Creating Healing School Communities: School-Based Interventions for Students Exposed to Trauma (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781433828621)

Tali Raviv, PhD, is a clinical psychologist at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and an assistant professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is part of the Center for Childhood Resilience at Lurie Children's whose mission is to increase access to high quality mental health services for youth affected by poverty, trauma, and violence through providing training and technical assistance to school- and community-based clinicians as well as educators and other youth-serving organizations. Dr. Raviv has trained hundreds of clinicians in school-based interventions to trauma, including Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) and Bounce Back, and hundreds of educators and community members on the impact that trauma has on students' learning and emotional and behavioral health. She has also worked directly with multiple schools on the creation and implementation of Behavioral Health Teams, school-based teams that meet to address the needs of at-risk students, including those affected by exposure to violence and trauma. She provides direct clinical services to youth and families exposed to trauma through her work on the Trauma Treatment Service at Lurie Children's Hospital and participates in advocacy initiatives through membership in the Illinois Child Trauma Coalition and her role on the Steering Committee of the PATHH Collaborative of the Chicago Children's Advocacy Center. Dr. Raviv received her bachelor of arts degree from Emory University and a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from University of Denver.

Lisa H. Jaycox, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. Dr. Jaycox's work focuses on the mental health consequences of stress and trauma and on interventions that facilitate recovery. She has worked on the development and implementation of the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) program and related interventions (Support for Students Exposed to Trauma, Bounce Back, Life Improvement for Teens) for more than 15 years, and she has conducted research on stress and a broad range of traumatic events in children and adults. After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, she developed a toolkit for schools that described trauma-focused school interventions. Dr. Jaycox received her bachelor of arts degree from Brown University and her doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania.