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Founded by Arnold Gesell in 1911 as the Yale Child Development Clinic, the Yale Child Study Center has a distinguished history of research and clinical work with children and families from around the world. Today, the center’s programs range from basic studies of developmental neurobiology and genetics to therapeutic programs in schools and the community. Under the leadership of Donald Cohen, M.D., the center has an international reputation for leadership in the field of child psychiatry, for setting the standard for child psychiatric training and care of the most serious child psychiatric disorders, and for sophisticated research in the field.
The center has been a pioneer in the scientific study of infants and children and the use of developmental knowledge to provide guidance to parents, educators, and professionals. Its clinical programs serve children and families from around the world as well as the greater New Haven regionand include general and specialized outpatient clinics, a child psychiatry inpatient service in the
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Children’s Hospital at Yale-New Haven, and a range of community-based programs in schools and early childhood centers. The center provides intensive training for professionals in child psychiatry and psychology, social work, pediatrics, nursing, and education for Yale undergraduate and graduate students and for medical students in particular. Research at the center has shaped the modern understanding of child behavior and development.
Mental retardation and developmental disabilities, the longest continually funded program project grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Current studies focus on autism, Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorders, and Williams, Prader-Willi, and fragile X syndromes. through the pathbreaking use of national and international multi-site studies, the Child Study Center’s research programs in autism are exploring the very basic question of how infants become (or do not become) social human beings.
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Tourette’s syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder, a model of multidisciplinary research bringing contemporary neurobiological, neuroimaging, genetic, pharmacological, and psychosocial intervention perspectives to bear on complex psychiatric problems.
Child Development and Community Policing, a program involving a unique partnership with the New Haven Police Department and mental health professionals to bring immediate services to children caught in urban violence. The CDCP is being replicated throughout the United States and has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice as the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence.
The effect of parental substance abuse on children’s long-term development, an exemplar of careful longitudinal studies with families and young children at greatest risk for developmental problems. With its extensive background in the development of very young children at risk, the center is uniquely able to examine the effects of substance abuse in the context of fundamental developmental issues.
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The Comer School Development Program, a nationally recognized and extensively replicated approach to enhancing the role of schools in the lives of children and families. The School of the 21st Century brings contemporary understanding of child development into the classroom. The center provides mental health services to children in the New Haven public schools; these school-based mental health services are national models.
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