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Susan Manejias Parke, MD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
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Additional Titles

Medical Director, Community Forensics Services

Contact Info

Psychiatry

300 George St

New Haven, CT 06511-

United States

About

Titles

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Medical Director, Community Forensics Services

Appointments

Education & Training

Child Forensic Psychiatry Fellow
Yale University (2009)
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow
University of New Mexico (2008)
Resident in Psychiatry
University of New Mexico (2006)
MD
University of New Mexico (2003)

Research

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Susan Manejias Parke's published research.

Publications

2023

2020

  • Inpatient Milieu Therapy: Considerations for Adolescent and Transitional Age Youth
    Millard H, Parke S, Wilson C, Qayyum Z, Kim HJ, Van Deusen T. Inpatient Milieu Therapy: Considerations for Adolescent and Transitional Age Youth, Adolesc Psychiatry (2020)10:7. https://doi.org/10.2174/2210676609666190617150025
    Books
  • Metabolic syndrome in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
    Kim HJ, Millard H, Parke S, Van Deusen T, Wilson C, Qayyum Z. Metabolic syndrome in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, CME Article, Psychiatr Ann, 2020;50(8):
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2018

  • Violence Risk Assessments and Management
    Parke S, Baranoski M, Buchanan A, Norko MA, Violence Risk Assessments and Management, CME Article, Psychiatr Ann, 2018;48(2):109-114
    Books
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Insanity Defense
    Westphal A, Parke S. Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Insanity Defense. American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Newsletter, January 2018, page 13
    Peer-Reviewed Case Reports and Technical Notes
  • Transitional Age Youth with Serious Mental Illness: High Acuity Patients Requiring Developmentally Informed Care in the Inpatient Hospital Setting
    Van Deusen T, Wilson C, Kim HJ, Qayyum Z, Millard H, Parke S. Transitional Age Youth with Serious Mental Illness: High Acuity Patients Requiring Developmentally Informed Care in the Inpatient Hospital Setting, Adolesc Psychiatry, 2018;8(3):231-240
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2016

Clinical Care

Overview

Susan Parke, MD, is a psychiatrist and medical director of Community Forensics Services at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) in New Haven. CMHC is a collaboration between Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and the Connecticut Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services.

Dr. Parke, a child, adult and forensic psychiatrist, says she decided to pursue a career in psychiatry after working as a high school counselor. “I thought that the students I was meeting with were struggling emotionally with issues that were being impacted by physiological processes,” she says. “I felt like I didn’t know enough about the body and wanted to learn more.”

Dr. Parke says she was particularly drawn to helping people who have experienced trauma. “I’m interested in how environment might affect people, which got me interested in children and adolescents. And then I started to be interested in forensics and people’s rights, including their right to treatment and to refuse it,” she says.

The CMHC Community Forensic Services team works with legally involved clients, including those who have been incarcerated and are returning to the community and those who have been found guilty of a crime due to insanity, as well as clients are in a residential jail diversion program and those who may need more intensive and comprehensive wrap-around services and reside at a forensic residential program.

Dr. Parke says her favorite part of her job is building relationships with patients and learning their history. “I enjoy learning how they became who they are, who they would like to be, and figuring out how to assist them in doing that,” she says. “We don’t always have the solution for patients struggles but, in some small measure, can be on the journey with them.”

Clinical Specialties

Forensic Psychiatry; Psychiatry; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Get In Touch

Contacts

Mailing Address

Psychiatry

300 George St

New Haven, CT 06511-

United States