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

 

 

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 currently is studying the efficacy of IPT-A for depressed and suicidal adolescents and a model of stepped care for adolescent depression delivered in pediatric primary care clinics. She is a co-investigator and/or consultant on several grants studying adaptations of IPT-A in school-based clinics, adaptations of IPT-A for prevention of disorders and for prepubertal depression, testng other empirically supported therapies for children and adolescents, and the implementation and dissemination of empirically supported treatments into community settings. 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.

Education and Training

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

Specialties

• Child and Adolescent Psychology
• Adolescent Depression

Contact information

Address:
NYS Psychiatric Institute
Room 2407  Unit/Box:74
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY   10032

Phone: 212-543-5561
Fax: 212-543-6660
lhm3@columbia.edu

research summary

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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Publications

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. Gunlicks-Stoessel, M., Mufson L., Jekal, A, & Turner, B. :  The impact of interpersonal functioning on treatment for adolescent depression: IPT-A versus treatment as usual in school-based health clinics..   Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology  2010;78: 260-267