Carl Adatto Professor of Community Psychiatry

Head of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Clinical Director, New Orleans Adolescent Hospital and Community System of Care

Co-leader, Family/Systems Therapy Orientation

My area of interest focuses primarily on infant and toddler psychiatry, temper tantrums and behavior disorders in young children, PTSD in young children, family/systems therapy and administration.

2002

Tulane Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds Family Therapy Case Presentation: "The Girl Who Cried Every Day for Three Years", January 25, 2002.

2001

Louisiana Special School District's Annual Meeting, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, "When Bad Things Happen to Good Kids". August 24, 2001.

APA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, Co-Director and presenter of course, "Fundamental Knowledge Needed for Clinical Work with Infants and Toddlers". May 8, 2001

APA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, Presenter on Symposium "A Department of Psychiatry's Outreach into the Community". May 7, 2001.

Mississippi Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Tunica, Mississippi, "Is This Any Way to Treat an Infant?" April 8, 2001.

Child Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, "Is This Any Way to Treat An Infant?" March 13, 2001.

Society of Professors of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Meeting,
Key Largo, Florida, Panelist: "Myths about the Bio-psychosocial Model: Implications for Education in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry." March 24, 2001.

2000

Washington State Regional Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, "A Multi-modal Strategy for the Treatment of Behavior Disorders in Young Children," August 31, 2000; Follow-up presentation on infant psychiatry with Child and Adolescent residents, September 1, 2000.

Louisiana Special School District's Annual Meeting, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, "Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescent: Something to Worry About," August 18, 2000.

The Competence Movement: Are We Competent to Measure Competence? Focus on Psychotherapy; Society of Professors of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida, February 26, 2000.

South Carolina Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Columbia, South Carolina. "Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Something to Worry About" January 29, 2000.

Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, University of South Carolina Medical School at Columbia, "A Multi-modal Strategy for the Treatment of Behavior Disorders in Young Children". January 28, 2000