Feeling Safe at School – Helping Children Cope with School Shootings and Mass Violence

Amie R. Newins, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Central Florida and the Director of Clinical Operations for the Rosengren Trauma Clinic at UCF RESTORES. Her research interests focus on the relationship between anxiety and health risk behaviors, with an emphasis on risk and outcomes of trauma exposure. Her clinical expertise is in cognitive-behavioral therapy for trauma-related, anxiety, and depressive disorders. The Rosengren Trauma Clinic has provided treatment to survivors of several mass violence events.

Deborah C. Beidel, PhD, ABPP is a Trustee Chair and Pegasus Professor at the University of Central Florida. She is the Founder and Executive Director of UCF RESTORES, a clinical research center dedicated to changing how posttraumatic stress disorder is understood, diagnosed, and treated. Her research involves using innovative technologies to enhance the outcome of behavioral treatments for PTSD as well as to improve dissemination.  Over the past 15 years, she has led teams of mental health professionals who have responded to a number of mass violence events, providing consultation and treatment to survivors, their families, first responders, and impacted communities.