Lindsey Bruett, PhD

HS Assoc Clinical Professor
Psychiatry

Lindsey Bruett, PhD is a licensed psychologist and Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She leads the Eating Disorders Program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG), which serves patients and families with Medicaid insurance, and is a faculty member with the UCSF Health Eating Disorders Program. She is the Adolescent Mental Health Training Lead at ZSFG and an Associate Program Director for the UCSF Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program. Her clinical work and teaching is focused on delivering evidence-based treatments for eating disorders and comorbid conditions to adolescents and their families, and she conducts research that informs the clinical care of child and adolescent psychopathology.  In addition to eating disorders, she has expertise in anxiety, depression, trauma, OCD, suicide and self-harm, gender diversity, and behavioral parent training. 

Publications: 

Examining clinicians' perceptions and experiences working with diverse families in family-based treatment: Common adaptations and considerations for treatment engagement.

The International journal of eating disorders

Dimitropoulos G, Singh M, Sauerwein J, Pedram P, Kimber M, Pradel M, Eckhardt S, Forsberg S, Keery H, Allan E, Bruett L, Le Grange D

An exploration of the association between premorbid weight status on patient and caregiver factors at pre and post-treatment among youth with anorexia nervosa/atypical anorexia nervosa.

Eating behaviors

Kramer R, Radin R, Forsberg S, Garber AK, Reilly EE, Hail L, Huryk KM, Keyser J, Bruett LD, Le Grange D, Gorrell S, Accurso EC

Development of evidence-informed bridge programming to support an increased need for eating disorder services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Journal of eating disorders

Bruett LD, Forsberg S, Accurso EC, Gorrell S, Hail L, Keyser J, Le Grange D, Huryk KM

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) and Body Image: a case report.

Journal of eating disorders

Barney A, Bruett LD, Forsberg S, Nagata JM

Rituals and preoccupations associated with bulimia nervosa in adolescents: Does motivation to change matter?

European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association

Gorrell S, Kinasz K, Hail L, Bruett L, Forsberg S, Lock J, Le Grange D

A test of the DSM-5 severity specifier for bulimia nervosa in adolescents: Can we anticipate clinical treatment outcomes?

The International journal of eating disorders

Gorrell S, Hail L, Kinasz K, Bruett L, Forsberg S, Delucchi K, Lock J, Le Grange D

Psychopathology in adolescent offspring of parents with panic disorder, major depression, or both: a 10-year follow-up.

The American journal of psychiatry

Hirshfeld-Becker DR, Micco JA, Henin A, Petty C, Faraone SV, Mazursky H, Bruett L, Rosenbaum JF, Biederman J

Applying cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety to the younger child.

Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America

Hirshfeld-Becker DR, Micco JA, Mazursky H, Bruett L, Henin A