Child and adolescent psychiatrists and clinical child psychologists at Riley Children’s Health partner with children and families to develop a treatment plan to address each child’s mental health needs. Our clinicians, working in outpatient, hospital-based and emergency department settings, focus on advanced, evidence-based evaluations and treatments to provide expert care for psychiatric diagnoses and behavior problems. PSYCHIATRY
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Training tomorrow’s leaders in child psychiatry
Riley Psychiatry is participating in 14 externally funded clinical trials. Select study topics include: ■ Safety and tolerability of lumateperone to treat pediatric patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder ■ Efficacy and safety of cariprazine in pediatric participants (ages 10 to 17) to treat depressive episodes associated with bipolar disorder ■ Drug comparison study to evaluate weight gain in pediatric patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (ENLIGHTEN-Youth) ■ Safety and efficacy of lumateperone to treat irritability associated with autism spectrum disorder in children ages 5 to 17 years ■ Neuroimaging of instrumental learning networks in adolescent cannabis use treatment
Riley Children’s and IU School of Medicine are home to a doctoral internship in clinical psychology , a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship program , and a triple board residency program in pediatrics, psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry, and four postdoctoral fellowships. Post-pediatric Portal Program for General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Riley Children’s is one of five institutions in the nation to offer this three- year combined training program in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry for physicians who have completed a core pediatric residency. We are the first to offer all three child psychiatry training programs (fellowship program, triple board program and post-pediatric portal program).
Premier programs
Advanced technologies and procedures ■ Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) – Riley specialists are among the few practitioners in the region able to use ECT and TMS to treat severe psychiatric disorders in youth. Patients travel from out of state to receive these services at Riley Children’s. ■ Specialized interventions – Many of our providers have training in specialized and/or innovative approaches to assessment and psychotherapy, including computer adaptive testing, SPACE treatment, DBT, TF-CBT, PMT, pain-CBT, CAMS and ENCOMPASS. Professional organization affiliations PROGRAM REVIEW CONSULTANT American Psychological Association Commission on Accreditation Ann M. Lagges, PhD ASSOCIATE EDITOR Journal of Rural Mental Health Gabriela M. Rodriguez, PhD, HSPP EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS ■ Research on Child & Adolescent Psychopathology ■ Development & Psychopathology ■ Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse Zachary W. Adams, PhD
TOP DISTINCTIONS
Multisystemic Therapy Program (MST)® Intensive, family- and
■ Offers continuing education programs, using the Project ECHO model, for primary care providers, K-12 educators and juvenile justice professionals ■ Employs the evidence-based Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality
community-based treatment for youth ages 12 to 17 who are at risk of severe system consequences (e.g., juvenile justice involvement, out-of- home placement) due to serious externalizing, anti- social, and/or delinquent behaviors. Families who participate in this program work closely with their therapist to learn how to address drivers of behavior problems and make long- lasting changes. > Learn more. The Down Syndrome and Developmental Regression Program at IU School of Medicine provides unique care across the lifespan of persons with Down syndrome. The program focuses on helping families access care when their loved ones with a confirmed diagnosis of Down syndrome experience a loss in functioning due to psychiatric comorbidities or developmental regression.
75 research publications in 2025
(CAMS) treatment model for reducing suicidality and improving depression
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
Frontiers in Health Services: April 2025 Characterizing caregivers of youth at risk for substance use and caregiver engagement in the youth legal system: A mixed methods approach NeuroImage Clinical: December 2025 Resting state functional connectivity patterns associate with alcohol use disorder characteristics: Insights from the triple network model Child Psychiatry and Human Development: August 2025 Impulsive decision reduction training for youth (IDRT-Y) to promote adaptive decision-making: Results from a pilot trial Psychiatric Services (Washington DC): December 2025 The Indiana Behavioral Health Access Program for Youth: Five years of statewide implementation Alzheimer’s and Dementia: July 2025 A meta-analysis and systematic review of interventions to prevent or treat cognitive decline related to Alzheimer’s disease in adults with Down syndrome
Psychiatry Volume: 2025
Emergency department behavioral health assessments 1,429 Unique patients receiving outpatient behavioral healthcare 12,742
Inpatient psychiatric hospitalizations 412
Consultations for medically hospitalized patients 829
DIVISION CHIEF Amy E. Williams, PhD, HSPP, ABPP Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, IU School of Medicine
Riley Children’s is one of the few U.S. entities certified to train providers on ENCOMPASS, an evidence-based model that uses CBT, motivational interviewing, pharmacotherapy and contingency management to treat co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders in adolescents.
Riley Children’s is home to one of Indiana’s only dialectical behavior therapy-informed child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient units. The unit cares for children and adolescents who need intensive psychiatric or eating disorder treatment.
44 doctoral-level specialists
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