John Briere, PHD
John Briere, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, and Director of the Psychological Trauma Program at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. He is also Center Director of the USC Adolescent Trauma Training Center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. A past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, he is recipient of the Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association. He is author or co-author of over 100 articles and chapters, 10 books, and eight trauma-related psychological tests. He teaches on trauma, therapy, and mindfulness practices internationally. For more information visit his website at johnbriere.com
Online Courses and DVDs
Affect-based and Relational Healing Approaches to Complex Trauma
1.5 CE's Trauma expert, Dr. John Briere, explains the five steps of emotional processing of trauma memory. He defines the early development of relational “gestalts”, within attachment experiences and in negative attachment relatio...Mindfulness Based Clinical Interventions
1.5 CE's Buddhist Mindfulness practices reflect a 2,500 year old model for the remediation of psychological suffering. Much more recently, Western psychology has developed techniques for use in clinical interventions. John describ...
Reconsidering Trauma: Treatment Advances, Relational Issues and Mindfulness
1 CE In this presentation, Dr. John Briere provides an overview of the simple and more complex effects of psychological trauma. He outlines recent developments in the treatment of post-traumatic difficulties including relational processing, titra...
Understanding and Treating Complex Psychological Trauma
1 CE This training by John Briere, PHD presents a non-pathologizing, developmentally-informed approach to the treatment of complex posttraumatic presentations in older adolescents and adults. This “self-trauma model” incorporates cogn...
