Department / Division:
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences / Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Address:
DUMC 104424
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-419-3474, ext. 224

Office Telephone:
919-682-1552, ext. 253 (Monday, Tuesday and Friday) or 919-419-3474, ext. 405 (Wednesday, Thursday)

Fax Telephone:
919-419-9353

• MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 1986-1993

• Psychiatry, UNC Hospitals, 1986-1989

• Child Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center, 1989-1991
• Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of North Carolina, 1991-1993

Clinical Interests:
Psychopharmacology and psychotherapy for child and adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder and related problems

Research Interests:
My research focus is on psychological trauma and exposure to violence in children and adolescents.  My current interests in this area span not only the epidemiological search for assessment of risk factors, protective factors, and treatment effects, but also to assess if children with sequela from violence and trauma are able to access and utilize appropriate services.  Specifically for child victims of trauma, I seek to integrate a developmental framework into available research tools and methodology.  Currently I am involved in a number of research projects: 1) Family and Child functioning in children whose parents have PTSD; 2) Developmental and implementation of a manualized multimodal treatment package for children exposed to trauma; 3) Longitudinal follow-up of children exposed to child maltreament (LONGSCAN) and 4) my most time-consuming and critical endeavor has been the collaborative endeavor with 3 area universities to create a trauma evaluation, treatment and research program as part of a multidisciplinary effort to serve kids exposed to violence and maltreatment.  A research database in being into a systematic approach to dealing with traumatized youth.

Representative Publications:
Amaya-Jackson L, March JS: Post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents. In (ed March JS), Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Guilford Press, 1995. (1995)

Amaya-Jackson L, March JS: Post-traumatic stress disorder in adolescents-risk factors, diagnosis and intervention. In (eds., Christoffel K, Runyan C), Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews. Volume: Violence and Injury Prevention. 6 (2): 251-270, 1995. (1995)

Amaya-Jackson L, Mesco RH, McGough JJ, Cantwell DP: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In (ed Lamb HR), Neurobiological Disorders in Children and Adolescents. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992. (1992)

Amaya-Jackson L, Cantwell DP: Controversies in the psychopharmacological management of attention deficit and related disorders. International Pediatrics 6: 176-83, 1991. (1991)