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Edward S. Kubany, Ph.D., M.B.A., ABPP, received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Hawaii. Dr. Kubany is a Research Clinical Psychologist with the Honolulu Department of Veterans Affairs and is a Research Associate with the National Center for PTSD, Pacific Islands Division. He also has a small private practice where he works exclusively with trauma survivors, primarily physically and sexually abused women and surviving family members of victims of untimely deaths.
Dr. Kubany is a Diplomate in Behavioral Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology, with a subspecialty in the area of cognitive-behavioral assessment and therapy for PTSD. He is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and is Board Certified in Bereavement Trauma with the Academy. He has been on the Editorial Board of Psychological Assessment, a journal of the American Psychological Association, since 1996. Dr. Kubany's research interests focus on assessment, treatment, and theoretical aspects of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Dr. Kubany has written theoretical articles and conducted experimental studies on a conceptual model of guilt. He and his colleagues have developed and validated three scales: (1) the Trauma-Related Guilt Inventory, (2) the Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire, (a broad-spectrum measure of prior trauma exposure), and (3) the Distressing Event Questionnaire (a brief diagnostic measure of PTSD). Dr. Kubany is also in the process of refining and validating an Acute Stress Disorder Scale and a Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents. Dr. Kubany has developed a structured cognitive-behavioral intervention (called Cognitive Trauma Therapy) for the treatment of PTSD, guilt, and depression. His research team has been awarded a 3-year grant to evaluate the efficacy of Cognitive Trauma Therapy in a treatment-outcome study with 120 battered women suffering from PTSD. |
