Barbara Stuart, PhD

She is the Director of the APA CAS Multicultural Training Program. Dr. Stuart received her doctorate in clinical psychology at UC Berkeley, where she studied emotional functioning in psychosis. Subsequently, she completed her internship at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and a postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF. Dr. Stuart is already well-known to our UCSF psychiatry community as she has been a staff psychologist at the UCSF Young Adult and Family Center (YAFC) since 2009 and was most recently the clinical director of the YAFC Multigenerational Trauma Clinic. Dr. Stuart specializes in providing evidence-based treatment to high-risk adolescents, young adults, and their families including for youth who are chronically depressed and engage in self-harm. Dr. Stuart has extensive expertise in dialectical behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy as well as in assessment and treatment of early psychosis and serious mental illness. From 2009 to 2016, she served as the director of clinical training for the UCSF Department of Psychiatry Prodrome Assessment Research and Treatment Program. Dr. Stuart also has longstanding experience in training and supervising community-based mental health professionals in evidence-based clinical assessment and treatment for youth. She has a clear and strong commitment and dedication to integrating issues of diversity and multiculturalism in all aspects of her clinical work, teaching/mentoring and research.