Shirley M. Glynn, Ph.D. received her doctorate in clinical/social
psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1985. She is a
clinical research psychologist at the Greater Los Angeles healthcare
System at West Los Angeles and an associate research psychologist at the
Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. She is also
a licensed psychologist in California. Her primary professional
interests include the development and testing of psychosocial
treatments for serious psychiatric illnesses, such as Schizophrenia and chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
She has been working in
the field of PTSD for the past fifteen years. She directed the first
randomized trial on family therapy for PTSD and was the national Trauma
Focus Group Treatment supervisor for VA Cooperative study 320, which was
the largest investigation on group treatment for PTSD. Both of these
projects included participants with chronic combat-related PTSD. More
recently, she has been studying factors related to the development and
maintenance of PTSD among survivors of community violence, as well as
implementing innovative treatments in medical settings. She has
published extensively in the field of PTSD and serious psychiatric
illnesses.
Courses by this instructor:
Group Therapy for PTSD: Issues and Answers
