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Index>July
1, 2005
Special Announcement
Dr. Steven Marans appointed
Professor of Child Psychiatry and Psychiatry
Dr. Steven R. Marans, was appointed Professor of Child Psychiatry and
Psychiatry, at the Child Study Center and Department of Psychiatry,
School of Medicine effective July 1, 2005, based on his innovate work
with children and families exposed to community violence.
Dr. Marans is the director of the National Center for Children Exposed
to Violence (NCCEV), established by the White House and U.S. Dept. of
Justice in 1999, and founder of the Child Development Community Policing
(CD-CP) Program, a pioneering collaboration between mental health and
law enforcement professionals providing collaborative responses to children
and families exposed to violence that occurs in homes, neighborhoods,
and schools. Dr. Marans work in this area has broadened the field of
mental health interventions with traumatized children, families, communities
and nations. He has earned a national and international reputation as
a result of this work that has now been replicated in 15 communities
throughout the country (including one international community)
For over a decade he has worked closely with the White House, US Department
of Justice, US Department of Health and Human Services, US Department
of Education, State of Connecticut, and city of New Haven officials-especially
with Mayor DeStefano and Chief Francisco Ortiz, in helping to shape
policy and response plans around issues of violence exposure and more
recently, terrorism. Dr. Marans has worked especially closely with Congresswoman
Rosa DeLauro as well as with Senators Joseph Lieberman and Chris Dodd
and other members of Congress as an advisor on legislative issues involving
violence exposure, the aftermath of terrorist attacks, preparation and
planning for future attacks and mental health needs of US combatants
and their families. In the past he has worked closely with the White
House, Department of Justice and Department Health and Human Services
and Department of Education of on these issues. Dr. Marans has served
on two national advisory groups and commissions regarding children and
violence and, more recently on children and terrorism.
This year, Dr. Marans authored a book entitled Listening to Fear: Helping
Kids Cope, from Nightmares to the Nightly News, published by Holt Publishers
in New York. Based on clinical experience and lessons learned during
the course of his career, Dr. Marans addresses concerns that parents’,
mental health care providers and educators’ may have when dealing
with the normal fears that are part of human development as well as
trauma that may occur when real events make our worst nightmares come
true. The book also addresses the role of leadership in helping communities
recover in the wake of incidents of mass casualty and disaster.
Dr. Marans joined the faculty of the Yale Child Study Center in 1984
after completing his training in child and adolescent psychoanalysis
at the Anna Freud Centre in London. He received his master’s degree
in clinical social work from Smith College and his Ph.D. in psychology
from University College at London University. He is on the faculty of
the Western New England Institute of Psychoanalysis where he received
his training in adult psychoanalysis. Dr. Marans is on the editorial
boards of the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child and the International
Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies; is a member of the Steering
Committee and Advisory Board of the National Childhood Traumatic Stress
Network. Additionally he is a member of the advisory boards of Lawyers
for Children, America; and, the Center for Social Emotional Education.
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