Faculty Positions. Prior to joining the faculty at Nova Southeastern University in 1992, Dr. Orvaschel was an Associate Professor and Director of Child Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute from 1987 to 1982. She was also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Epidemiology at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, the University of Pittsburgh from 1982 to 1987,and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine from 1979 to 1982.

At the Center for Psychological Studies at Nova, Dr. Orvaschel teaches courses in adult and child psychopathology, case conceptualization, child and adolescent intervention, and interventions in depression.

Editorial activities. Dr. Orvaschel has been a licensed psychologist since 1977, first in New York, and then in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and most recently Florida. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Clinical Case Studies, and the Journal ofClinical Child Psychology, and serves as a reviewer for the American Journal of Psychiatry, Child Development, the International Journal of Epidemiology, Clinical Psychology Review, the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, the Journal of Affective Disorders, Developmental Psychology, the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, and Women and Health.

Research. Dr. Orvaschel has reviewed grants for the William T. Grant Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health, and also held grants from both. Her research has included work in child and adolescent diagnostic assessment, risk factors for psychopathology in children, genetics factors in prepubertal depression, and consequences of child abuse and neglect. She is the author of the epidemiologic version of the Schedule for Affective Disorders for School-Age Children-Version 5 (K-SADS-E), a semi-structured diagnostic interview used internationally with children and adolescents and has over 80 publications and presentations, primarily in the area of mood disorders and the assessment of psychopathology in youth. A selection of presentations and publications appears below.