Child & Adolescent Related Content

Gil Noam, EdD, is the director of the Institute for the Study of Resilience in Youth at McLean Hospital and founder and director of PEAR Inc. (Partnerships in Education and Resilience). Dr. Noam has a strong interest in translating research and innovation to support resilience in youth in...

Saori Murakami, MD, is the assistant medical director of the McLean-Franciscan Child and Adolescent Inpatient Program located at Franciscan Hospital for Children. She has been involved with the program since 2008.

Armida R. Fruzzetti, PhD, has trained professionals throughout the United States and in Sweden in the use of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and in DBT with couples, parents, and families. She has provided clinical supervision in DBT and has worked in a variety of clinical settings utilizing DBT...

Leila Guller, PhD, is a therapist at the 3East Residential Programs. Dr. Guller’s clinical work is primarily with young people struggling with borderline personality disorder and risky behaviors. Her research background is in adolescent addictive behaviors. Dr. Guller completed her graduate training...

Jennie M. Kuckertz, PhD, is a research psychologist at the OCD Institute and is a recent recipient of the Corneel Young Investigator Award at McLean Hospital. Her research interests are in mechanisms of treatment for OCD and anxiety disorders, including traditional interventions such as exposure and...

Michelle Silverman, PhD, is a staff psychologist at the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP), an intensive outpatient program for youth with primary anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and related disorders. She specializes in providing evidence-based treatment—including cognitive...

Karmen Koesterer, PsyD, obtained her undergraduate degree in special education from Grand Valley State University. She worked as a special educator before earning her master’s degree from Harvard University. She then worked in the field of autism research for several years. As a doctoral student in...

Adriana Claudio-Hernández, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in the 3East Residential Programs, where she specializes in the treatment of adolescents and young adults with emerging traits of borderline personality disorder, emotional dysregulation, and injurious/suicidal behaviors. Dr. Claudio...

Mills Smith-Millman, PhD, is a staff psychologist with the McLean School Consultation Service, which trains educators and school mental health staff around Massachusetts in the use of scientifically proven mental health interventions. Dr. Smith-Millman specializes in improving the delivery of mental...

Daniel P. Dickstein, MD, FAAP, is a physician-scientist uniquely trained and board-certified in pediatrics, adult psychiatry, and child/adolescent psychiatry. His research lab, the PediMIND Program at McLean Hospital, is focused on identifying the brain and behavior basis behind mental health...

Sandra Nasabzadeh, LICSW, has worked in the field of social work for ten years in Massachusetts, Washington DC, and Maryland. She began her career providing in-home family therapy and mentoring to families across the south shore of Massachusetts. As part of her graduate program, she completed...

Suzanne E. Bloore, MD, is a board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. Dr. Bloore has expertise in the treatment of emotion dysregulation, mood disorders, and psychotic disorders. She also teaches psychiatry residents and medical students. Dr. Bloore focuses on a developmental...

Kristen Ross, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist at the 3East Residential Programs and an instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She has completed doctoral-level training in a variety of settings, including community mental health, college counseling...

Meghan H. Bowsher, LICSW, worked as a clinical team manager at the Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment (ART) Program at McLean Hospital since 2016. She is now clinical team manager for the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program. Ms. Bowsher provides individual, family, and group therapy to...

David Shalit, LICSW, has been a clinical therapist/case manager at McLean SouthEast’s Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment Program since 2015. Mr. Shalit earned his MSW in 2008 and has been credentialed as an LICSW since 2011. He has dedicated his professional career to the human services field...

Erin Clement, LICSW, attended Merrimack College where she received a BA in Psychology in 2003. She began working at McLean Hospital in 2003 as a community residential counselor at the Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment (ART) Program. In 2005, Ms. Clement began working as a clinical educator in...

Kristen Lancaster, RN, began her career as a mental health specialist in 1995 and then became a registered nurse in 1997 at the Taunton Adolescent Family Treatment Program / Taunton State Hospital. In 2000, she became the assistant director of Nursing and in 2001, the director of Nursing, where she...

Elizabeth Tomlinson, MD, is an outpatient child psychiatrist with 30 years experience in community mental health. She is presently working in the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program, the School Consultation Program, and doing evaluations in the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic for pediatricians and...

Patricia J. Allen, PhD, is the senior manager of research and evaluation at Institute for the Study of Resilience in Youth at McLean Hospital and an instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Allen received a doctoral degree in Nutritional Neuroscience...

Caitlin White, MSW, LICSW, received her MSW from Boston College with a concentration in children, youth, and families. She has been working at McLean Hospital for over 12 years, previously working as a community residence counselor and clinical educator before earning her MSW. From 2014 to 2018, Ms...