Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences News & Announcements

In this week’s news roundup, CHOP’s Department of Pediatrics ranked No 1. in U.S. News & World Report’s ‘Best Pediatrics Programs’ for medical schools.

CHOP is excited to announce the launch of the CHOP Tri-County School Mental Health Consortium (SMHC), a collaboration between CHOP researchers from PolicyLab and the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (DCAPBS) and the Chester, Delaware and…

The Mitchell Lab is creating a mobile health platform for the pediatric care setting to promote longer sleep duration for childhood obesity prevention.

Diversity Fellow Alfonso Floyd, PhD, studies the impact of risk and resilience on the mental health of minority youth with type 1 diabetes.

Wanjikũ Njoroge, MD, studies the joint effects of the pandemic and syndemic conditions like structural racism on a mother’s mental health and their young child’s early development.

The work of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers leads to novel findings and recognitions.

Students from four local high schools got a glimpse of the possibilities and promise of a career in STEM-M.

With a new grant from the National Institutes of Health, researchers are investigating racial disparities in children with co-occurring sleep disorders.

Financial stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on adolescent mental health and contributed to depressive symptoms.

CHOP researchers found that adolescents who are cyberbullied are more likely to report suicidal thoughts and attempts.