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Vanya Hamrin holds an Masters in Science in child and adolescent psychiatric nursing from the University of Illinois. Vanya has worked for 15 years as a child and adolescent clinical nurse specialist. Vanya has been on the Yale faculty for 5 years. Prior to that Vanya worked at Children's Memorial Hospital as a psychiatric consultation liaison to children and adolescents on the medical units and a nurse manager of a child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit. Vanya has also worked in a psychiatric private practice.
Vanya received a Prince award for her research on acute stress disorder in gun injured youth. Vanya also received a research award at the ISPN conference for her research on support groups for graduate nursing students.
Vanya is the Connecticut co-chair of the Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing.
Vanya completed 2 research studies evaluating acute stress disorder in the pediatric gun shot injured population. Vanya is currently a co-investigator on the intervention study evaluating the effectiveness of parent management training on decreasing oppositional behaviors in children with Tourette's syndrome.
Vanya also evaluated the effectiveness of peer led GEPN support groups to decrease anxiety and teach group leadership skills to graduate student nurses.
Vanya has a joint appointment at West Haven Mental Health Center. Vanya provides individual, family and group therapies as well as psychopharmacological management to children and adolescents. Vanya developed an anger management group for adolescents as well as coordinates several parenting groups.
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