaches, and access to services.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. This session also meets the requirement for cultural competence. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

Nearly 20% of children and youth ages 3-17 in the United States have a mental, emotional, developmental, or behavioral disorder. Mental health challenges are a leading cause of death and disability in this age group, with suicide as the second leading cause of death. Mental health disorders have been steadily increasing over the past decade and these trends were only exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these children and adolescents will not be able to access specialized mental health care.

Pediatricians, as trusted caregivers, are in an optimal setting to identify children and teens with mental health concerns through annual exams, screening, and parents voicing concerns. The ACCESS-Mental Health Connecticut program provides pediatric primary care physicians with 9:00-5:00 weekday access to a child and adolescent psychiatrist and mental health professionals to assist with connecting families to mental health care, education, consultations and one-time psychiatric evaluations of their patients to determine appropriate treatment. This has been a fruitful collaboration. Many families have accessed appropriate therapies and pediatricians have grown more confident in basic mental health assessments and treatment. However, not all cases go smoothly. Frustration and compassion fatigue are inherent when connections to care are thwarted. Team support, case review and self-compassion maintain motivation for this important work.

The learning objectives for this session are to:

1. Discuss the benefits of collaboration between pediatricians and child and adolescent psychiatric professionals in conceptualizing and meeting the needs of children.
2. Review the model of ACCESS-Mental Health in engaging children, youth and families in mental health treatment.
3. Acknowledge the frustration and compassion fatigue involved when a family does not follow through with treatment recommendations and engagement.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom, but this session will not be recorded.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. This session also meets the requirement for cultural competence. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

This presentation will review symptomatic aspects of pediatric anxiety disorders and research on novel therapies, particularly those that are arising through research on attention. This provides novel insights for computer-based attention retraining therapies. Finally, during the discussion period, discussion will be entertained and encouraged on the approach to particularly difficult clinical problems, providing clinicians with guidance in these scenarios. This will include treatment-resistant anxiety, anxiety in very young children, and anxiety in highly co-morbid cases. The learning objectives for this session are to understand:

1. The types of data that inform translational neuroscience research
2. How attention relates to anxiety
3. How cognitive control changes with development

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

Focused on early childhood, social determinants of health, and race, the learning objectives for this session are to:

1. Highlight criticality of early neurodevelopment
2. Understand the importance of early experiences of race, racism, & discrimination
3. Discuss COVID-19 disproportionality

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. This session also meets the requirement for cultural competence. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

Asian Americans experienced a rise in anti-Asian Racism coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic. In this lecture, attendees will learn about the history of anti-Asian Racism in the US over the past two centuries. In addition, we'll take a deep dive into the racism that Asian American medical students experience in the medical training environment along with strategies to help address them. The learning objectives for this session are to:

1. Understand the history of Asian American experiences with racism in United States and in the medical training environment
2. Recognize the invisibility of Asian American medical students in healthcare
3. Describe strategies to counteract the racism that Asian Americans experience as medical students

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. This session also meets the requirement for cultural competence. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

This lecture will address how basic research on normative behavioral and neural development establishes a baseline from which assessments and potential treatment interventions can be designed to deal with atypical populations. The learning objectives for this session are to understand:

• Classic behavioral methods for studying human infants
• Knowledge about core findings about language learning and development in human infants
• The latest techniques used to study neural mechanisms in infants and children

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

Dr. Anna Reisman grew up with a nonverbal intellectually disabled sister with tuberous sclerosis and autism. Incorporating both personal history and archival material, she will share an account of her sister’s childhood, including her family’s efforts to make her sister “normal”, as well as the origin story of tuberous sclerosis. She will also show the power of words (such as “brain-damaged”) and images (such as x-rays and drawings) to shape our understanding of a condition or disease, and how her own perspective evolved over time.

The learning objectives for this session are to:

• Appreciate how a personal narrative deepens the understanding of a disease’s impact on a sibling and family.
• Grasp how historical context can broaden the contemporary understanding of a disease, using tuberous sclerosis as an example.
• Describe how the medical humanities can provide an approach to exploring a topic through multiple prisms, including archival photographs, paintings, and historical medical journals.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

This is the third session in a new quarterly leadership-focused lecture series, Exploring and Enhancing Leadership in the Academy, with the goal of providing an open forum with leaders at the Yale School of Medicine and beyond who are committed to principles of collaboration and service.

