Dr. Elizabeth Carll
An internationally recognized clinical and consulting psychologist, author and speaker, Dr. Elizabeth Carll is an expert on stress and post-traumatic stress, crisis management in relationship to life events and violence, including family, workplace, youth and media violence.
She is the author and editor of a variety of publications, the most recent (2007) being Trauma Psychology: Issues in Violence, Disaster, Health and Illness, Two Volumes. (Vol. 1: Violence and Disaster; Vol. 2: Health and Illness.) She is also an authority on the mind-body connection to health/illness, body image, eating disorders, self-injury behavior, family relationships and media.
Dr. Carll has responded to numerous disasters and crises and served on the American Psychological Association's National Disaster Response Advisory Task Force for seven years and founded the New York State Psychological Association Disaster/Crisis Response Network, the first statewide volunteer disaster response network in the nation, which she coordinated for ten years. Frequently interviewed by national television, print and radio, Dr. Carll is a past president of the Media Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association and also chairs its News Media, Public Education, and Public Policy Committee and the Interactive Media Committee.
She edited a special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist, "Psychology, News Media, and Public Policy: Promoting Social Change" and chairs the Media/ICT Working Group for the United Nations NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York. She is also a representative to the United Nations from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
An internationally recognized clinical and consulting psychologist, author and speaker, Dr. Elizabeth Carll is an expert on stress and post-traumatic stress, crisis management in relationship to life events and violence, including family, workplace, youth and media violence.
She is the author and editor of a variety of publications, the most recent (2007) being Trauma Psychology: Issues in Violence, Disaster, Health and Illness, Two Volumes. (Vol. 1: Violence and Disaster; Vol. 2: Health and Illness.) She is also an authority on the mind-body connection to health/illness, body image, eating disorders, self-injury behavior, family relationships and media.
Dr. Carll has responded to numerous disasters and crises and served on the American Psychological Association's National Disaster Response Advisory Task Force for seven years and founded the New York State Psychological Association Disaster/Crisis Response Network, the first statewide volunteer disaster response network in the nation, which she coordinated for ten years. Frequently interviewed by national television, print and radio, Dr. Carll is a past president of the Media Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association and also chairs its News Media, Public Education, and Public Policy Committee and the Interactive Media Committee.
She edited a special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist, "Psychology, News Media, and Public Policy: Promoting Social Change" and chairs the Media/ICT Working Group for the United Nations NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York. She is also a representative to the United Nations from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
