Mary Schwab-Stone, M.D.
Director, Child Study Center
Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology Yale University School of Medicine
Chief, Child Psychiatry Children's Hospital at Yale-New Haven
Research Interests
Dr. Mary Schwab-Stone’s clinical, research and teaching efforts focus on aspects of community child and adolescent psychiatry. Over the past 19 years, she has developed and expanded a model of psychiatric consultation to public schools. Children receiving, or being considered for Special Education Programming, on the basis of emotional, behavioral or developmental disorders, are evaluated by Dr. Schwab-Stone and the Child Study Center based consultation team in collaboration with school personnel. This also serves as a teaching vehicle for advanced trainees in psychiatry and nursing, with the goal of building necessary skills for working in community systems, especially schools.
Dr. Schwab-Stone has conducted an ongoing epidemiological assessment of competencies, problem behaviors, attitudes, and psychiatric symptomatology, known as the Social and Health Assessment, in area schools since 1992. Typically, each wave of data collection involves about 3,000 students; hence, approximately 30,000 surveys have been completed to date. This team also manages the administration of a teacher rating scale for elementary age students that assesses behavior, symptoms and competencies. She serves as Director of the Center's Program on International Child and Adolescent Mental Health, which addresses child mental health research and policy issues cross-culturally. Her research interests focus on psychiatric issues as they bear on psychosocial problems of children and adolescents in community settings.
Curriculum Vitae & Links
Recent Publications
- Schwab-Stone M, Ayers T, Kasprow W, Voyce C, Barone C, Shriver T and Weissberg RP: No Safe Haven: A Study of Violence Exposure in an Urban Community. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 34:1343-1352, 1995
- Schwab-Stone M, Shaffer D, Dulcan MK, Jensen PS, Fisher P, Bird HR, Goodman SH, Lahey BB, Lichtman JH, Canino G, Rubio-Stipec M and Rae DS: Criterion Validity of the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children Version 2.3 (DISC-2.3). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35:878-888, 1996
- Schwab-Stone M and Briggs-Gowan MJ: The Scope and Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence. In JG Young and P Ferrari (Eds) Mental Health Services and Systems for Children and Adolescents: A Shrewd Investment, Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis, 1998, pp 15-25
- Schwab-Stone M, Chen C, Greenberger E, Silver D, Lichtman J and Voyce C: No Safe Haven II: The Effects of Violence Exposure on Urban Youth. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 38(4):359-367, 1999
- King RA, Schwab-Stone M, Peterson B, Thies A: Psychiatric Assessment of Infants, Children and Adolescents. In HI Kaplan and B Sadock (Eds) Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, pp 2558-2586, 2000
- Scahill L, and Schwab-Stone M: Epidemiology of ADHD in School-Age Children. In Lewis M (Consulting Ed) Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 9(3):541-555, 2000
- Schwab-Stone M, Ruchkin V, Vermeiren R and Leckman P: Cultural Considerations in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents: Operationalizing the Importance of Culture in Treatment. In Belfer M (Guest Ed) Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 10(4):729-743. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 2001
- 8. Schwab-Stone M, Henrich C and Armbruster P: Community School Consultation. In Lewis M (Ed) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry A Comprehensive Textbook, 3rd Edition, Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002
- O'Donnell D, Schwab-Stone M and Muyeed A: Multidimensional Resilience in Urban Children Exposed to Community Violence. Child Development, 73(4):1265-1282, 2002
- Ruchkin V and Schwab-Stone M: What Can We Learn From Developmental Studies of Psychiatric Disorders? The Lancet, 362:1951-1952, 2003
Grants/Contracts
- Principal Investigator: Mental Health Needs Assessment for Greenwich Youth, 2006-present
- Investigator: Man Ana: An Investigation of Ethnic Identity Formation of Muslim Arab Children in the United States, Pia Rebello Britto, Principal Investigator, 2006-present
- Principal Investigator: QUIERA Niños de la Calle (Mexican Children of the Street), 2005-present
- Principal Investigator: The Social and Health Assessment Project, New Haven Public Schools, Bethany, Orange, Woodbridge and Amity (BOWA) Public Schools, CT Private School, 1992-present
- Co-Investigator: Building Preventive Group Norms in Urban Middle Schools, Jean Schensul, Principal Investigator, NIDA, 1998-2003
- Co-Investigator: Comprehensive Elementary School AIDS Education, David Schonfeld, Principal Investigator, NICHD, 1998-2002
- Principal Investigator: Yale Site Methodologic Epidemiology for Children and Adolescents MECA, NIMH, 1989-94
- Principal Investigator: A Rural-Urban Study of Child Psychiatric Disorders, NIMH, 1988-1993
- Consultant and 10% or less time on projects involving identification of children with psychosocial problems in pediatric practices and children at high risk for substance abuse
- Project Coordinator: DISC Revision Project, Columbia University, David Shaffer MD, PI, 1985-87
Collaborators
- Pia Rebello Britto, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Yale Child Study Center
- Elena Grigorenko, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale Child Study Center, Deputy Director Pace Center Psychology
- Vladislav Ruchkin, MD, PhD, Psychiatrist & Director of Reseach, Skonviks Psychiatric Clinic, Center of Forensic psychiatry, Sater, Sweden Associate Research Fellow, Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Assistant Professor Adjunct, Yale Child Study Center
- Janet Shein, PhD, Association for Child Psychoanalysis; International Psychoanalytic Association, Mexico
- Denis Sukhodolsky, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Yale Child Study Center
- David Szydlo, MD, International Psychoanalytic Association, ABC Medical Center, Mexico
- Robert Vermeiren, MD, PhD, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Leiden/ VU University medical center, the Netherlands; Assistant Professor Adjunct, CSC, NH.
