The Pediatric Stress and Anxiety Disorders Clinic (PSADC) specializes in early identification, comprehensive evaluation, and evidence-based treatment of anxiety disorders in diverse youth from age 4 years through older adolescents. The PSADC has a multidisciplinary team that includes Liza Suarez, PhD (Clinic Director and Clinician), Kelley Volpe, M.D. (Medical Director and Clinician) and multidisciplinary trainees including child psychiatry fellows, psychology interns and externs, social work interns, and medical students. The PSADC team strives to work with families to create an individualized treatment program tailored to each patient and their symptoms. Individualized treatment programming may include cognitive behavioral therapy, parent guidance, family therapy, coordination with schools for school-based interventions, and medication management. Treatment provided is on an outpatient basis.

Clinicians and researchers work collaboratively in the PSADC to understand risk and protective factors in diverse youth with anxiety disorders, facilitate transportability of evidence-based practices for anxiety to the school and community, and explore neurobiological correlates of childhood anxiety. Anxiety disorders treated include: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, Selective Mutism, Specific Phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Anxiety-related school refusal/school phobia behavior, and adjustment to a variety of stresses or traumas. More specialized assessment and treatment expertise includes Selective Mutism, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Trauma along with its comorbidity with Substance Abuse.

PSADC is also accepting referrals for enrollment in a treatment program for teens aged 13-17 who have experienced trauma and are using drugs or alcohol.