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Candace Killian Farrell

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Behavioral Helath Consultant, Children's Hopspital of Philadelphia, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Quality Improvement Rotation Director/Supervisor, Social Work Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director of Social Work Training, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Psychiatry

Contact information
CHOP Primary Care Springfield
1001 Baltimore Pike, Suite 208
Springfield, PA 19064
Office: 2153885356
Education:
BA (Psychology)
Clemson University, 2000.
MS (Social Work)
Columbia University, 2003.
PhD (Social Work)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016.
Post-Graduate Training
Social Work Intern, Community Counseling and Mediation, Brooklyn, NY, 2001-2002.
Social Work Intern, Employee Assistance Program Consortium, New York, NY, 2002-2003.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Post-Doctoral Trainee, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016-2018.
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Selected Publications

Corr, R., Glier, S., Bizzell, J., Pelletier-Baldelli, A., Campbell, A., Killian-Farrell, C., Belger, A.: Triple Network Functional Connectivity During Acute Stress in Adolescents and the Influence of Polyvictimizatio. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 7(9): 867-875, September 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.03.003. Epub 2022 Mar 12.

Corr, R., Glier, S., Bizzell, J., Pelletier-Baldelli, A., Campbell, A., Killian-Farrell, C., Belger, A.: Stress-related hippocampus activation mediates the association between polyvictimization and trait anxiety in adolescents. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 17(8): 767-776, August 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1093/scan/nsab129.

Lombardi, B.M., Bledsoe, S.E., Killian-Farrell, C., Lanier, P., Skinner, A.C.: Child and adolescent polyvictimization and depressive symptoms in young adults. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 36(21-22), 2021 Notes: doi.org/10.1177/0886260519888521, Epub 2019 Nov 27.

Killian-Farrell, C., Rizo, C.F., Lombardi, B., Meltzer-Brody, S., Bledsoe, S.E.: Traumatic Experience, Polyvictimization, and Perinatal Depression in a Diverse Sample of Adolescent Mothers. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 35(23-24): 6017-6040, November 2020 Notes: doi: 10.1177/0886260517726410. Epub 2017 Aug 21.

Bledsoe, S.E., Wike, T., Killian-Farrell, C., Lombardi, B.M., Bellows, A., Sommer, A.R., Sheely, A.: Feasibility of treating depression in pregnant adolescents using brief interpersonal psychotherapy. Social Work in Mental Health 16(3): 252-65, 2018.

Killian-Farrell, C., Graham, J., Williams, A., Bizzell, J., Waltz, H., Pruessner, J., & Belger, A. : Aberrant Stress Physiology and Brain Function in Adolescents with Arousal-Related Psychopathology. Biological Psychiatry: Supplement: 73rd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting. 2018.

Bledsoe, S.E., Rizo, C.F., Wike, T., Killian-Farrell, C., Wessel, J., Bellows, A., Doernberg, A.: Pregnant adolescents’ perceptions of depression and psychiatric services in the United States. Women and Birth 30(5): e248-e257, October 2017 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2017.02.006. Epub 2017 Mar 18.

Killian-Farrell, C., Williams, A., Bizzell, J., Waltz, H., Andersen, E., Pruessner, J., & Belger, A.: Maturation of Stress Regulatory Brain Circuits. Biological Psychiatry: Supplement: 72nd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting 2017.

O’Brien, J., White, K., Wu, Q., Killian-Farrell, C. : Mental Health and Behavioral Outcomes of Sexual and Non-Sexual Abuse among Child Welfare-Involved Youth. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse 25(5): 483-503, July 2016 Notes: doi: 10.1080/10538712.2016.1167801. Epub 2016 Jun 13.

Killian-Farrell, C., Bledsoe, S. E*., Fraga, C., Lombardi, B.M. & Meltzer-Brody, S. : "Interpersonal Trauma in Low-Income Adolescent Mothers: The Epidemiology of an Unrecognized Epidemic" Paper Presentation, Society for Social Work and Research 20th Annual Conference, Washington, DC. 2016.

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