Child & Adolescent Related Content

Jonathan Scholl, LICSW, came to McLean Hospital in 2016 after working with adolescents and adults in outpatient and residential treatment since 2012. He has trained extensively in family therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and motivational interviewing. Mr. Scholl’s...

Senna Georges, LICSW, is a clinical social worker and team manager at the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program on McLean’s Belmont campus. She provides individual, family, and group therapy to adolescents in the program, in addition to performing case management tasks. Ms. Georges has...

Jennifer Sheehan, LICSW, has been working at the McLean Southeast Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment (ART) Program since 2004. In addition to her full time position at the ART, she also spent several years working part-time at local hospitals who contracted with McLean Hospital to provide...

Judith Mintz, PhD, is a psychologist and director of clinical services at 3East Residential Programs, a residential treatment program for adolescent girls with emerging traits of borderline personality disorder. A clinician at 3East since the program opened in 2007, Dr. Mintz has developed a...

Julia E. Cohen-Gilbert, PhD, employs cognitive and behavioral measures in conjunction with magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy to investigate the role of brain development in cognitive and emotional regulation during adolescence. She is particularly interested in dynamic...

Since 2000, Ralph J. Buonopane, PhD, has led the McLean-Franciscan Child and Adolescent Inpatient Program at Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton. The program brings together a team of colleagues from the two hospitals to meet the needs of youth in severe psychiatric crisis. Long recognized...

Thrassos S. Calligas, MD, specializes in working with a multidisciplinary team in inpatient psychiatry and is particularly interested in children with complex psychiatric and psychosocial presentations and co-occurring diagnoses. Dr. Calligas is actively involved in teaching medical students and...

Bryan Pridgen, MD, is the medical director of the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program at McLean Hospital and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Dr. Pridgen also supervises and teaches residents in the Massachusetts General...

Ethan Solomon, MEd, has worked as a teacher and special education administrator at various schools on the campus of McLean Hospital for over 10 years. Mr. Solomon is currently co-director of the Arlington School, a therapeutic day school for students with social, emotional and academic challenges...

Mona Potter, MD, is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist. She has played multiple roles over the course of her time at McLean. During her previous role as the medical director of McLean’s Child and Adolescent Outpatient Services, Dr. Potter was integral in building the McLean Anxiety...

Peggy Worden, PsyD, is a senior child and adolescent psychologist with 25 years of experience treating adolescents, children, and families. From 2000 to 2009, Dr. Worden was the clinical director of the Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment Program’s Dual Diagnosis Unit. In 2009, she partnered with...

Gillian C. Galen, PsyD, is a senior child and adolescent psychologist specializing in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). She is the director of training for the 3East continuum, an array of programs for teens that use DBT to target self-endangering behaviors and symptoms of borderline personality...

Zachary B. Millman, PhD, is the director of research for the Support, Treatment, and Resilience (STAR) Program at McLean Hospital. He is also an assistant psychologist at McLean and an assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. At STAR, Dr. Millman...

Wendy P. Bamatter, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for adolescents and young adults. In addition to working with individuals struggling with pervasive emotion dysregulation and high-risk behaviors, Dr. Bamatter is also committed to...

Leyla Erguder, PhD, is a clinical psychologist at the McLean SouthEast Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment (ART) Program and adolescent partial hospital program. She is broadly interested in trauma and resiliency from a functional contextual perspective and specializes in working with children...

Caroline C. Kaufman, PhD, is a post-doctoral fellow in the Spirituality and Mental Health Program at McLean Hospital and an instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology, with child and adolescent psychology focus...

Alessandro S. De Nadai, PhD, is a translational data scientist who focuses on improving pediatric mental health outcomes. He and his team take new findings in computer science, mathematics, and statistics and translate them into clinically actionable information. He has applied new developments in...

Yajie Yu, MD, is an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He currently works as a staff psychiatrist at the McLean SouthEast Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment Program. Dr. Yu’s academic interests are in ADHD and problematic interactive media usage (PIMU).

Anne Hannan, LICSW, is the program director of the McLean-Franciscan Child Community-Based Acute Treatment (CBAT) Program. She has been interested in working with children and adolescents since the beginning of her training. Her clinical interests include trauma, mood disorders, and family therapy...

Tessa Hamilton, PhD, NCSP, is a licensed clinical psychologist, with specialization in child and adolescent clinical care. She has worked with individuals ranging in age from early childhood through late adulthood who bear diverse identities in all respects. Her clinical work has included pediatric...