Gaylord Specialty Healthcare President and CEO Sonja LaBarbera will highlight service leadership principles in action at Gaylord Healthcare, while also introducing the audience to Gaylord's mission and practices. The learning objectives for this session are to:

1. Understand Gaylord Hospital’s mission and how it fits into the CT healthcare continuum
2. Identify post pandemic healthcare leadership challenges
3. Learn tools/strategies to engage, inspire, retain staff
4. Learn basic principles of servant leadership - putting people first!

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

This special Grand Rounds session will kick off the department's annual Black History Month Celebration, which will center the national theme of honoring the influence of Black artists. Please join Ayo Ayobello, Christian Edwards, Tangular Irby, Amy Myers and special guest, Kenneth Joseph of St. Luke's Steel Band for a celebration of the impact of art and Black artists in their lives and careers. This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom. The celebration will be followed by a reception for those attending in-person, with snacks and raffles that center Black owned businesses and artists.

Session Description

Due to the forecasted inclement weather and related travel complications, this session will be virtual only.

The learning objectives for this session are to appreciate the interactions between the brain and immune system during development, understand early development as a critical period underlying microglial cell development and function, and describe the impact of maternal diet on later-life behaviors of offspring.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

For over a decade, the Child Study Center has provided an evidence-based program for parents with substance use disorders who are parenting a young child. The goal of the Family-Based Recovery Program (FBR) is to ensure that children develop optimally in substance-free, safe, and stable homes with their parent/s. The FBR model of treatment integrates attachment-based parent-child therapeutic approaches, motivational interviewing, principles from infant mental health, components of developmental guidance and reflective functioning, with trauma informed psychotherapy and case management services.

This Compassionate Care Rounds provides a case example of the FBR multidisciplinary approach to care, which emphasizes empathic engagement with parents who struggle with substance use disorders, co-morbid mental health conditions, and a trauma history. Learning objectives for this session are to:

• Understand the unique treatment components provided through a novel home-based child mental health program for children who have a parent with substance use disorder.
• Understand the challenges of providing coordinated care for parents who struggle with comorbid substance use and psychiatric conditions.
• Learn about the importance of providers adopting an empathic recovery-resilience-trauma-informed lens in caring for parent-child dyads in which parents have struggled with substance use.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom. This session will not be recorded.

This presentation will focus on how our understanding of the impact of trauma on the mind and body can lay the foundation for effective approaches to treating impacted children and families. Two evidence-based trauma-focused treatments will be described and case presentation will illustrate clinical concepts and strategies that support recovery, including the incorporation of culturally responsive approaches to treatment.

The learning objectives for this session are to:

1. Use knowledge about the impact of traumatic experience as a basis for determining the most effective treatments
2. Identify strategies to help children and caregivers regain a sense of control through structured approaches to trauma-focused assessment and treatment
3. Learn about effective clinical strategies and treatment through a case presentation

This will be a fully virtual session, held via Zoom. The recording of this session will not be posted on-line.

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

The Brennand Lab's research combines expertise in human stem cell models, genomic engineering, and neuroscience to identify the mechanisms that underlie brain development, traits, and disease. Understanding the basic biology governing the complex interplay between genetic variants and the environment will springboard the development of novel, personalized approaches to improve health and prevent disease. The learning objectives for this session are for participants to understand:

1. How somatic cells can be reprogrammed to human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) and subsequently differentiation to neurons and glia, to yield disease-risk in a dish models that recapitulate molecular and cellular phenotypes associated with brain disorders. The audience should take home appreciation of the strengths and drawbacks of applying stem-cell based disease modelling to brain disorders.
2. That brain disorders are genetically complex, with genetic studies frequently identifying hundreds of risk variants, although target genes, pathways, and cell types frequently remain unclear. Knowledge of how the integration of stem cell-models with CRISPR-based engineering can facilitate isogenic comparisons of the impact of risk loci prioritized by genetic studies.
3. The basic biology governing the complex interplay between genetic variants and the environment will springboard the development of novel, personalized approaches to improve health and prevent disease.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

Description & Learning Objectives

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were faced with an urgent health communications challenge: how do we spread critical health messages globally in ways that overcome language, literacy, and cultural barriers to accessing them? We began designing and testing rapidly scalable, short animated storytelling (SAS) videos optimized to scale rapidly via social media. Using this approach, we reached millions of people all over the world and our videos were reposted by media channels, academic institutions and public health agencies including the WHO and UNICEF. Today, our global health media innovation lab continues to develop and test “health entertainment” as a means of rapidly scaling health messages on a variety of preventive health topics. Leaning on the power of stories to engage people, we work on the assumption that the best way to change someone’s mind about their health, is to touch their heart first. The learning objectives for this session are for participants to:

1. Consider the challenges of creating rapidly scalable global health communication interventions.
2. Recognize ways in which we can design health communication media to effectively reach and engage diverse populations.
3. Discover some strategies for rigorously measuring the effect of rapidly scalable, global health communication interventions.

