Patricia Resick

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Patricia A. Resick is an American researcher in the field of post traumatic stress disorder. She is known for developing cognitive processing therapy.

Biography[]

After earning her doctorate from the University of Georgia,{August, 1976} Resick served as Assistant to Associate Professor at the University of South Dakota, 1976-1980 and Associate to Full Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1981-2003, while in Saint Louis she developed the Center for Trauma Recovery and was awarded an endowed Curators' Professorship in 2000. [1]

She developed cognitive processing therapy (CPT) in 1988 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where she conducted an open trial, the first treatment manual and a randomized controlled trial. She has subsequently worked with Candice M. Monson and Kathleen M. Chard among others to refine and further test the approach.[2] [3]

In 2003 she moved to Boston as Director of the Women’s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for PTSD at the VA Boston Healthcare System, which she held for a decade. Also in 2004, she became a professor of psychiatry at Boston University. In 2006 she initiated a program to disseminate CPT throughout the VA.[4]

Resick was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy from 1992-1995 and President of what was renamed to the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) in 2003-2004. She also served on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies from 1997-2003. In 2009 she was elected president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

In 2013, she moved to Duke University in Durham. [5] She is currently the Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center, and a member of the American Board of Professional Psychology.

Resick was an Associate Editor for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.[6] She was on two sub-workgroups for the DSM-5.[7]

Resick has published over 300 articles and chapters and 10 books.[8]

Honors[]

  • Robert S. Laufer Memorial Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in the field of traumatic stress from the ISTSS
  • 2003-2004, she was President of the (ABCT
  • 2009, president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
  • 2009 Leadership Award by the Association for VA Psychologist Leaders.
  • 2012 Outstanding Contributions by an Individual for Educational/Training Activities presented by the ABCT.[9]
  • 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award from Division 56 (Trauma Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.[10]
  • 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies.


References[]

  1. ^ https://www.istss.org/am19/keynote-addresses.aspx
  2. ^ https://cptforptsd.com/about-us/
  3. ^ https://scholars.duke.edu/person/patricia.resick
  4. ^ https://scholars.duke.edu/person/patricia.resick
  5. ^ https://www.apa.org/about/awards/div-56-lifetime.aspx
  6. ^ http://mghcme.org/faculty/faculty-detail/patricia_resick
  7. ^ https://cptforptsd.com/about-us/
  8. ^ https://www.istss.org/am19/keynote-addresses.aspx
  9. ^ https://psychiatry.duke.edu/resick-patricia
  10. ^ https://www.guilford.com/author/Patricia-A-Resick


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