Training child serving professionals to identify and respond effectively to child trauma: Evaluation findings from the University of Massachusetts Medical School's Child Trauma Training Center

Zlatina Kostova

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Zlatina Kostova, PhD is a third year Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.  With a strikingly multidisciplinary and multicultural education obtained in Bulgaria, Italy, Switzerland and the US, she has a strong background in clinical psychology and her main interests lie in the area of adolescent psychology and trauma studies. Dr. Kostova's post-doctoral appointment at UMass involves clinical training alongside work on several clinically-focused research projects. She is collaborating with the Child Trauma Training Center at UMass, working on a SAMHSA-funded project aimed at improving the identification of trauma and to increase trauma-sensitive care and access to evidence based trauma treatment for at risk and under-served populations of local children and families. She is also involved in an NIH-funded project in the field of eMental Health for people with severe mental illnesses, and has implemented Mindfulness-based interventions in an in-patient residential facility for youths with complex trauma.

Abstract

Introduction: Childhood trauma is a global healthcare crisis with two thirds of children reporting exposure to traumatic events. Trauma triggers a plethora of negative mental health and functional outcomes during adolescence... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Jessica Griffin (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
  2. Genevieve Kane-Howse (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
  3. Heather Forkey (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
  4. Zlatina Kostova (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
  5. Jessica Bartlett (University of Massachusetts Medical School)

Topic Area

Training Professionals and Education of children and families

Session

Oral 11 » Session 3-Training Professionals (16:15 - Monday, 2nd October, Europe 1 Room)

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