Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, Ed.D., M.P.H.
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Licensed Psychologist, District of Columbia
2115 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Suite 140
Washington, DC 20007
Phone: 202-687-7490
Fax: 202-687-0694
Email: pd227@georgetown.edu
General Information
Undergraduate Degree: University of Durban Westville
Graduate Degree: Harvard University
Residency: McLean Hospital
Areas of Interest and Research: Focuses on the effects of trauma, violence, abuse, and other stressful events using CBT, strengths-based, solutions-focused approaches. Studies the effects of trauma on individuals from historically oppressed or stigmatized groups, their unique stressors, and culturally specific coping processes.
BIO
Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, studies the effects of trauma, violence, abuse, and other stressful events among historically oppressed or stigmatized groups. She has expertise in treating trauma and she has testified in several PTSD-related cases. Besides numerous publications, she is the published author of three books: Trauma, Violence & Abuse (2020), Disaster and Crisis Response: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina (2009), and A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions (2007). Dr. Dass-Brailsford is an APA Fellow of Divisions 17, 17, 29, 32, 35, 32, 45, 56.
Research Interests
Psychological effects of trauma and violence on ethnic minority and indigenous communities; Co-morbidity of HIV, PTSD and Substance Abuse among Women living with HIV; Mental health consequences of natural disasters nationally and globally; Intersection of trauma and homelessness among mothers of young children; the role of traditional healers in treatment of mental illness in South Africa.
Grants & Experience
- Traumatic Life Experiences of Women Living with HIV
- Using Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depression to Enhance HAART Adherence
- Women’s Serious Mental Illness and Pathways to Jail
- Maternal Disclosure of HIV
- Improving Communication between Primary Care Providers and their Trauma Patients
- Community Violence and Inner City Youth
- Ethnocultural Violence in Sri Lanka
- Institutional Mistrust and intergenerational trauma
- Racial Identity Development among Counseling Students
- Safer and Stronger Girls Initiative
- Ethnographic study on Resiliency among traumatized Black Youth in South Africa