Newswise — The following Teachers College, Columbia University, faculty members are available to respond to queries about bereavement, resilience, and post-traumatic stress disorder in relation to the recent school shootings.
George Bonanno, PhD., Associate Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, has recently completed a 5-year comparative study of coping with the death of a child or a spouse (funded by the National Institute of Health), a multi-dimensional study of emotion regulation, stressful life events, resilience, and adjustment among college students, a study of emotion and well-being among survivors of childhood sexual abuse(in collaboration with researchers at NIH), and several recent studies of resilience and adjustment in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks in New York City (funded by the National Science Foundation). An extensive list of his published works can be found at :http://faculty.tc.columbia.edu/upload/gab38/Publications_3-6-06.doc
Philip A. Saigh, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has worked with traumatized children, adolescents and adults since 1977. His research interests involve the epidemiology, etiology, assessment, and cognitive-behavioral treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents. He interests also involve test development and childhood psychopathology. He is currently investigating the relationship between trauma exposure, PTSD, and cognitive functioning. Professor Saigh was the first investigator to demonstrate the efficacy of imaginal exposure in the treatment of children and adolescents with PTSD. He developed validated the Children's PTSD Inventory and nine additional tests. His books include Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Theory Research and Treatment and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Comprehensive Text (with D. J. Bremner, M.D.). Professor Saigh is the current President of the Academy for Research on Traumatic Stress. He also is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association's Divisions of Clinical Psychology and School Psychology. He teaches courses involving behavior therapy, developmental psychopathology, child-adolescent PTSD and related disorders, and classroom behavior management. More of his published works are listed at:http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/about.htm?facID=ps2121&page=principal+publications
Teachers College is the largest graduate school of education in the nation. Teachers College is affiliated with Columbia University, but it is legally and financially independent. The editors of U.S. News and World Report have ranked Teachers College as one of the leading graduate schools of education in the country.
For more information, please visit the college's Web site at http://www.tc.columbia.edu.
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