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Trauma Informed Weight Lifting: Considerations for coaches, trainers and gym environments

Trauma Informed Weight Lifting: Considerations for coaches, trainers and gym environments. (2023) Nowakowski-Sims E., Rooney M., Vigue D., Woods S.

A Grounded Theory of Weight Lifting as a Healing Strategy for Trauma

A Grounded Theory of Weight Lifting as a Healing Strategy for Trauma. (2023) Nowakowski-Sims E., Rooney M., Vigue D., Woods S. Mental Health and Physical Activity.

Predictors of Symptom Severity and Change Among Youth in Trauma-informed Residential Care

Predictors of symptom severity and change among youth in trauma-informed residential care. (2023) Hodgdon, Lord, Suvak, Martin, Briggs, & Beserra. Child Abuse & Neglect.

Temporal Relationships between PTSD Symptoms and Social Functioning among Adolescents in Residential Care

Lord, K., Suvak, M., & Hodgdon, H.B. (2021). Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychopathology.

Pilot study of Internal Family Systems therapy for adults with a history of childhood trauma and chronic PTSD

Hodgdon, H.B., Anderson, F.G., Southwell, E., Hrubec, W., & Schwartz, R. (2021). Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma.

Trauma treatment for youth in a community-based settings: Implementing the Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) Framework.

Fehrenbach, T., Sax, R.M., Urban, T.H, Simon-Roper, L., Novacek, J., Aaby, D.A., Hodgdon, H.B. (In Press). Journal of Child and Family Studies.

Health workers can play key role in helping trafficking victims.

Stoklosa, H., Murphy, L., Peck, J.L., Robitz, R., Greenbaum, J., Garrett, A., Hopper, E., & Chon, K. (2021, March). Thomas Reuters Foundation News [Editorial].

Core competencies for human trafficking response in health care and behavioral health systems.

Batley, C., Chon, K., Garrett, A., Greenbaum, J., Hopper, E., Murphy, L., Peck, J., Pfenning, E., Robitz, R., & Stoklosa, H. (2021). National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center, Department of Health and Human Services.

Moderators of treatment efficacy in a randomized controlled trial of trauma-sensitive yoga as an adjunctive treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Nguyen-Feng, V., Hodgdon, H.B., Emerson, D., Silverberg, R., & Clark, C.J. (2020). Psychological Traum

The impact of Neurofeedback training on children with developmental trauma: A randomized control study.

Rogel, A., Melville, A., Hamlin, E., Hodgdon, H.B., Spinazzola, J., & van der Kolk, B. (2020). Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Pol

Psychological Maltreatment of Children: Influence Across Development

Hodgdon H.B., Landers A.L. (2020) In: Geffner R., White J.W., Hamberger L.K., Rosenbaum A., Vaughan-Eden V., Vieth V.I. (eds) Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan. Springer, Cham.

Bringing attention to childhood emotional abuse in psychotherapy with adults. Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy

Nguyen-Feng, V. N., Sundstrom, M., Asplund, A., & Hodgdon, H. (2020, March 15). (APA Division 29). 

Emotion and PTSD

Suvak, M.K., Musicaro, R. M., & Hodgdon, H. (2020). PTSD and Emotional Granularity. In M. T. Tull & N. A. Kimbrel (Eds.). (pp. 377-407). Elsevier: Cambridge, MA.

PTSD and Emotional Granularity.

Suvak, M.K., Musicaro, R. M., & Hodgdon, H. (2020). In M. T. Tull & N. A. Kimbrel (Eds.). Emotion and PTSD (pp. 377-407). Elsevier: Cambridge, MA.

Network analysis of exposure to trauma and adverse events in a clinical sample of children and adolescents.

Hodgdon, H.B., Suvak, M.S., Zinoviev, D.Y., Liebman, R., Briggs, E.C., & Spinazzola, J. (2019). Psychological Assessment.

Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents: How to Foster Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency

Blaustein, M. & Kinniburgh, K., 2nd Edition (The Guilford Press, New York, 2019).

Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Neglect: Component-Based Psychotherapy

Hopper, Grossman, Spinazzola, Zucker, December, 2018

Building Communities of Care: A Comprehensive Model for Trauma-Informed Youth Capacity Building and Behavior Management in Residential Services

Forrest, Gervais, Lord, Sposato, Martin, Beserra, Spinazzola, Residential Treatment for Children and Youth, November 2018, 35:4, 265-285, DOI: 10.1080/0886571X.2018.1497930

A feminist perspective on human trafficking of women and girls

Hopper, E. (2019). In Sidun, N. & Hume, D. (Eds.) Trauma-informed psychological assessment of human trafficking survivors. (pp.6-24). doi: 10.4324/9781315203904-2.

Maltreatment type, exposure characteristics, and mental health outcomes among clinic referred trauma-exposed youth.

Hodgdon, H.B., Spinazzola, J., Briggs, E.C., Liang, L., Steinberg, A.M., & Layne, C.M. (2018). Child Abuse & Neglect.

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