Steven Marans, MSW, PhD
Harris Professor in the Child Study CenterCards
Additional Titles
Director, National Center for Children Exposed to Violence/Childhood Violent Trauma Center at the Yale Child Study Center
Director, Trauma Service
Professor of Psychiatry
Contact Info
Child Study Center
PO Box 207900, 230 South Frontage Road
New Haven, CT 06520-7900
United States
About
Titles
Harris Professor in the Child Study Center
Director, National Center for Children Exposed to Violence/Childhood Violent Trauma Center at the Yale Child Study Center; Director, Trauma Service; Professor of Psychiatry
Biography
Dr. Marans, a child and adult psychoanalyst, is the Harris Professor of Child Psychoanalysis and Professor of Psychiatry at the Child Study Center and Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. He is the director of the Yale Center for Traumatic Stress and Recovery and founder of the Child Development-Community Policing Program, a pioneering collaboration between mental health and law enforcement professionals providing collaborative response to children and families exposed to violence and trauma that occurs in their homes, neighborhood and schools. This program has been replicated in numerous communities around the country and abroad.
Dr. Marans is also co-developer, with Child Study Center faculty member Carrie Epstein, of the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention, a brief, early, evidence-based treatment that has proven effectiveness in interrupting and reducing post-traumatic disorders in children exposed to traumatic events. Under the auspices of a SAMHSA grant, this intervention is being disseminated broadly both nationally and internationally. Additionally, Dr. Marans and Prof. Epstein developed the Acute Stress Intervention for Adults, a brief intervention intended to support hospital staff impacted by the psychological demands associated with responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. A training was also developed for mental health professionals implementing the model with impacted hospital staff at Yale-New Haven Hospital and elsewhere.
Dr. Marans also continues to see children, adolescents and adults for clinical consultations, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He teaches and supervises child psychiatry, psychology and social work fellows in psychodynamic evaluation and treatment.
Over the past 25 years, Dr. Marans has worked closely with the local, state and federal agencies on issues related to responding to trauma associated with violence in homes and communities, on terrorism and natural disasters and served on Attorney General Eric Holder's National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence as well as the US Department of Health and Human Services National Advisory Committee on Children and Terrorism.
Appointments
Child Study Center
Professor Phased RetirementPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program
- Child Study Center
- Childhood Trauma Program
- Predoctoral Internship and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psychology
- Yale Medicine
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- Fellow
- Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis (1995)
- PhD
- London University (1993)
- Fellow
- Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic/Anna Freud Centre (1984)
- MSW
- Smith College (1979)
Research
Overview
Our research has been focused on the experience of violent trauma in the lives of children and families as well as changes in systems of care that can improve services and clinical outcomes. The partnership between mental health and law enforcement professionals in New Haven and around the country has generated broad opportunities to identify and respond to thousands of children and families each year who have experienced violence in their homes, schools and communities. Our work in responding to acute, peri-traumatic and longer-term responses to violent and catastrophic events has led to the development of new clinical approaches to meeting the needs of traumatized children and families. These innovative intervention strategies are also grounded in an integration of developmental, psychodynamic, behavioral and neurophysiologic aspects of the traumatic response. We have applied a similar perspective in developing new collaborative responses to domestic violence and to psychologically-informed approaches to emergency management responses to mass casualty man-made and natural disasters.
The Trauma Section at the Yale Child Study Center is currently involved in several research initiatives aims to influence practice and service delivery with mental health, law enforcement agencies, child advocacy centers, pediatric emergency care and to improve direct clinical service for children and their families.
1. Domestic Violence Home Visit Intervention Program (DVHVI)
The DVHVI is an innovative outreach program in which an advocate and a patrol officer conduct follow-up home visits to improve physical and psychological security in the aftermath of a domestic violence incident. Our initial findings showed that women who received this intervention felt officers were more helpful, they were more likely to call the police again and were more willing to engage their children into treatment. This model is currently being disseminated in three other communities with the goal of doing a cross site data collection and analysis of the program.
2. Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI)
The CFTSI is a 4-session secondary prevention approach to children and families exposed to violence and other traumatic events. The intervention is currently being evaluated to determine its effectiveness in reducing post-traumatic stress disorders and symptoms. Initial findings have shown positive results.
