Patricia Resick

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

Biography

After earning her doctorate from the University of Georgia, she served as Assistant Associate Professor at the University of South Dakota, and Associate Full Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

She began developing cognitive processing therapy (CPT) in 1988 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she founded the Center for Trauma Recovery and was an Endowed Professor, and subsequently has worked with Candice M. Monson and Kathleen M. Chard to refine and further test the approach. She was awarded an endowed professorship at the university in 2000.

In 2003 she moved to Boston and became 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 2003, she also become Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University. In 2003-2004, she was President of the ABCT. In 2006 she initiated a program to disseminate CPT throughout the VA.

In 2009 she was the President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and was on the Board of Directors for nine years. In 2009 she also won the Leadership Award by the Association for VA Psychologist Leaders. She won the 2012 Outstanding Contributions by an Individual for Educational/Training Activities presented by the ABCT.

In 2013, she moved to Durham and joined Duke University. In 2013 she also won and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Division 56 of APA. 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 is past president of both the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) and the Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).

Resick has served on the editorial boards of nine scientific journals and was an Associate Editor for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. She was on two sub-workgroups for the DSM-5.

Resick has received grants from various United States government bodies (the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Centres for Disease Control (CDC), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and United States Department of Defence (DoD)) to provide services and conduct research on the effects of traumatic events, particularly on women, and to develop and test therapeutic interventions for PTSD. Professor Resick’s research has been continuously funded for 40 years; she has published over 300 articles and chapters and 10 books.

She is a recipient of the Robert S. Laufer Memorial Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in the field of traumatic stress from the ISTSS, the Leadership Award from the Association of VA Psychologist Leaders, the Outstanding Contribution by an Individual for Educational/Training Award from the ABCT, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Division 56 (Trauma Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.

External links

• CPT for PTSD
• Duke University School of Medicine
• Dr. Patricia Resick on Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD video