Eric Arden Youngstrom is an American clinical child and adolescent psychologist, professor of psychology and neuroscience, and psychiatry, at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[6] Youngstrom was the inaugural recipient of the Early Career Award from the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.

[10] He was president of the Society of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology.

[12][13] Youngstrom consulted on the fifth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5).

[14] He chairs the Work Group on Child Diagnosis for the International Society for Bipolar Disorders.