Kenneth Schuster, PsyD

Kenneth Schuster, PsyD, is an Assistant Clinical Director and a senior neuropsychologist in the Gund Learning and Diagnostic Center as well as the Director of Training Curriculum Development for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Child Mind Institute.

Dr. Schuster has been in practice at the Child Mind Institute since 2012. He has extensive experience conducting diagnostic evaluations, as well as neuropsychological, developmental, educational, and personality assessments in children as young as 18 months and across the life span. He specializes in evaluating and working with individuals struggling with issues related to ADHD, autism, and learning disorders. He also provides individual organizational skills support and writing remediation.

As the Director of Clinical Training since 2017, Dr. Schuster has worked to expand the training opportunities offered at the Child Mind Institute. As Director of Training Curriculum Development, Dr. Schuster is involved with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Initiative (CAMHI), a nationwide mental health capacity-building program in Greece, exclusively supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Through this work, he has co-led the development of several training programs, including mental health literacy training and mental health screening training, as well as the creation of comprehensive public education materials for the CAMHI website. Dr. Schuster has also been a collaborator on several published papers reporting the progress of these programs. Now, in the SNF Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Child Mind Institute, he continues to contribute to the development of new programs and partnerships with international collaborators.

Dr. Schuster is also an active speaker. He leads several parenting workshops and presents on a range of topics at schools and professional conferences. As a former middle school teacher, Dr. Schuster saw firsthand how psychiatric and learning disorders can be barriers to school success, motivating him to become a clinical psychologist. His experience in the classroom enables him to effectively translate test results into reports that provide children, parents, and teachers with practical, realistic, and individualized home- and school-based interventions and services.

• Licensed psychologist in New York and New Jersey
• Certified New Jersey public school teacher
• Tenured middle school teacher in the Elizabeth, NJ, public school system

• Post-doctoral Fellow, Clinical Neuropsychology, Child Mind Institute
• Clinical Intern, Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and Hassenfeld Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, NYU Langone Medical Center
• Clinical Extern, Jacobi Medical Center
• Clinical Extern, New York-Presbyterian Weill-Cornell Medical Center
• School Extern, New Rochelle public school system

• PsyD, Clinical-School Child Psychology, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University
• MS, School Psychology, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University
• MA, Music Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
• BM, Music Education, the College of New Jersey