Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents (PDF)

adolescents. Dr. Delgado is the Founder and Director of the relational advanced psychotherapy program (RAPP) in Cincinnati.



Jeffrey R. Strawn, MD

Dr. Strawn received his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Kentucky and then completed his residency training in general psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati. Following his general psychiatry training, he completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
Currently, Dr. Strawn's is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and is the director of the Pediatric Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the University of Cincinnati. His clinical work focuses on the psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic treatment of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents and his research program focuses on elucidating the underlying neural circuitry of these conditions, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Additionally, he is actively involved in the testing of innovative treatments for youth with mood and anxiety disorders. Dr. Strawn has published more than 75 papers and book chapters and his research has been acknowledged by numerous organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
He enjoys teaching and is actively involved in the teaching of psychotherapy with adolescents and the treatment of adult and pediatric anxiety disorders to medical students, general psychiatry residents and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center  



Ernest V. Pedapati, MD

Dr. Pedapati is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and maintains a joint appointment in the Division of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He completed medical school at the University of Massachusetts. He completed his Triple Board Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center which is a combined residency in Pediatrics, Adult Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.
Dr. Pedapati is extensively involved in clinical and research work involving autism and developmental disabilities. He is received the institutional Proctor Scholarship which supports the career development of early physician scientists.  He is currently a child psychiatry consultant to the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Pedapati is a member of the Autism Research Group at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and conducts clinical trials and basic psychological research in children with social impairments and repetitive behaviors. In addition, he is a part of an interdisciplinary research team which studies the neurophysiology of neuropsychiatric illness through transcranial magnetic stimulation.