Child & Adolescent Related Content

Staff Profile: Denice Cronin, PsyD

Denice Cronin, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist at the McLean SouthEast Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment (ART) Program and associated partial hospital program. She provides individual, family, and group psychotherapy, completes psychological evaluations, and supervises psychology trainees. Dr...

School Consultation Service

McLean Hospital’s School Consultation Service is dedicated to empowering schools, organizations, and their communities to promote the positive mental health of their students. Our service aims to expand the reach of evidence-based interventions. We accomplish this by translating strategies we use in...

Staff Profile: Rachel O. Rubin, PhD

Rachel O. Rubin, PhD, is a staff psychologist who works with children, adolescents, and families at the Child and Adolescent OCD Institute (OCDI Jr.). She specializes in providing evidence-based treatments, such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), and...

Staff Profile: Chelsea L. Hustus, PhD

Chelsea L. Hustus, PhD, utilizes evidence-based treatments, including cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) in her work with teens and families. She specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and broad emotion dysregulation. Dr. Hustus has...

Staff Profile: Esther Tung, PhD

Esther Tung, PhD, is a staff psychologist at the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program. Her clinical and research interests include anxiety disorders, borderline personality disorder and DBT, suicidal ideation, and Asian American mental health

Staff Profile: Halide Bilge Turkozer, MD

Halide Bilge Turkozer, MD, is a staff psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is also an investigator at McLean Hospital’s Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research Program. Her clinical interests include emerging serious mental illnesses in...

Staff Profile: Tamara Welikson, PhD

Tamara Welikson, PhD, is the director of psychological services for the Support, Treatment, and Resilience (STAR) Program at McLean Hospital. She is also an instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Welikson’s clinical and research specialization focuses...

Staff Profile: Rajvi Broker-Sen, MD

Rajvi Broker-Sen, MD, has extensive experience in providing psychiatric assessments and treatment to children, teens, and young adults while working in both community-based and hospital-based settings. Previously, she worked at Bradley Hospital in Rhode Island, where she provided treatment for...

Staff Profile: Elan French, PhD

Elan French, PhD, is a clinical psychologist specializing in treating both youth and adults and has a special interest working with LGBTQ+ youth. They have expertise in treating anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and eating disorders. Their primary treatment modalities include...

McLean SouthEast Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment Program

The McLean SouthEast Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment (ART) Program provides focused, short-term psychiatric care for teens and young adults up to age 19 who are experiencing emotional or behavioral crisis. Most stays last 10-14 days, and the program is insurance-based and voluntary. Located...

Staff Profile: Luisa Barreto, PsyD

Luisa Barreto, PsyD, is a staff psychologist who works with children, adolescents, and families at McLean’s Child and Adolescent OCD Institute (OCDI Jr.). She specializes in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy for youth with severe anxiety and OCD. She...

McLean Anxiety Mastery Program

Watching your child struggle with anxiety or OCD can be heartbreaking. The constant worries, the rituals that take over daily life, the fears that keep them from school, friends, or even simple joys—it’s overwhelming, and you just want to help. But you don’t have to navigate this alone. Our...

3East DBT for Adolescents & Young Adults

McLean’s adolescent dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) programs, collectively known as 3East, provide specialized residential and outpatient care for teens and young adults. 3East DBT for adolescents and young adults focuses on treatment for depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...

Staff Profile: Hyun Jung Kim, MD

Hyun Jung Kim, MD is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, specializing in psychosis-risk syndromes and early psychosis. After completing psychiatry residency at Duke University and a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital, Dr. Kim joined Yale...

Child and Adolescent Partial Hospital Programs

McLean’s child and adolescent partial hospital programs provide intensive, short-term mental health care for children, teens, and young adults ages 7 to 19 with emotional and behavioral challenges. These insurance-based programs focus on stabilization and teach coping skills, offering a structured...

OCD Institute

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating illness consisting of unwanted thoughts and time-consuming rituals that can significantly limit a person’s ability to function in daily life. In 1997, we opened our doors as the country’s first residential treatment program for this condition...

Pathways Academy

Pathways Academy is a year-round, therapeutic day school developed to meet the social, sensory, psychological, and educational needs of children and adolescents ages 6 through 22 with autism spectrum disorders as well as other related disorders. Our school addresses social pragmatic (social...

The Transformative Power of DBT for Young People

Adolescence can be an incredibly turbulent period of life. Physical changes, academic pressures, social struggles, and emotional upheaval can weigh heavily on a teenager’s mental health. Unfortunately, this often results in mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, impulsiveness, and even...

Staff Profile: Laura D. Mead, MSEd, MBA

Laura D. Mead, MSEd, MBA, an educator and administrator with 25 years of experience in special education, is currently the co-director of Pathways Academy, McLean Hospital’s school for students on the autism spectrum often with co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses. Ms. Mead’s background is in...