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Rochelle Hanson, Ph.D.   

Dr. Rochelle Hanson is Professor and Director of Clinical Operations at the National Crime Victim's Research and Treatment Center (NCVC), Medical University of South Carolina.  Her research focuses on the prevalence and effects of trauma exposure as well as dissemination of evidence-based, trauma-focused interventions.  Dr. Hanson received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Florida State University and completed an NIMH Post-Doctoral fellowship in Sexual Assault Research at the NCVC.  She has served as the Co-Investigator on several federally-funded projects investigating violence exposure among children and adolescents.  She is PI on an NIMH-funded grant examining the best ways to transport empirically-supported trauma-focused treatments into community-based settings.  She is also one of the core faculty for Project BEST, a South Carolina state-wide initiative funded by the Duke Endowment Foundation, whose long term goal is to ensure that all South Carolina children and their families, who are identified as having experienced abuse and resulting trauma, receive appropriate, empirically supported mental health assessment and psychosocial treatment services.  She also maintains a clinical practice, providing treatment to children and adults.

Research Interests: child sexual and physical abuse; dissemination and implementation of empirically-supported treatment interventions for symptoms related to child trauma; criminal victimization; assessment and treatment of trauma and abuse-related symptoms among child victims and their families; treatment of adult trauma victims

Honors and Awards:

Selected Publications:

• Hanson, R.F., Self-Brown, S., Fricker-Elhai, A., Kilpatrick, D.G., Saunders, B.E., & Resnick, H.S. (2006). Relations among parental substance use, violence exposure and mental health: The National Survey of Adolescents. Addictive Behaviors, 31(11), 1988-2001.
• Hanson, R.F., Self-Brown, S., Fricker-Elhai, A., Kilpatrick, D.G., Saunders, B.E., & Resnick, H.S.(2006). The relationship between family environment and violence exposure among youth: Findings from the National Survey of Adolescents. Child Maltreatment, 11, 3-15.
• Chaffin, M., Hanson, R.F., Saunders, B.E., Nichols, T., Barnett, D., Zeanah, C., Berliner, L., Egeland, B., Wolfe, D., Newman, E., Lyon, T., Letourneau, E., & Miller-Perrin, C. (2006). Report of the APSAC Task Force on attachment therapy, reactive attachment disorder and attachment problems. Child Maltreatment, 11, 76-89.
• Hanson, R. F., Borntrager, C.F., Self-Brown, S., Kilpatrick, D., G., Saunders, B.E., Resnick, H. S., & Amstadter, A. B. (2008). Relations among gender, violence exposure, and mental health:  The National Survey of Adolescents. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 78, 313-321. PMC2735843
• Hanson, R. F., Ralston, E., Self-Brown, S., Ruggiero, K.J., Saunders, B.E., Gaw, A., Sosnowski, P., & Williams, R. (2008). Description and Preliminary Evaluation of the Child Abuse School Liaison Program: A Secondary Prevention Program for School Personnel. Journal of Psychological Trauma, (7), 91-103.
• Begle, A.M., Dumas, J.E, & Hanson, R.F. (in press). Predicting child abuse potential: An empirical investigation of two theoretical frameworks. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology.
• Nugent, N.R., Saunders, B.E., Williams, L.M., Hanson, R.F., Smith, D.W., Fitzgerald, M.M. (in press). Posttraumatic stress symptom trajectories in children living in families reported for family violence. Journal of Traumatic Stress.
• Zinzow, H. M., Ruggiero, K. J., Resnick, H., Hanson, RF., Smith, D., Saunders, B., Kilpatrick, D. (2009). Prevalence and mental health correlates of witnessed parental and community violence in a national sample of adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, (50), 441-450.
• Zinzow, H., Ruggiero, K., Hanson, R., Smith, D., Saunders, B., & Kilpatrick, D. (in press). Witnessed parental and community violence in relation to substance use and delinquency in a national sample of adolescents. Journal of Traumatic Stress.

Selected Presentations:

• Hanson, R.F.(2009, June).  Assessing Parental Competence, workshop presented at the annual colloquium for the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), Atlanta, GA.
• Hanson, R.F.(2009, June).  The Revolving Door: Engaging Families in Treatmet, workshop presented at the annual colloquium for the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), Atlanta, GA.
• Hanson, R. F. (2009, April). An Overview of TF-CBT. Presentation at the Children’s Justice Conference, Seattle, WA.
• Hanson, R.F. (2009, April) Caregivers as Active Participants in their Child’s Treatment: Focusing on positive parenting; modeling skills; enhancing the parent/child relationship and improving parent/child communication and problem solving. Presentation at the Children’s Justice Conference, Seattle, WA.
• Hanson, R.F. (2008, November). Measuring Fidelity in Treatment Implementation. Presentation at the annual conference for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), Chicago, IL.
• Fitzgerald, M. M., Hanson, R.F., Saunders, B.E., Lang, J., & Franks, R. (2008, November). Spreading Best Practices. Presentation at the annual conference for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), Chicago, IL.
• Hanson, R.F. (2008, June). Transporting Evidence-based Treatment for Child Abuse:  Focus on Training Community-based Clinicians.  Workshop presented at the annual colloquium for the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), Phoenix, AZ.

For a complete list of Publications and Presentations:
Curriculum Vitae  (2009) (Requires Adobe® Reader to view)

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