Anxiety & Mood Disorders Program

The Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program conducts cutting edge research to advance understanding of these debilitating problems in children and adolescents. A major focus of the Program’s research is developing and evaluating innovative treatment approaches including those involving parents. The Program’s research relies on multi-informant and multi-method assessments, several of which were developed by Program leaders. Methods include interviews, questionnaires, behavior observations, and brain imaging using electroencephalogram (EEG) as well as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

The Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program provides research and clinical training to psychology and psychiatry trainees. These include trainees at the undergraduate level, postgraduate level, psychology and psychiatry fellows, and post-doctoral fellows. Many of the Program’s trainees have continued on to positions in graduate programs, academia, and clinical settings.

For clinical services, please contact Yale Child Study Center’s Outpatient Clinic at 844-362-9272 or the Center’s recently opened Westport Practice at 203-785-7379.

The Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program is led by Wendy Silverman, PhD, APBB (diplomate in clinical child psychology), Alfred A. Messer Professor of Child Psychiatry and Director of the Yale Child Study Center Program’s Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program and Professor of Psychology. and Eli Lebowitz, PhD, Associate Professor in the Child Study Center and Co-Director of the Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program.

• Children and adolescents ages 6 to 14 years
• Participant compensation up to $600

• Developing a Scale to Assess Suicide Thoughts and Behaviors Among Preteens (2000033255)
• A Multimodal Investigation of Threat Processing and Parenting Among Anxious Youth (2000038453)
• Leveraging Genetics in Anxiety Disorders to Predict Mental Health Outcomes (2000036174)

Anxiety Disorders; Assessment; Attention; Avoidance; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Compulsive Behaviors; Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Depression; Digital Interventions; Ethnicity/Race; Family Accommodation; Fear; Genetics; Human Development; Irritability; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Mental Disorders; Methodology; Mood Disorders; Neurobiology; Neuropsychiatry; Parenting; Parent-Based Interventions; Psychiatry; Psychology; Stress; Suicidality; Technology.