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David Kolko, PhD was the featured presenter at the Field Center’s Spring Breakfast Symposium, held on April 11, 2007 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Levy Conference Center. Dr. Kolko’s talk on Studying and Changing Treatment Practices in Child Welfare: Trials and Tribulations addressed trauma treatment from a practice and research perspective. He highlighted limited outcome research and dissemination in the field, poor adoption of empirically supported treatments in real-world clinical settings, and a disconnect between current scientific knowledge and practice in the field as challenges to evidence-based practice in the trauma field. Dr. Kolko presented his work in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to illustrate empirically supported treatment.
Dr. Kolko is Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Director of Science and Practice for Effective Children’s Services at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. He has been involved in child abuse treatment and prevention research for 25 years and is currently the principal investigator of the Partners for Families project, a treatment effectiveness study funded by NIMH, and a treatment development affiliate in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (SAMHSA).
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