Jean A. Adnopoz, M.P.H.

Clinical Professor
Coordinator of Community Programs

Research Interests

My clinical and research career has been devoted to the development of programs and policies that address the needs of children who are at substantial risk for disruption of their relationships with their primary caregivers and placement in facilities and systems other than their biologic families. Our work has focused on children in the child welfare, mental health and juvenile justice systems. Some of these children are vulnerable for abuse, neglect, and abandonment or affected by parental drug addiction, chronic physical or mental illness, mental retardation and homelessness. Others suffer from their own serious psychiatric and behavioral disorders, often the result of the interaction between their own genetic imprint and chronic and pervasive stress, secondary to continuous exposure to neglect, violence and deprivation.

The intervention and treatment models we have developed at the Child Study Center offer intensive, home-based, family focused services that incorporate concepts derived from developmental psychopathology, psychoanalysis, transactional risk, cognitive-behavioral and systems theories. My colleagues and I are currently engaged in a randomized study of the Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Service (IICAPS) a standardized treatment model for children with serious emotional disturbances and their families that is now being replicated in 17 sites within Connecticut. We have also implemented two new models of treatment for children affected by parental substance abuse. Family Based Recovery, (FBR) is designed to address both the parent and child relationship in a developmental context and to provide reinforcement-based substance abuse treatment for parents who are active users. FBR has been replicated in 5 additional sites throughout the state. SAFE Families offers drug and mental health treatment for families from which a child has been removed. In collaboration with Advanced Behavioral Health it aims to promote reunification and permanency.

Recent Publications

• Woolston, J, Adnopoz, J., Berkowitz, S., Staying Home: Feeling Better, A Treatment Paradigm for Children with Serious Psychiatric Illness, Yale University Press, New Haven, Ct., in press
• Adnopoz, J., Working with High Risk Children and Families in their Own Homes: An Integrated Approach to the Treatment of Vulnerable Children, Handbook of Community-Based Clinical Practice, A. Lightburn, P. Sessions (eds), Oxford University Press, New York, 2005.
• Murphy, R., Forsyth, B., Adnopoz, J., Neurobiological and Psychosocial Sequelae of HIV Disease in Child and Adolescents, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, (3rd Ed.) M. Lewis (Ed.). Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2002.
• Adnopoz, J., Grigsby, K., High-Risk Children, Adolescents and Families: Organizing Principles for Mental Health Prevention and Intervention, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, (3rd Ed.) M. Lewis (Ed.). Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. 2002
• Adnopoz, J., Home Based Child and Family Treatment, In: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, (3rd Ed.) M. Lewis (Ed.). Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2002.
• Adnopoz, J., Home Based Treatment for Children with Severe Emotional Disturbances, Handbook for Serious Emotional Disturbances in Children and Adolescents, D. Marsh, M. Fristad (Ed.), New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002
• Adnopoz, J., Berkowitz, S. (Eds.), Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America: Children & Adolescents Affected by HIV/AIDS: A Mental Health Challenge, Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, April 2000, Vol. 9, No. 2.
• Adnopoz, J., Relative Caregiving: An Option for Permanency. In: Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America. J. Adnopoz, S. Berkowitz (Eds.) Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, April 2000, Vol. 9, No. 2, 359-373.
• Tebes, J., Kaufman, J., Adnopoz, J., Racusin, G. Reducing risk for children of parents with serious mental disorders through family support Yale Psychiatry, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1999.

Contact

Campus Address
Child Study Center
230 South Frontage Road
P.O. Box 207900
New Haven, CT 06520-7900

Office Address
203 NIHB

E-mail
jean.adnopoz@yale.edu

Office Phone
203-785-4947

Fax
203-785-7402