Jessica Merritt, MD

Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Medical Director, PHP/IOP

Research Information

Youth experiencing homelessness, Psychodynamic Therapy, Trauma Disorders

Representative Publications

Lavender, J., Benningfield, M. M., Merritt, J. A., Gibson, R. L., & Bettis, A. H. (2021). Measurement-based Care in the Adolescent Partial Hospital Setting: Implementation, Challenges, & Future Directions. Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 1-13.

Merritt, Jessica A, et al. “Medical Etiologies of Secondary Psychosis in Children and Adolescents.” Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1st ed., vol. 29, Elsevier, 2020, pp. 29–42.

Merritt, J., & Benningfield, M. (2019). Lessons from the street through a homeless youth with depression. Psychiatric Services, 70(6), 526-527.

Merritt, J. & Williamson, E. (2019). Eighth grade [Review of the film Eighth Grade, by B. Burnham]. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 58(1), 142-144.

Merritt, J., Hart, J. C., & LeGrow, T. L. (2017). Autism spectrum disorder in Say-Barber-Biesecker-Young-Simpson syndrome. Case Reports, 2017, 2017:bcr-2017-21993.