Treatment Trainers:
Laura Murray, Ph.D., Treatment Trainer for Drs. Cohen and Mannarino's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) study, has conducted numerous trainings on TF-CBT, AF-CBT and TF-CBT-CTG, both nationally and internationally. Dr. Murray has extensive experience in training therapists of diverse cultural backgrounds to implement, adopt, and adapt Drs. Cohen and Mannarino's models for children and families in community settings. She has and continues to provide extensive international training and direct clinical care in Africa, Romania, and for the World Health Organization/World Psychiatric Association.
Esther Deblinger, Ph.D. is a widely respected researcher at the New Jersey CARES Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey, who, with Drs. Cohen and Mannarino, developed, standardized and evaluated the TF-CBT model over the past 20 years. Together they conducted the largest randomized controlled trial ever published with traumatized children, which was the first to demonstrate the efficacy of any treatment model for multiple traumatized children. Dr. Deblinger has published extensively on this subject and has delivered numerous local and regional presentations on TF-CBT.
Amy Hoch, Psy.D. is a psychologist licensed in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who is currently Program Development Specialist at the University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey's CARES Institute where she specializes in working with children and famlies who have experienced sexual abuse and other traumas. She also provides community education and professional workshops on such topics as identification and treatment of sexual abuse, dissociation, postraumatic stress disorder, dating violence, and sexual assault.
Current and Upcoming Events:
February 25-26, 2010: Richter Conference, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
Judith Cohen, M.D. will be presenting "Stress Response Syndromes in Children and Adolescents."
March 1-4, 2010: NCTSN All Network Meeting, New Orleans, LA
Judith Cohen, M.D., Anthony Mannarino, Ph.D., and Faith O'Shea, B.S. will once again participate, as well as present, at this annual meeting. As the name of the meeting implies, this is a collaboration among the NCTSN's nationwide network of nearly 100 centers, which work together to advance the understanding and treatment of child traumatic stress. The theme for the 2010 meeting is "Building Trauma-Informed Child Service Systems: Strengthening the Foundations of Public Health.”
March 4-7, 2010: ADAA Conference, Baltimore, MD
The 30th Annual Conference of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA) will focus on improving the diagnosis and treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Judith Cohen, M.D. will present "Treating PTSD in Children Exposed to Violence" as well as conduct a three hour training on treating PTSD in children and adolescents.
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