Stefanie F. Smith, Ph.D.

In addition to her private practice, Stefanie F. Smith, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at California School for Professional Psychology at Alliant International University and Research and Evaluation consultant at Huckleberry Youth Programs in San Francisco.  She is also the co-chair for the Cultural Diversity Special Interest Group for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, a contributing editor to Stresspoints, and twice served as a reviewer for the annual international conference. Prior to that, Dr. Smith was Director of Research and Evaluation at Huckleberry Youth Programs, Inc.  She also was a HSA Assistant Clinical faculty member at the University of California-San Francisco in the Child and Adolescent Support Advocacy and Resource Center (CASARC). She has worked at the Trauma Center at JRI in Brookline, Massachusetts as a clinician, trauma-focused assessor, and research coordinator.

Dr. Smith has experience presenting and teaching in the area of child trauma, adult trauma and post traumatic stress disorder at the local and national levels, including presentations at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She has also served as an adjunct professor at University of California Berkley Extension, Emmanuel College and University of Massachusetts-Boston.

She has offered services as an expert in family, criminal, and immigration legal proceedings. She also provided consultation to clinicians and agencies.

Her numerous articles in the field of trauma include "Community Based Acute Post Traumatic Stress Management: A Description and Evaluation of a psychosocial Intervention Continuum", in the Harvard Psychiatric Review, 12(4) and "Complex Trauma in Children and Adolescents", a white paper for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.

She was the research coordinator for "The Yoga Study", which looked at the effects of yoga on HRV (heart rate variability) and as an intervention for PTSD in adult women. This pilot study laid the foundation to the first ever NIH grant in yoga and trauma.  Prior to that, Dr. Smith was Associate Research Director for Community Services at the Trauma Center where her work included researching the efficacy of Classroom-Based Intervention using movement, music, play, art, and drama for preventing trauma-related disorders in children.

Dr. Smith also served as an acute responder.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

            Smith, S.F. (in press). What History Can Teach Us:  Implications        

                    for the Conceptualization and Treatment of Interpersonal

                    Trauma in Women.  Women and Therapy.

            Smith, S. F. (2012). A multifaceted view of complex trauma:  From    

                    Freud to neuroscience, with a little behaviorism as well.    

                    Psyccritiques, 57(27), doi:10.1037/a0028829

            Ford, J.D & Smith, S.F. (2008).  Complex Post-traumatic Stress    

                    Disorder (PTSD) in Trauma-Exposed Adults Receiving Public    

                    Sector Outpatient Substance Abuse Disorder Treatment.

                    Addiction Research and Theory, 16 (2), 193-203.

            Spinazzola, J., Ford, J., Zucker, M., van der Kolk, B., Silva, Smith,

                    S., Blaustein, M., (2005).  Survey Evaluates Complex Trauma    

                    Exposure, Outcome and Intervention Among Children &    

                    Adolescents.  Psychiatric Annals, 35(5), 433-439.

            Macy, R. D., Behar, L. Paulson, R., Delman, J., Schmid, L., &

                    Smith, S. F. (2004).  Community Based Acute Post Traumatic    

                    Stress Management: A Description and Evaluation of a

                    Psychosocial Intervention Continuum.  Harvard Psychiatric

                    Review, 12(4).

            Allen, G., Hartl, T., Duffany, S., Smith, S. et al. (2003).  Cognitive

                    and motor function after administration of hydrocodone        

                    bitartrate plus ibuprofen, ibuprofen alone, or placebo in healthy    

                    subjects with exercise-induced muscle damage: A randomized,

                    repeated-dose, placebo-controlled study. Psychopharmacology,       

                    166(3), 228-233.

            Finkel, N., Hughes, K., Smith, S., Hurabiell, M.  (1994).  Killing

                    Kids:  The Juvenile Death Penalty and Community Sentiment. 

                    Behavioral Sciences and the Law  12, 5-20.

Finkel, N. Smith, S.  (1993).  Principals and Assessories in Capital

                    Felony-Murder:  The Proportionality Principle Reigns

                    Supreme.  Law and Society Review  27, No. 1.

Parrott, W. G., Smith, S.  (1991).  Embarrassment:  Actual vs.

                    Typical Cases, Classical vs. Prototypical Representations. 

                    Cognition and Emotion  5 (5/6), 467-488.

Non-peer reviewed publications

            Cook, A.B., Blaustein, M., Spinazzola, J., van der Kolk, B.(Eds).

                    (2003).  Complex Trauma in Children and Adolescents.  White

                    Paper from the Child Traumatic Stress Network Complex                           

                    Trauma Task Force.