Past Projects

Trauma Recovery ECHO Clinic

Project ECHO is a tele-mentoring model, allowing for the sharing of expert knowledge through case-based learning. We offered a free, twice monthly training (from July- December 2021) on Tuesdays…

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Preventing HIV among Native Americans through the Treatment of PTSD and Substance Use

Built on an 8-year community-based participatory partnership, in full collaboration with the Tribal Nation, this study is a 5-year two-arm randomized comparative effectiveness trial…

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BRITE – Brief Restructuring Intervention after Trauma Exposure

Following sexual assault a substantial number of victims will go on to develop psychopathology, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or alcohol use disorders…

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Integrated Mental Health: IPE Infrastructure Development in DNP Education

The purpose of this project is to establish and evaluate an Inter-professional Educational environments (IPE) infrastructure designed in concert with a newly revised UW…

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Short Term Exposure for PTSD (STEP)

This project is designed to integrate basic and clinical science to translate mechanisms of recovery from PTSD to testing an intervention in individuals with…

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Sacred Journey: Transcending Trauma, Substance Use and STI Risks Toward

A 3-year project to culturally adapt and pilot an empirically supported trauma-focused treatment, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD, substance use and HIV/STI sexual…

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Optimizing PTSD Treatment

The project focused on individualizing PTSD care across key parameters: choice of treatment, combined psychotherapy and pharmacological treatment, and the presence of co-occurring major…

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Special Programs to Address the Needs of Survivors

The program goals were to (1) improve specific programs funded by the Victims of Torture Program; (2) transfer capacity to VTF partners to use…

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NarXii – Residence XII

The overall goal of this study was to examine emotional engagement with the trauma memory during treatment for AUD as a predictor of decreased…

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