Handbook of Evidence-based Day Treatment Programs for Children and Adolescents

Jarrod M. Leffler, Ph.D., ABPP, is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Children’s Hospital of Richmond, and the Virginia Treatment Center for Children. He provides oversight of outpatient, inpatient, and pediatric psychology programming and provides clinical service and supervision in these settings.  Before joining VCU Dr. Leffler was an Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic where he was the co-director of the pediatric mood clinic and inpatient psychiatry consulting psychology. He developed and directed  the Child and Adolescent Integrated Mood Program (CAIMP), a two-week family-based PHP for youth with mood disorders, and the Pediatric Transition Program (PTP) a DBT focused IOP  . Dr. Leffler began developing day treatment programs in 2000, and since that time has developed PHPs and IOPs for youth ages 5-18.   He providesclinical supervision to psychology graduate students, interns and fellows as well as psychiatry residents and fellows and staff members. Dr. Leffler has published clinical research on PHP, IOP, and inpatient psychiatric hospitalization models of care; treatment models for youth and caregivers, including the Multifamily Psychoeducation Psychotherapy (MF-PEP), CAIMP, and individual-based treatment for youth with mood disorders. He has also published research on training staff on implementing EBTs. Dr. Leffler has served two terms as the President of the American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. He co-founded and co-chairs the Acute, Intensive, and Residential Service (AIRS) Special Interest Group of the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 53) of the American Psychological Association.  

Elisabeth A. Frazier, Ph.D., is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and an Attending Psychologist at the Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital. She has provided direct clinical care and supervision of psychology and psychiatry trainees across various levels of care including inpatient, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and juvenile detention settings. Dr. Frazier currently works in the Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program at Bradley Hospital, a family-based, short-term, intensive program treating adolescents with a wide range of psychiatric presenting problems. She is a lead psychologist in Bradley REACH, an innovative fully virtual partial hospitalization program (PHP) through Bradley Hospital, which brings PHP level of care to youth and families across multiple states in the United States. Dr. Frazier has published clinical research including adaptation and implementation of empirically based treatment in the inpatient psychiatry setting, clinical outcomes in adolescent PHP treatment, and intervention research in teens with mood, disruptive behavior, and substance use disorders in intensive outpatient and community outpatient settings. She has also served as the Practice Committee Co-Chair in the Acute, Intensive, and Residential Service (AIRS) Special Interest Group of the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 53) of the American Psychological Association.