PTSD 101 Presenter: Josef I. Ruzek, PhD

National Center for PTSD

Joe Ruzek received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a psychologist with the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, where he is the Director of the Dissemination and Training Division of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

He is involved in treatment of veterans with chronic combat-related PTSD, and is responsible for education of those treating PTSD in the nationwide VA Health Care System. He is an editor of the text Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies for Trauma, a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, an author of the VA-Department of Defense Clinical Practice Guideline for Management of Traumatic Stress, and an author of a manual on Psychological First Aid following exposure to disaster/terrorist attack.

Courses by this instructor

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Stress Inoculation Training (SIT)