The Child & Family Center - Easton

Dr. Adeline Tryon is the owner/founder of The Child & Family Center for Psychological Evaluation and Treatment. As a licensed psychologist with a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology, Dr. Tryon uses a cognitive-behavioral approach to provide state-of-the-art psychological treatment to children, adults, and families; consultation with area pediatricians, schools and universities, and agencies serving developmentally delayed and autistic individuals; clinical supervision to colleagues; and, expert witness services for various family practice attorneys. Dr. Tryon has been licensed since 1993 as a psychologist by the Maryland Board of Examiners for Psychologists.

Dr. Tryon enjoys working with people of all ages. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Tryon has developed several specialties that include anxiety, depression and problems of attention in children, teen-agers, college students and adults, adjustment issues, family transitions (such as divorce, remarriage, and relocation), bipolar disorder, autism and related developmental disorders. Dr. Tryon is a seasoned liaison helping families navigate school challenges.

Dr. Tryon earned her bachelor’s of arts degree in psychology at Scripps College in Claremont California where she began her work with autistic children and earned the Most Outstanding Thesis Award for her research in the treatment of young autistic children in 1982. She earned her Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the APA-approved clinical psychology program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. While at UNC-G, Tryon continued an active research career in the social development of children and the treatment of autistic children

Dr. Tryon completed her Ph.D. after her APA-approved Child Clinical Internship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY. While interning, she furthered her research and clinical expertise in behavioral family training. After serving as the Director of research-based communication skills training program for Level 5 high school students in the Bronx, New York, Tryon moved to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. While at UVA, Dr. Tryon served as a Senior Research Scientist for Dr. E. Mavis Hetherington working on Hetherington’s renowned longitudinal study of divorce and its effects on family members.

In 1989, Dr. Tryon moved to Salisbury, Maryland to begin a faculty appointment in psychology at Salisbury State University (now Salisbury University). She soon opened a small private practice for children and families. After earning Tenure and promotion at the University, and serving as Director of Graduate Studies in Psychology, Tryon decided to leave the University and devote her full-time energy to her private practice. Dr. Tryon continues to be active in teaching, mentoring, and consulting through her private practice, The Child & Family Center.