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Patricia Watson, Ph.D.
Senior educational specialist for the National Center for PTSD and assistant professor at Dartmouth Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry
Patricia Watson, Ph.D. is a senior educational specialist for the National Center for PTSD and assistant professor at Dartmouth Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry. Her education includes a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Catholic University, and a postgraduate fellowship in pediatric psychology at Harvard Medical School.
She is co-author of the Psychological First Aid (PFA) Field Guide and the Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR) Manual, produced by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and the National Center for PTSD. She has additionally co-edited three books on disaster behavioral health interventions, numerous articles, guidance documents, and chapters on disaster mental health, resilience, combat and operational stress, and pandemic flu.