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Joy D. Osofsky, PhD, the Paul J. Ramsay Chair of Psychiatry
and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Louisiana State
University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) in New Orleans is both a
clinical and developmental psychologist. She is Director of the
LSUHSC Harris Center for Infant Mental Health. Among her scholarly
achievements, Dr. Osofsky has written or edited 9 books including
the Handbook of Infant Development and Clinical Work
withTraumatized Young Children and is co-editor of the WAIMH
Handbook of Infant Mental Health. Dr. Osofsky is past president of
Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families
and the World Association for Infant Mental Health. In 2016, she
wrote the first chapter on Infant Mental Health in the Handbook of
Clinical Psychology. She has played a leadership role in the Gulf
Region in developing response and recovery efforts following
Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In 2007, Dr.
Osofsky received the Sarah Haley Award for Clinical Excellence for
trauma work from the International Society for Traumatic Stress
Studies. In 2010, Dr. Osofsky was honored with a Presidential
Commendation from the American Psychiatric Association for her work
in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Osofsky was recognized
with the Reginald Lourie Award for leadership in the field of
infant mental health and outstanding contributions to the health
and welfare of children and families in 2014. She does research,
intervention, and clinical work with infants, children, and
families exposed to community and domestic violence, maltreatment,
trauma, and disasters and is the clinical consultant for Safe
Babies Court Teams for Zero to Three. Dr. Osofsky is currently
Co-Principal Investigator for the Terrorism and Disaster Coalition
for Child and Family Resilience, a National Child Traumatic Stress
Network Center funding by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration. She serves a key role in helping state and
national legislators and policy makers understand the behavioral
health needs of children, especially young children.
Phillip T. Stepka, PsyD, is an Assistant Professor of
Clinical Psychiatry at LSUHSC and serves as teaching faculty for
the Harris Center for Infant Mental Health at LSUHSC. His interests
include trauma throughout the lifespan, child maltreatment, infant
mental health, fetal alcohol effects/syndrome, pervasive
developmental disorders, sexual abuse and sexual behavior problems,
and risk and resiliency factors in military families. Dr. Stepka
serves as Project Coordinator for the LSUHSC site for the SAMSHA
funded Early Trauma Treatment Network (ETTN), a center in the
National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). He is a
Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) National Trainer and consults on
adaptations of other evidence-based practices for young children
across the country. Dr. Stepka provides evaluative, therapeutic,
and consultation services to military children, their families, and
educators at the Belle Chasse Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base
in South Louisiana. He also collaborates with the military’s Family
Advocacy Program (FAP) in developing and implementing
resilience-building interventions for young children with deployed
caregivers and providing multi-disciplinary treatment to military
families impacted by abuse, neglect, and domestic violence.
Lucy S. King, BA, is currently a PhD student in the
Department of Psychology at Stanford University, where she studies
the impact of environmental adversity on psychobiological
development from the first months of life through adolescence. Her
areas of interest include novel methods for measuring positive and
negative aspects of the early environment and the effects of
caregiving behavior on the development of stress response systems.
She has previously held research positions in the Department of
Psychiatry at Boston Children’s Hospital and at Louisiana State
University Health Sciences Center. Ms. King has published and
presented peer-reviewed research clarifying the associations
between caregiving, early stress exposure, and biological
reactivity and regulation in infancy and childhood. She has also
conducted research on developmental psychopathology in children and
adolescents exposed to natural and technological disasters. She is
the recipient of a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National
Science Foundation.
“Especially useful to clinicians and clinicians in training who serve parents and very young children affected by trauma.” —PsycCRITIQUES
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