Continuing Education

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information and instructions for earning CEUs will be provided at the live event.

The 2023-2024 Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Join YCSC Chair Linda Mayes, MD for this traditional "State of the Department" session to begin the new calendar year and spring semester. This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

This is the second in a new quarterly leadership-focused lecture series, Exploring and Enhancing Leadership in the Academy, with the goal of providing an open forum with leaders at the Yale School of Medicine and beyond who are committed to principles of collaboration and service.

This talk will focus on ways to leverage strengths, purpose, courage, and strong interpersonal connection for optimal leadership within academic medicine. Several leadership development programs recently created for YSM faculty and trainees will also be described. The learning objectives for this session are for participants deepen an understanding of:

1. The importance of enhancing relationships and promoting task completion for leading optimally
2. How strengths, values, courage, and strong interpersonal connection can be leveraged to meet leadership challenges within academic medicine
3. Several leadership development programs currently underway for YSM faculty and trainees

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

The Exploring and Enhancing Leadership in the Academy lecture series has been promoted throughout the YCSC, at 230 South Frontage Road and 350 George Street, through leadership-themed posters designed by Skyler Rapacioli, an undergraduate graphic design student CT State College.

Jointly sponsored by the Yale Child Study Center and the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, the 2023 Ritvo Lecture will be conducted via Zoom on Saturday, December 9, 2023 from 12-2 p.m. ET.

Description & Learning Objectives

The presenter will address how, for some young people who identify as transgender, the anticipation and/or the actual process of transitioning represents a movement away from something in themselves that feels wrong, painful, or traumatic and that has not yet been consciously recognized as such. This becomes a ‘missing’ part of the self’s experience, locked into the body. The use of photographs during psychoanalytic psychotherapy with young people who have commenced social transitioning will be described, with a goal of working through visual representations of the natal body in the service of facilitating the working through - in its psychoanalytic sense - of the natal body’s unconscious narrative. Deploying this visual mode may be especially helpful in engaging young people on the autistic spectrum who currently comprise a significant minority of transgender young people. The learning objectives for this session are to:

• Examine the ramifications of the inescapable fact of our embodied nature
• Describe the common experience of 'missing' parts of the self for some transgender youth
• Utilize photographs as a clinical technique to identify and mourn the natal body during gender transitioning.

Continuing Education

This program has been approved for two Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided during the session.

Endowed by the first director of training in child psychiatry at Yale, Samuel Ritvo, MD and his wife Lucille Ritvo in 2007, the annual Ritvo Lecture focuses on bringing modern psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thought to child and adolescent mental health practice, with a particular focus on its trainees.

A case will be presented that provides an incredible opportunity for to recognize the racism faced by patients of color, especially Black children and families. It allows the use of this experience as a teaching moment for providers and clinicians at Yale Child Study Center, demonstrating how we can challenge the status quo in mental healthcare and advocate for, empower, and support Black families.

By bringing these issues to the forefront of our discussions, we are better positioned to take proactive steps in eradicating this inequity at the YCSC. As Cheryl L. Beamon, Associate Commissioner NYC Administration for Children's Services stated at the AACAP town meeting on 10/26/2023: "Support, not report." She stressed the need for mental health clinicians and providers to exercise careful judgment in determining when to offer SUPPORT to a family and when to make a REPORT to Child Protective Services.

The learning objectives for this session are to:

1. Grasp the Historical Context: Learn about America's history of separating Black children from their parents, and how this history still negatively impacts Black children and families today.
2. Support and Empower Black Families: Recognize the importance of supporting Black families facing challenges. Understand the need to exercise careful judgment before making new reports to the Department of Children and Families.
3. Build Respectful Partnerships: Explore practical ways to establish partnerships with Black children and families, for example, by empowering and collaborating with families and considering using clear, objective measures for success. Make space for hesitancy in engagement in care and medication management.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom. Additional details TBA.

