Biography

Amy Bobrow, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and associate research scientist at the at NYU Child Study Center School Partnership. At the Center, Bobrow provides consultation, evaluation, and treatment to children, parents, and staff at several schools evacuated from nearby the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 in the School Based Intervention Program. She also conducts diagnostic psychiatric evaluations and individual therapy with children, adolescents, and parents affected by ADHD and related disorders and provides neuropsychological assessments to children and adolescents with learning disorders and disruptive behavior disorders. Bobrow coordinates, edits, and publishes a monthly parent newsletter with circulation to more than 1,000 public, private, and parochial schools in the tri-state area. She also organizes and participates in "Children’s Mental Health: The Sunny and Abe Rosenberg Foundation Lecture Series," a series of professional development seminars designed to provide school-based practitioners with updates on recent advances in children’s mental health.

Bobrow received her BA degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received her PhD in clinical psychology from St. John’s University.

Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, Bobrow worked at the Child and Adolescent Day Hospital Center at Hillside Hospital as an assistant psychologist. She conducted individual and family therapy, planned treatment strategies, taught classes on cognitive-behavioral therapy to psychiatry residents and psychology interns, and supervised psychology externs.