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Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

For more than 40 years the Duke Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has been committed to providing quality mental health care for youth. Backed by state-of-the-art research programs, Duke has led the way in developing modern and effective treatments for a variety of childhood mental illnesses, including depression, anxiety, ADHD, antisocial conduct, substance abuse and severe trauma. Duke’s child psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers take a collaborative and compassionate, child-and-family centered approach to their work. The result is a broad array of integrated services, carefully designed to achieve the best outcome for each and every patient.

The Duke Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry provides psychiatric, psychological and substance abuse diagnostic and treatment services for children, adolescents and their parents and families.

The Duke Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Program (ADHD Program) provides comprehensive diagnostic evaluations for children, adolescents and adults, including psychoeducational testing for learning disorders. Parent and child behavior management groups and child coping skills groups are available. A summer treatment program for middle school students is available to enhance academic learning strategies, group cooperation and other skills for school success. The Duke ADHD program offers direct in-school consultation to teachers and other educational professionals.

The Duke Program in Child Anxiety and Affective Disorders offers diagnostic evaluations and an array of on-going treatments for children and adolescents, including individual, evidence-based psychological therapies. Medication management is offered through the Duke Pediatric Psychopharmacology Service. Family therapy is also available for adults and their children or adolescents identified with anxiety or mood problems.

The Duke Family Studies Program  provides couples therapy, family therapy for adolescents with a wide variety of problems, parent management training, marital therapy, and general family therapy for enhancing communication and problem solving. A team of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers, expertly trained in family treatment methods, offers an up to date approach and skillful care.

The Duke OCD and Tourette’s Disorder Program provides diagnostic evaluations, medication management, and state-of-the-art psychological therapies for adolescents and adults.

The Duke Pediatric Psychology Program offers psychological and neurocognitive assessments of children and adolescents with medical, developmental and learning disorders. Consultations to physicians, parents and teachers are available to assist children and adolescents in adjusting to and coping with their illness.

The Duke Pediatric Psychopharmacology Service (Medication Management Program) offers diagnostic interviews and on-going continuity-of-care clinics for the treatment of behavioral and emotional disturbances with medication. Expert faculty psychiatrists and resident physicians take an evidence-based approach to the use of medications to ensure the safest and most effective treatment of children and adolescents.

The Duke Preschool Program provides comprehensive diagnostic evaluations of preschool children, ages 3-5, with possible disruptive, mood, anxiety or other early onset emotional or behavioral disorders. In appropriate cases medication management may be available.

The Duke Adolescent Substance Use Treatment Programs
For more information visit:
http://dukehealth1.org/childrens_services/ped_psych.asp

The Durham Community Guidance Clinic (CGC)
For more information visit:
http://dukehealth1.org/childrens_services/ped_psych.asp

Duke Eating Disorders Program
The Duke Eating Disorders Program is a multidisciplinary program which includes specialists from medical psychology, nutrition, psychiatry, social work, pediatrics, family medicine, and endocrinology.  The program specializes in the comprehensive outpatient treatment of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, childhood feeding disorders, and other forms of eating and body image disturbance for individuals from early childhood to late adulthood.  Our treatment model emphasizes empirically validated interventions and includes individual and family psychotherapies, group therapies, parent support interventions, nutritional counseling, and medical and psychopharmacological management.   

Initially, anyone who seeks treatment at the Duke Eating Disorder Program undergoes a thorough evaluation that includes a psychological interview and questionnaires, nutrition assessment, and medical exam. Based on the results of the initial assessment, potential patients are presented with an individualized treatment plan that includes recommendations for services and specific areas of skill development that are likely to be particularly beneficial. Follow-up visits are then scheduled accordingly.  

If you would like additional information about our program, please call (919) 416-2464, or visit http://eatingdisorders.mc.duke.edu/

Duke Eating Disorders Program Faculty

•      Nancy Zucker, Ph.D., Director
 
Division of Medical Psychology

•          Jenny Favret, M.S., R.D., L.D.N.
 
Dietitian

•          Meryl Kanfer, LCSW
 
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

•         Krista Konrad, Ph.D.
 
Division of Medical Psychology

•          Rhonda M. Merwin, Ph.D.
 
Division of Medical Psychology

•          Devdutta Sangvai, M.D., M.B.A.
 
Duke Student Health Services

•          Susan Spratt, M.D.
 
Division of Endocrinology

•          Betty Staples, M.D.

•          Associate Clinical Professor

•          Department of Pediatrics

•         Duke University Medical Center

•          Lisa Story, Ph.D.
 
Division of Medical Psychology

•          Richard S. Surwit, Ph.D.
 
Chief, Division of Medical Psychology

•         Melanie Trost, M.D.
Student Health Services

•         Marla Wald, M.D.
 
Division of Medical Psychology

•          Laura Weisberg, Ph.D., Clinical Director
 
Division of Medical Psychology

 

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Contact
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
919-416-2447

*The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a fee for service
clinic, with the exception of Duke Employee Health Plans.

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Faculty

Lisa Amaya-Jackson, M.D. M.P.H.
Adrian C Angold, M.D.
Allan K. Chrisman, M.D.
Richard E. D'Alli, M.D.
Michael DeBellis, M.D.
Helen Egger, M.D.
Marta Gazzola, M.D.
John G. Looney, M.D. M.B.A.
John S. March, M.D. M.P.H.
Hima Ravi, M.D.

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Research

Healthy Childhood Brain Development Research Program

 

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