Yale Kid Research Study Center (YCSC) Assistant Medical Teacher of Social Work Carrie Epstein, LCSW-R has actually been named Co-Director of the YCSC Center for Distressing Tension and Healing (previously the Youth Violent Injury Center, CVTC), together with Steven Marans, PhD The Center just recently got a 5-year, $3 million Drug abuse and Mental Health Solutions Administration (SAMHSA) award to support the ongoing training and dissemination of the Kid and Household Distressing Tension Intervention (CFTSI) in your area, nationally, and globally.
Epstein has actually been a YCSC professor given that 2010, functioning as the CVTC Director of Medical Solutions and Training. For over thirty years, she has actually offered psychological health treatment, guidance, and associated assessment concentrated on carrying out treatment and program advancement for kids and households affected by injury and terrible sorrow. She is acknowledged both nationally and globally as a professional in training and consulting in the field of kid injury and catastrophe reaction.
Epstein is the co-developer of CFTSI, which is presently the only evidence-based trauma-focused psychological health treatment for kids and households that was particularly established to be carried out in the peritraumatic stage of injury reaction. CFTSI has actually shown efficiency in minimizing and disrupting PTSD and associated conditions. She is likewise a Master Fitness instructor in both the CFTSI treatment design, along with in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Modification (TF-CBT).
Critical in establishing and supervising nationwide training efforts and nationwide knowing collaboratives concentrated on the dissemination of kid trauma-focused evidence-based treatment designs, Epstein offers training and scientific guidance on kid trauma-focused evidence-based practices in your area, nationally, and globally. She has actually likewise reacted to numerous mass casualty catastrophes around the nation. She acted as a crucial organizer of New York City’s psychological health reaction to the attacks on 9/11 and was a Principal Detective of a collective, multi-site research study that was the biggest youth injury task related to the September 11 th terrorist attack in New York City which was developed to provide evidence-based injury treatments for affected kids and teenagers.
In addition, Epstein worked together with Marans and Steven Southwick, MD to collaborate Yale’s reaction to the Sandy Hook Primary school disaster in Newtown. She has actually co-authored various publications in assistance of her injury activities. Epstein was the one of the initial and arranging Principal Detectives of the National Kid Distressing Tension Network (NCTSN) and has actually continued to Co-Chair the NCTSN’s Kid Traumatic Grief-Traumatic Separation Committee given that its beginning in 2001. She has actually served on the Steering Committee of the NCTSN, along with serve as a routine factor to the NCTSN’s Terrorism and Catastrophe Action Committee.
Prior to her position at the YCSC, Epstein was Senior Director of Kid Injury Programs at Safe Horizon in New York City, the biggest victim support, victim advocacy company in the nation, where she managed scientific services for kids and households affected by injury in the company’s outpatient programs, domestic violence shelters, and Kid Advocacy Centers. Throughout her period at Safe Horizon, she served on the Scientific Board Of Advisers of the Evidence-based Treatment Dissemination Center of the New York State Workplace of Mental Health.