Dr. DiFrancesco is a Clinical Psychologist for the Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP) in the Department of Pediatrics at Montefiore Medical Center. Dr. DiFrancesco has extensive experience providing evidence-based treatment to children, adolescents, young adults and their families with anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders as well as ADHD, traumatic stress, behavioral concerns, and parent-child relational issues. Dr. DiFrancesco attended Purchase College, State University of New York where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts followed by his Master of Science from Pace University. He then obtained his Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology from Albizu University in Miami, Florida. Prior to completing his doctoral training, Dr. DiFrancesco provided multidimensional family therapy (MDFT); an evidence-based treatment for adolescents and young adults with substance use and family relational problems through a collaboration with MDFT international & University of Miami/Miller School of Medicine. Dr. DiFrancesco completed his pre-doctoral internship in clinical, behavioral health psychology from Astor Services for Children and Families followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Liddle, H.A., Dakof, G., Rowe, C, Mohamed, A.B., Henderson, C., Foulkrod, T., Lucas, M., & DiFrancesco, M.D. (2023). Multidimensional family therapy for justice-involved young adults with substance-use disorders. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 1-14. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11414-023-09852-5

DiFrancesco, M.D., & Rodriguez, D.A. (2014). The importance of developing rapport when attempting to treat an oppositional-defiant, teenage soiler in a residential setting. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 62(3), NP1-NP3. http://doi.org/10.1177/0003065114538095