Communication challenges remain one of the earliest concerns of parents whose children eventually receive an autism diagnosis. Many existing measures in autism only characterize communication differences but are not designed to monitor improvement over time or support clinical decision making. This presentation will describe a new tool, the Early Communication Indicator for Autism (ECI-A), which is based on an existing norm-referenced, validated measure and can be easily used within clinical practice. The objectives of this presentation are to:

1. Describe how early communication skills in autism can be used to support early identification and diagnosis.
2. Describe a brief, play-based assessment designed to measure early communication skills of children with or at high likelihood of receiving an autism diagnosis.
3. Compare the early communication skills of autistic children to their non-autistic peers.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Description & Learning Objectives

A safe, nurturing, and responsive caregiving environment during the first 1000 days of a child’s life is critical in setting a strong foundation for lifelong growth and development. Prolonged hospital stays during these early years can have a profound impact on child outcomes including neurodevelopment, emotion regulation, and relational health. Unfortunately, the intersection of pediatric psychology and infant/early childhood mental health has largely been overlooked, with little attention placed on the child-parent dyad in the medical setting. Nevertheless, it is imperative that mental health professionals working in inpatient and outpatient settings are equipped to assess, recognize, and respond to the effects of prolonged inpatient medical intervention on children and caregivers to promote relational health and family resilience. The learning objectives for this session are to:

1. Describe the unique needs of children and families facing early and prolonged inpatient medical intervention.
2. Recognize the clinical utility in dyadic and relational-focused interventions in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
3. Identify ways to integrate this relational, trauma-informed framework into current clinical practice, research, and education.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

The issue of health disparities is well known and documented in our health systems and disparities in Suicide are no exception. These rates have increased significantly for those of historically marginalized identities. In 2021, the CDC reported that suicide is the first leading cause of death for Asian Americans ages 15-24 and the second leading cause of death for Latine youth. The rates for Black youth are increasing faster than any other racial/ethnic group and have been for over 20 years.

Research indicates that suicide is preventable through a comprehensive public health approach that includes implementation and evaluation of multiple tailored prevention strategies. Amanda Calhoun, MD, MPH; Anamaria Orozco, LCSW; and Eunice Yuen, MD, PhD will share their expertise and experience providing racially and culturally responsive assessment and prevention with AAPI, Black/African American, and Latine Youth.

The learning objectives for this session are for participants to:

1. Better understand the factors that have contributed to the increase in suicide rates for AAPI, Black/African American, and Latine youth
2. Learn specific culturally/racially informed assessment and treatment considerations for each group
3. Learn culturally and racially informed strategies to rebuild trust to engage caregivers who likely have experienced racism and discrimination in their own healthcare journey

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Description

Findings will be presented from a series of studies looking at different aspects of higher level control and their link to mechanisms of resilience in developmental and adult samples. First, a large randomized-controlled trial seeking to improve cognitive control or response speed in 265 typically developing children and looking at a host of behavioral and neural outcome measures will be discussed. Second, several experiments on the role of our subjective sense of control or agency and its link to stress and mental health will be addressed.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Description

It can be challenging on multiple levels to experience the death of a patient by suicide. This presentation will address the multi-factorial risks for suicide as well as postvention actions that can be utilized by both affected clinicians and organizations following a patient suicide. Establishing a culture of acknowledgement and addressing the loss in a timely and proactive manner is essential to ensure affected practitioners and family members feel supported and individual and organizational risk is minimized. Learning objectives for this session are to:

• Demonstrate understanding of a scientifically informed view of the multi-factorial risks for suicide
• Identify individual strategies that can be utilized to support clinicians' experiences following a patient suicide
• Determine organizational strategies that optimize postvention response following a patient suicide.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

This virtual session will be the first in a new quarterly leadership-focused lecture series, Exploring and Enhancing Leadership in the Academy, coordinated by YCSC Assistant Professor Daryn H. David, PhD in collaboration with YCSC Chair Linda Mayes, MD and the department's Grand Rounds committee.

The inaugural speaker will be Pamela Sutton-Wallace, MPH, who serves as executive vice president and chief operating officer for the Yale-New Haven Health System. Additional details will be shared when available.

The new series will provide an open forum with leaders at the Yale School of Medicine and beyond who are committed to principles of collaboration and service. These talks will be further promoted throughout the YCSC, at 230 South Frontage Road and 350 George Street, through leadership-themed posters designed by Skyler Rapacioli, an undergraduate graphic design student.

