Trauma Informed Mental Health Care

Brooks provides trauma informed psychiatric services at Primary Children’s Center for Safe and Healthy Families and is the Associate Vice Chair of Child Mental Health at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute. Dr. Keeshin’s academic efforts focus on detecting and responding to children, adolescents and youth at risk for traumatic stress and suicide. He is director of the Utah Psychotropic Oversight Program, which is responsible for ensuring that all youth in foster care receive safe, evidence based and trauma informed psychiatric treatment. Dr. Keeshin is also the director of Pediatric Integrated Post-trauma Services (PIPS), a Category II Center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.

With a strikingly multidisciplinary and multicultural education obtained in Italy, Switzerland and the US, she has a strong background in clinical psychology and her main interests lie in the area of childhood trauma and mindfulness-based interventions. Dr. Kostova is an international trainer in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), an MBCT qualified teacher and she is also a certified trainer for teaching trauma-informed curricula developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), including the Core Concepts of Childhood Trauma and Resource Parents Curriculum. On the research side, Dr. Kostova authored several peer-reviewed journal articles, contributed to book chapters, and presented to a number of international scientific conferences. Dr. Kostova is the NCTSN representative in Italy and Switzerland, where she is currently implementing evidence-based treatments for children and adolescents and collaborating with several universities and networks.