Patricia A. Resick Ph.D., ABPP

Patricia A. Resick, Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center and Adjunct Professor, Medical University of South Carolina. After graduating with her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Georgia, Dr. Resick served as an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of South Dakota. She also served as Associate to Full Professor at the University of Missouri- St. Louis and was awarded an endowed professorship, Curator’s Professor in 2000. During that period, she also developed and was the Director of the Center for Trauma Recovery. In 2003, Dr. Resick became the Director of the Women’s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare system and Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University. In 2013, she moved to Duke University. Dr. Resick’s specialty is in understanding and treating the effects of traumatic events, particularly posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In 1988, she developed Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD, a short evidence-based treatment and has overseen multiple clinical trials. The treatment manual for CPT has been translated into 15 languages and has been formally disseminated throughout the VA and other veterans’ services in the U.S., Australia, and Canada as well as civilian training initiatives in the U.S. CPT is considered a first line therapy for PTSD. Dr. Resick’s research has been continuously funded for over 40 years; she has published more than 350 articles and chapters and 12 books on PTSD including the newly published self-help book Getting Unstuck from PTSD: Using Cognitive Processing Therapy to Guide Your Recovery and has just completed a second edition of the best-selling treatment manual Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: A Comprehensive Manual. Dr. Resick has served as the President of both the International Society for Traumatic Stress and the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. She has won multiple research and mentoring awards as well as Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Trauma Division (56) of the American Psychological Association, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.