| Full Time Faculty | | |  Carla Danielson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
National Crime Victims Center (NCVC)
(843)792-2945 phone
(843)792-3388 fax
danielso@musc.edu | | | | | | Biographical Sketch | | Dr. Carla Kmett Danielson is currently an Assistant Professor at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (NCVC). Dr. Danielson completed her undergraduate coursework in 1997 at the Ohio University, graduating Summa Cum Laude and with Departmental Honors in Psychology. She earned her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Dayton in 1999 and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Case Western Reserve University in 2003. She completed a Pre-Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology at the Charleston Consortium Psychology Internship Program at MUSC, followed by a 2-year, NIMH-supported Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the NCVC. Broadly, Dr. Danielson’s research interests focus on reducing risk for negative sequelae in victims of traumatic events by identifying mechanisms underlying the development of PTSD, substance abuse, and other high risk behaviors and evaluating interventions that target these problems. Her current program of research involves the development and evaluation of Risk Reduction through Family Therapy, an ecologically-based intervention targeting trauma-related psychopathology, substance abuse, and HIV-risk behaviors among adolescent sexual assault victims. Dr. Danielson also is evaluating the construct validity of the Behavioral Indicator of Resiliency to Distress (BIRD) as a potential measure of distress tolerance in youth through a collaboration with the Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research. In addition, Dr. Danielson is significantly involved in research investigating the role of cultural factors in the assessment and treatment of Hispanic victims of traumatic events, including the cultural adaptation of a trauma-focused treatment for the Hispanic population. She was recently awarded a Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) and an Early Career Investigator Award from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence to support her research in these aforementioned areas. | | | | | | | Research Interests | - Reducing risk for negative sequelae in victims of traumaticevents by identifying mechanisms underlying the development of PTSD, substance abuse, and other high risk behaviors and evaluating interventions that target these problems.
- Development and evaluation of Risk Reduction through Family Therapy, an ecologically-based intervention targeting trauma-related psychopathology, substance abuse, and HIV-risk behaviors among adolescent sexual assault victims.
- Evaluating the construct validity of the Behavioral Indicator of Resiliency to Distress (BIRD) as a potential measure of distress tolerance in youth through a collaboration with the Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research.
- The role of cultural factors in the assessment and treatment of Hispanic victims of traumatic events, including the cultural adaptation of a trauma-focused treatment for the Hispanic population.
| | She is also a co-coordinator for the Department's grant writing & reviewing seminar |
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