Consultation with Experts on International Child Mental Health
- Dirk Deboutte, MD, Professor of Child Psychiatry, University of Antwerp, Belgium
- Theo Dorelejers, MD, Professor Child Psychiatry, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Arthur Eidelman, MD, Professor, Department of Neonatology, Shaarei Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
- Martin Eisemann, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, Tromso University, Norway
- Cecilia Essau, PhD, Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Münster, Germany
- Antonio Fonseca, MD, Professor, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Sheilagh Hodgins, MD, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, UK, and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Fritz Poustka, MD, Professor, Frankfurt University, Frankfurt, Germany
- Jorg Richter, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, Rostock University, Germany
- Janet Shein, PhD, Association for Child Psychoanalysis; International Psychoanalytic Association, Mexico
- David Szydlo, MD, International Psychoanalytic Association, ABC Medical Center, Mexico Robert Vermeiren, MD, PhD, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Leiden/ VU University medical center, the Netherlands; Adjunct Faculty Yale Child Study Center.
- Hirokazu Yoshikawa, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, New York University, US
- Pia Rebello Britto, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Yale Child Study Center, US
- Ariel Como, MD, Psychiatrist, University Hospital Centre Mother Teresa, Albania
- Andres Martin, MD, Associate Professor Child Psychiatry and Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center; Medical Director, Children’s Psychiatric Inpatient Service, Yale/New Haven Children’s Hospital, US
- Debra O’Donnell, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, US
- Herbert Schrier, MD, Chief of Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital Research Center, Oakland, California, US
- Denis Sukhodolsky, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Yale Child Study Center, US
- Chiyoko Uchida, MD, Associate Professor Psychiatry, University Health Center, Ibaraki University, Japan
Post Doctoral/Clinical Scholar fellowships
- Dr. Nasrin Akbarzadeh, Child Psychologist, France and Iran
- Mentoring and collaboration with Yale graduate, Joshua Barenbaum, BA, who received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the University of Seoul, South Korea from August 2002 to May 2003; responsibilities included co-coordination of the ISAHA data collection in Seoul (Korea) public school system
- Dr. Stephanie Jones, Child Psychologist, US
- Dr. Roman Koposov, Child Psychiatrist, Russia
- Dr. Boris Lorberg, Adult Psychiatrist, US
- Dr. Maria Moyano, Child Psychiatrist, Argentina
- Dr. Vanessa Munoz Jove, Child Psychiatrist, Mexico
- Dr. Isabelle Mussche, Child Psychiatrist, Belgium
- Dr. Vladislav Ruchkin, Child Psychiatrist and Psychologist, Russia
- Dr. Dirk van West, Child Psychiatrist, Belgium
- Dr. Robert Vermeiren, Child Psychiatrist and Psychologist, Belgium
- Marek Blatny, PhD, Child Psychologist, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic
- Michal Hrdlicka, MD, PhD, 2nd Medical School of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Contact
Campus Address
Child Study Center
230 South Frontage Road
P.O. Box 207900
New Haven, CT 06520-7900
E-mail
mary.schwab-stone@yale.edu
Office Phone
203-785-2545
Fax
203-785-6106