Learning objectives for this new series are to:

• Introduce foundational principles of service leadership, generativity, and coaching for effectiveness within the academy and health care
• Highlight the service-oriented practices of prominent leaders within YSM, the Yale-New Haven Health System, Yale Medicine, and external institutions
• Invite audience members to reflect on their own leadership practices, with an eye toward how service leadership principles could enhance their efforts

While institutional wellness programs have been implemented in health professions education for many years, there have been numerous challenges in implementation. One of the challenges to existing wellness programs relates to how stigma against help-seeking limits prevention and early identification of distress. When experiencing the warning signs of psychological distress, individuals often do not seek support due to self-stigma which relates to fears of retribution, or appearing vulnerable or weak to others. Common approaches to stigma reduction, however, typically involve increasing knowledge to challenge biases and stereotypes which has not led to sustained or meaningful change. Emerging research on implicit and structural forms of stigma may provide unique insights that transform how we address stigma into the future. The learning objectives for this session are to:

1. Discuss the concepts of implicit and structural stigma and their relevance to healthcare
2. Describe a model for stigma recognition and management that has been empirically derived through research
3. Explore ways to co-create systemic change to address stigma and improve wellbeing

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Senn Conference Room and simulcast via Zoom.

Speaker's social media handles:

@javeedsukhera

@drsukhera

This opportunity to gather together and celebrate academic progression among YCSC faculty and staff will be in-person only, in the Senn Conference Room at 230 South Frontage Road. The courtyard may also be available, weather permitting. Refreshments will be served, and opening remarks will be provided by Linda Mayes and Tara Davila. Those being recognized for recent promotion or progression (as finalized and approved in fiscal year '23 and to date in FY24, i.e., 7/1/22-9/30/23) are as follows. Congratulations to all!

• Amanda Altieri, Compliance & Training Coordinator
• Tanya Barnes, Account Assistant 5/Department Liaison
• Heather Bonitz-Moore, Assistant Professor of Child Counseling
• Laurie Cardona-Wolenski, Associate Professor of Child Psychology
• Una Casey, Senior Administrative Assistant
• Laura Ciarleglio, Assistant Professor of Social Work
• Renee Cifarelli, Assistant Professor of Social Work
• Daryn David, Assistant Professor
• Megan De Carvalho, Assistant Professor of Social Work
• Amanda Dettmer, Research Scientist
• Karen Franchi, Training Program Administrator
• Megan Goslin, Associate Professor of Clinical Child Psychology
• Ellen Hoffman, Associate Professor
• Karim Ibrahim, Assistant Professor
• Suzanne Macari, Senior Research Scientist
• Kieran Maiorana, Assistant Professor of Child Counseling
• Katherine Malensek, Assistant Professor of Social Work
• Crista Marchesseault, Director of Communications
• Carla Marin, Assistant Professor
• Heather Maurizio, Assistant Professor of Social Work
• Emily Olfson, Assistant Professor
• Kartik Pattabiraman, Assistant Professor
• Michael Powers, Associate Clinical Professor
• Vladislav Ruchkin, Associate Professor Adjunct
• Gitta Selva, Program Administrator
• Jordan Shamas, Program Administrator
• Carla Stover, Professor
• Denis Sukhodolsky, Professor
• Linda Torv, Program Manager 1
• Nadeeka Treadwell, Assistant Professor of Social Work

Description & Learning Objectives

Health disparities by socioeconomic status (SES) have been extensively documented, but less is known about the health implications of achieving upward mobility. This talk will address the mental health and physical health effects of upward mobility, particularly among youth of color. The conditions under which mobility can come at a cost will be discussed. In addition, psychosocial, behavioral, and physiological pathways from upward mobility to health will be described. The learning objectives for this session are to understand:

1. disparities in health outcomes by race and socioeconomic status
2. psychosocial pathways related to upward mobility
3. health behavior and biological mechanisms explaining health disparities

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education Credit

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Description & Learning Objectives

Understanding heterogeneity within and across diagnostic labels is crucial in neurodevelopmental conditions to guide precision health efforts; help the health care sectors meet the needs of individual children, youth, and families; and understand the stories of lived experience. Canadian multimodal data (structural and functional imaging, phenotypic, and genomic data, and treatment response from clinical trials) from the POND network (https://pond-network.ca/) and others will be addressed, to provide updates on current insights in this area and discuss future directions. Partner perspectives and experience will be integrated in the discussion to help focus the work on what matters to neurodivergent individuals and their families.

The learning objectives for this session are to:

• discuss data that challenges current diagnostic labels
• review intervention data to examine the relationship between biology and core symptom definition for ASD
• link biological understandings from the above objectives to patient priorities

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Join YCSC Chair Linda Mayes, MD for this traditional welcome back session to kick off the 2023-2024 Grand Rounds series. This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.