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Laura Mufson, PH.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry)
Director, Dept of Clinical Psychology,
New York State Psychiatric Institute
Associate Professional Psychologist,
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Director, Clinical Child Psychology in Child Psychiatry,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Research Scientist,
New York State Psychiatric Institute
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Laura Mufson, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, a Research Scientist at New York State Psychiatric Institute, and Director of the Department of Clinical Psychology at New York State Psychiatric Institute.
In addition, she is Director of Clinical Child Psychology in Child Psychiatry and directs the training program in empirically supported treatments for children and adolescents in the Dept of Child Psychiatry. She is an expert on Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescent Depression (IPT-A) and is the author of many publications on adolescent depression, temperament, psychopathology, and risk factors for psychopathology.
Dr. Mufson's primary interest is in the evaluation of empirically supported psychotherapy outcomes both in the efficacy and effectiveness arenas. She is a co-investigator on the Dept of Child Psychiatry's NIMH Advanced Center for Intervention and Services Research.
She is a consultant on numerous grants studying other adaptations of IPT-A, testng empirically supported therapies for children and adolescents, and the implementation and dissemination of empirically supported treatments into community settings both in the United States and Canada. She is the recipient of the Gerald L. Klerman Young Investigator Award from the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance as well as both a NARSAD Young Investigator Award and NARSAD Independent Investigator Award.
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Undergraduate: Princeton University, A.B., 1979-1983
Graduate: Emory University, Ph.D., 1983-1988
Internship: NYU - Bellevue Hospital, Predoctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology, 1987-1988
Post-Graduate: Columbia University-NYSPI, NIMH T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Child Psychiatry, 1988-1990
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• Child and Adolescent Psychology
• Adolescent Depression
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Address:
NYS Psychiatric Institute
Room 2409 Unit/Box:24
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-543-5561
Fax: 212-543-6660
lhm3@columbia.edu
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| Research interests include the evaluation of empirically supported intervention outcomes in clinical trials conducted in research and community settings, adolescent perception of the need for mental health care, transportability and dissemination of treatments into the community, models for training clinicians in empirically supported psychotherapies, as well as mediators and moderators of treatment outcome.
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1. Mufson L, Pollack Dorta K, Moreau D, Weissman MM: Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents, second edition., Guilford Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 2004
1. Mufson L, Pollack Dorta K, Olfson M, Weissman MM, Hoagwood K, Mufson L, Dorta KP, Olfson M, Weissman MM, Hoagwood K : Effectiveness research: transporting interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed adolescents (IPT-A) from the lab to school-based health clinics. Clinical Child & Family Psychology Review 2004;7: 251-261
1. Mufson L, Pollack Dorta K, Wickramaratne P, Nomura Y, Olfson M, Weissman MM: The Effectiveness of
Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents.. Archives of General Psychiatry. 2004;61: 577-584
1. Mufson L, Weissman MM, Moreau D : The Efficacy of Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents. Archives of General Psychiatry 1999;56: 573-579
1. Mufson L, Gallagher T, Pollack Dorta K, Young JF: Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescent Depression: Adaptation for Group Therapy.. American Journal of Psychotherapy. 2004;58: 220-37
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