Associate Professor and Director, Program for Anxiety and Mood Disorders,
Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine

 

Dr. Eli Lebowitz is a child and adolescent psychologist and director of the Yale Child Study Center’s Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program where he studies and treats childhood and adolescent anxiety. His research focuses on the development, neurobiology, and treatment of anxiety and related disorders, with special emphasis on cross-generational and family dynamics in these disorders. Dr. Lebowitz is the lead investigator on multiple funded research projects, and is the author of over one hundred research papers, books and chapters on childhood and adolescent anxiety. He has developed a parent-based treatment program for children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, and related challenges called SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions).
He is also the father of three great boys.