Medical Research Interests
Research at a Glance
Yale Co-Authors
Publications Timeline
Research Interests
Hilary Hahn, MPH, MEd
Carrie Epstein, LCSW
Carla Smith Stover, PhD
Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, PhD, ABPP
Linda Mayes, MD
Megan Goslin, PhD
Violence
Mental Disorders
Domestic Violence
Child Abuse
Publications
2021
Extending Law Enforcement Reach to Children Exposed to Violence: Police Training Evaluation
de la Fontaine N, Hahn H, Stover C, Marans S. Extending Law Enforcement Reach to Children Exposed to Violence: Police Training Evaluation. Journal Of Police And Criminal Psychology 2021, 37: 68-79. DOI: 10.1007/s11896-021-09448-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsConceptsLaw enforcement collaborationPolice officers' perceptionsPolice training curriculumLaw enforcement professionalsOfficers’ perceptionsPolice departmentsPolice officersEnforcement professionalsLaw enforcementOfficer motivationImmediate aftermathViolenceQualitative analysisLong-term mental health difficultiesOfficersEmotional needsMental health difficultiesUnique positionSpecific gapsPost-training resultsPracticeAttitudesPost-training surveysProgram presentationContent areas
2019
Addressing Childhood Trauma
Marans S, Hahn H, Epstein C. Addressing Childhood Trauma. 2019, 320-344. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190694395.013.16.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChildhood traumaPost-traumatic reactionsClinical interventionsEarly clinical interventionLong-term disordersPediatric health careFailure of recoveryPost-traumatic disordersMultidisciplinary collaborative effortChildhood exposureImmediate symptomsEarly identificationViolent traumaTraumaHealth careComplex needsInterventionPublic healthTraumatic eventsDisordersChildrenExposureInnovation in Early Trauma Treatment
Marans S, Epstein C, Hahn H, Goslin M. Innovation in Early Trauma Treatment. 2019, 610-628. DOI: 10.1017/9781108235655.030.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitations
2018
Psychoanalytic responses to violent trauma: the Child Development–Community Policing partnership
Marans S. Psychoanalytic responses to violent trauma: the Child Development–Community Policing partnership. 2018, 267-292. DOI: 10.4324/9780429473654-20.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsConceptsChild Development-Community Policing ProgramPolice officersPsychoanalytic principlesChild analystsPsychological traumaPsychoanalytic perspectiveSense of anticipationTherapeutic interventionsAnna FreudViolent traumaAgentive selfEmpirical evidenceInterventionChildrenOfficersMindfulnessClinical contactViolenceDifferent perspectivesTraumaNew settingSceneVery capacityCommunity policingAnticipation
2017
6. Program Development
Nagler S, Marans S, Berkman M, Schaefer M. 6. Program Development. 2017, 96-103. DOI: 10.12987/9780300146080-009.Peer-Reviewed Original Research3. Training Seminars
Nagler S, Marans S, Berkman M. 3. Training Seminars. 2017, 40-61. DOI: 10.12987/9780300146080-006.Peer-Reviewed Original Research1. Introduction
Marans S, Berkman M, Esserman D. 1. Introduction. 2017, 1-18. DOI: 10.12987/9780300146080-004.Peer-Reviewed Original Research4. Consultation Service
Berkman M, Marans S, Macdonald D. 4. Consultation Service. 2017, 62-83. DOI: 10.12987/9780300146080-007.Peer-Reviewed Original Research2. Child Development Fellowships
Berkman M, Macdonald D, Marans S, Nagler S, Wearing M. 2. Child Development Fellowships. 2017, 19-39. DOI: 10.12987/9780300146080-005.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchThe Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention
Epstein C, Hahn H, Berkowitz S, Marans S. The Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention. 2017, 145-166. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46138-0_7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsConceptsFamily Traumatic Stress InterventionStress interventionsYale Child Study CenterChild Study CenterMental health interventionsMental health treatmentTrauma reactionsTraumatic eventsChildren's symptomsSexual abuseSymptom reductionHealth treatmentFamily supportChildrenFormal disclosureInterventionLong-term treatmentHealth interventionsAdolescentsTrauma centerSkillsAbuseCaregiversSymptomsStudy centers
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