CEO Clinical Psychologist, Ph.D.Fellow and Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic StressDr. Bove is a Licensed New York State Psychologist with a Doctorate in Clinical and School Psychology who has been in private practice for over 20 years. She is a Fellow and Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. She has taught psychology at Wagner College and as a Graduate Faculty member of Capella, a web-based University. She chaired the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee and was member of the Committees on Privileging and Supervision of Psychologists in a ...

Clinical Psychologist with Sound Pain AllianceDr. Patrick De Marco is a Licensed Psychologist in the State of Colorado and in the State of Washington where he is now practicing. He has over 43 years of experience in Disaster Response. He helped form and command Disaster Medical Assistance Team of California #3 under the National Disaster Medical System. This was the first rapid deployment mental health team for the Federal Government. He spent 9 years as the Senior Mental Health Officer for the National Medical Response Team- Central U.S. This is a team who specializes in medical response to ...

President/Founder of Under the Shield, Inc.Certified in Forensic HypnosisExpert in Law Enforcement and Aviation Stress ManagementSusan Lewis Simons has provided training seminars and programs since 1994 for various state, local and federal law enforcement agencies focusing on stress management and critical incident response and reactions. She is serving as a critical incident responder for agencies in Alabama and across the United States. She also provided training for the United States Air Force Europe in Germany and England. Susan served as a Consulting Clinician for 5 weeks in New York ...

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QPR Master Trainer (Suicide Awareness and Prevention)Crisis Interventionist, Critical Incident Stress Trainer with International Critical Incident Stress FoundationP.O.S.T. Certified Law Enforcement Officer, Federal and Local Law Enforcement and Fire ChaplainConsultant and Traumatic Stress educatorDr. Bart J. Leger has been helping people recover from trauma related crisis through counseling and education for the past 30 years. He has served various churches in Alabama and Louisiana, spent many years in the business sector and for the last 18 years has served in fire services and law ...

Clinical Professor, Emergency Health Services, University of MarylandPresident Emeritus, International Critical Incident Stress FoundationMember, United Nations Department of Safety and Security Stress Working GroupJeffrey T. Mitchell, Ph.D., is a Clinical Professor of Emergency, Health Services at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County, Maryland and President Emeritus of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. He taught elementary school science for three years. He earned his Ph.D. in Human Development from the University of Maryland. After serving as a firefighter ...

Manager of Consultant Relations and Training, Crisis Care Network, Grand Rapids, MICEO Kantu Consultants, Grand Rapids, MI www.Kantu.orgDennis Potter is a licensed social worker who helped to form one of the first community-based Crisis Response Teams in Michigan. Dennis was also one of the founding members of the Mid-West Michigan CISM Team and the Michigan Crisis Response Association. Dennis is recognized at the highest level of Expert by the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. Since 1989, Dennis has helped to train many of the Critical Incident Response teams in Michigan and ...

Addiction SpecialistFellow-American Academy of Experts in Traumatic StressCertified Educator and Therapist in Compassion FatigueDonna McCarten White is the Addiction Specialist for the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, a Public Health Hospital for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Her immediate previous position was former Program Director for the Commonwealth Research and Evaluation Unit--a conjoined program between the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and Harvard University. She is the former Chief Operating Officer and Nurse Executive at Worcester State Hospital, the oldest publicly ...

Dr. Villena-Mata sawsimilarities between recipients of "isms" with adult children of childhood abuse and other individual adverse situations. As there were no existing research in this area at that time, Darling went to graduate school to find out more. The result was her dissertation, which has since been translated into a layperson's version, accessible to clinicians, trainers, academicians, and clients alike. In the latest edition (fourth), the book expands on the connection of both macro and micro traumas and avenues of healing: how one affects the other, as well as the similarities of ...