Working With Developmental Trauma

Julian D. Ford, PhD, is a board-certified clinical psychologist and tenured professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and School of Law where he is the principal investigator and director of two treatment and services adaptation centers in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, the Center for Trauma Recovery and Juvenile Justice and the Center for the Treatment of Developmental Trauma Disorders. Dr. Ford is the president-elect of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and has served two terms on the Society's board of directors and as the vice president and secretary. He serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation and European Journal of Psychotraumatology and as chair of the APA Division of Trauma Psychology Presidential Task Force on Child Trauma. Dr. Ford has published more than 250 articles and book chapters and is the author or editor of 10 books, including Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, 2nd Edition, Treating Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach and Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Scientific Foundations and Therapeutic Models. Dr. Ford is the principal investigator for the national Developmental Trauma Disorder Field trial research study. He has developed and conducted randomized clinical trial and effectiveness studies with the Trauma Affect Regulation: Guide for Education and Therapy model for youths and adults with developmental trauma histories and complex PTSD.