Resilience After Trauma: Evidence-Based Assessment & Intervention

Dr. Hamby focuses on ways that psychologists can assess and promote key strengths for facilitating resilience after trauma. She illustrates evidence-based assessments and interventions that support clients’ achievement of well-balanced resilience portfolios to help them thrive after adversity.

An internationally recognized authority on victimization and trauma, Sherry Hamby is Research Professor of Psychology at the University of the South and the Director of the Life Paths Appalachian Research Center.  She is founding editor of the APA journal, Psychology of Violence, and author or co-author of more than 200 publications.  Her awards include the 2017 Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Science of Trauma Psychology from the Trauma Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association.  Dr. Hamby has appeared in the New York Times, CBS News, Washington Post, Huffington Post, USA Today, Psychology Today, and hundreds of other media outlets.  Her most recent book is Battered Women’s Protective Strategies:  Stronger Than You Know.