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Compass Young Adult Program
Program Leaders
Flynn O'Malley, PhD
Director, Compass Young Adult Program, Associate Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. O’Malley has more than 26 years of experience at The Menninger Clinic. Throughout his career at Menninger, Dr. O’Malley has held a number of administrative posts and directed various clinical programs. Most recently, he was clinical director for the Adolescent Treatment Program.
Since he joined Menninger in 1981, Dr. O’Malley has been significantly involved in the diagnosis and treatment of troubled young people. He specializes in trauma, anxiety and depression; developmental and behavioral issues; suicide and self-harm prevention and treatment; sexual and gender issues; and diagnosis and treatment of complex psychiatric disorders.
As director for the Compass Program, he has overall responsibility for the clinical, programmatic and administrative aspects of the program. In addition, he provides such services as group and individual therapy, counsultations and psychological evaluations.
A teacher as well as a clinician, he was a faculty member of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry & Mental Health Sciences for 18 years. In 1993, he was honored as the John H. Scudder Supervisor. In 2001, Dr. O’Malley was awarded the Barbara Davis Spencer Professorship. He continues to provide supervision and teaching for professionals in training at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine.
The author of a number of professional papers and a frequent presenter at professional conferences, Dr. O’Malley’s current interests include the process of mentalizing and its role in identifying and treating core issues, the psychotherapy of young people and other issues in specialty inpatient diagnosis and treatment. Recent papers include “Contemporary Issues in the Psychiatric Treatment of Disturbed Adolescents” (2004) and “Mentalizing in the Psychotherapy of a Disturbed Adolescent Girl” (2003).
Dr. O’Malley completed his postdoctoral psychology fellowship at The University of Texas Medical Branch, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Galveston, Texas. He received his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of New Mexico. He is also a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in clinical psychology.
Christopher D. Martin, MD
Christoph er D. Martin, MD, is the medical director of the Compass Young Adult Program. Medical Director, Compass Young Adult Program, The Menninger Clinic; Assistant Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr. Martin leads a multidisciplinary treatment team for the Compass Program. He and his treatment team assess and treat young adults from 18 to 30 who have major psychiatric disorders that may be complicated by chemical dependency or a personality disorder.
As a psychiatrist, he said, he receives satisfaction from getting to know patients who trust him enough to share private thoughts they tell no one else. What also satisfies him is knowing that most patients leave Menninger in far better shape than when they arrived. And it’s not just Menninger patients who benefit from successful care, but so do their family members and friends and society in general.
“One of the things that’s important to me,” he said, “is that when we treat a psychiatric patient and help them recover the impact is, I think, many times much wider than we know. For example, someone who is able to recover from depression, that person is able to be a better parent, a better spouse, be better at their job. We improve their functioning so they are able to do so much more in their lives. The impact of a depressed parent on a child is extremely severe, so to be able to help a patient recover is a big deal.”
In addition to his duties on Compass, Dr. Martin has a significant teaching schedule at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Menninger’s collaborator and affiliate. Baylor medical students as well as psychiatry students in their second and fourth years receive on-site training at The Menninger Clinic, or at a number of other collaborative venues. Dr. Martin teaches physicians who are on a track toward becoming psychiatrists and he also teaches medical students who have not yet chosen a path for their careers.
After graduating from Trinity University with a bachelor’s degree in English, Dr. Martin received his medical training at Baylor College of Medicine and his psychiatric training through the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Baylor College of Medicine. He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
During his training he was chief resident and received several awards that include the Eugene Kahn Award for Excellence in Psychiatry, 2005; The Menninger Department of Psychiatry Resident Teacher Award, 2005; the Janssen Psychiatry Resident Excellence Award, 2003; and the Hilde Bruch Award for Excellence in Psychiatry, 2001.
Dr. Martin is active in the Association for Academic Psychiatry; the Houston Psychiatric Society; the Texas Society for Psychiatric Physicians; the American Psychiatric Association; the American Medical Association; and the Texas Medical Association.
Dr. Martin’s areas of academic and clinical interest include bipolar affective disorders, borderline personality disorder, substance related disorders, combination treatment with psychopharmacologic and psychodynamic treatment modalities, and the interface between culture and psychiatry.
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