Eve Carlson, PhD

Eve B. Carlson, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with the National Center for PTSD’s Education and Clinical Laboratory Division in Menlo Park, California (Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System). She conducts research on the psychological impact of traumatic experiences that focuses on assessment, and she provides training and education in trauma research methodology and assessment of traumatic experiences and responses. Her publications include the books Trauma Assessments: A Clinician's Guide and Trauma Research Methodology and various theoretical and research articles and book chapters relating to traumatic stress and assessment of trauma and trauma responses. Dr. Carlson has collaborated on the development of several measures, including a screen for trauma history, two dissociation measures, and a brief measure of PTSD. Dr. Carlson's research, work on measurement development, and professional leadership have been honored by awards from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the International Society for the Study of Dissociation. Dr. Carlson served on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies for the past six years and was Program Chair for the 2002 annual meeting of the ISTSS.