Kathleen M. Chard, Ph.D. Related seminars and products: 4

Kathleen M. Chard, Ph.D., is a co-developer of CPT and director of the Trauma Recovery Center at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center.  Serving as the VA CPT Implementation Director, Dr. Chard oversees the dissemination of CPT to mental health clinicians across the United States.  She is the co-author of Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: A Comprehensive Model (The Guilford Press, 2017) and author of CPT for Sexual Abuse Treatment Manual (2012).  A sought-after speaker, Dr. Chard has personally trained over 5,000 clinicians throughout the United States on using CPT with veterans, active duty personnel, and civilians in addition to overseeing the training of tens of thousands of others via the trainers she supervises.  She is co-chair of a 17-site study comparing CPT to Prolonged Exposure in US veterans in addition to conducting a $6 million-dollar Department of Defense study on the assessment of PTSD.  She served as a past editor of the Journal of Traumatic Stress and is currently a professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kathleen M. Chard is a co-developer of CPT and director of the Trauma Recovery Center at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center. She has an employment relationship with the University of Cincinnati. She receives royalties as an author from the Guilford Press. Dr. Chard receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-Financial: Kathleen M. Chard has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.