Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
The CAP fellowship equips fellows with the skills needed to diagnose and treat children and adolescents experiencing the spectrum of mental and developmental difficulties.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
The CAP fellowship equips fellows with the skills needed to diagnose and treat children and adolescents experiencing the spectrum of mental and developmental difficulties.
Training the Next Generation of Leaders in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Our program offers the unique integration of:
- an unparalleled clinical training setting inclusive of outpatient, partial hospital, inpatient, and residential levels of care serving patients from infancy through young adulthood and their families
- a deep commitment to an integrated approach to treating psychological, behavioral, somatic, and social/structural manifestations of and contributors to mental illness,
- an enormously productive research program, and
- a culture that strives to cultivate a sense of inclusiveness, belonging, warmth, and collegiality.
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The Brown Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship offers a wide exposure to all aspects of child/adolescent psychiatry and includes additional elective experiences, which allow for the development of specific expertise.
The Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program admits six fellows per year.
Brown Psychiatry and Human Behavior leads the field in high-impact education, research, and clinical care, with compassion and advocacy at the heart of our work.
Diversity and Anti-Racism
The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, The Warren Alpert Medical School, and the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry remain committed to practices that advance social justice, structural competence, cultural humility, and anti-racism throughout our training programs, hospitals, and community. The fellowship program is dedicated to ensuring the cultivation of these skills and values in our trainees, as well as empowering them to be advocates and leaders of change.
The program offers a wide exposure to all aspects of child psychiatry and includes additional elective experiences in areas which allow for the development of specific expertise.
The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship strives to foster trainee connection and well-being through a variety of methods.
Research in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Our research training track fills a critical training gap and national need for physician scientists, while minimally extending physician time in training.
Recent News
Alaa Elnajjar, M.D., teaches cultural humility, culturally competent interview methods, and therapy techniques for youth from diverse backgrounds to trainees in Brown's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship and Triple Board Residency.
Josh Wortzel, M.D., is one of five recipients of the annual Haffenreffer Family House Staff Excellence Award from Rhode Island Hospital.
The program welcomes six new fellows who will begin training in July.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow Joshua Wortzel, M.D., speaks with CNN about the risks warming temperatures pose for people with mental health conditions.
Pilar Trelles, associate training director (research and scholarship) of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, has been selected to receive the LPG Clinician Scholar Award.