The Johns Hopkins Guide to Psychological First Aid, Second Edition

About Jeffrey M. Lating

Jeffrey M. Lating earned his BA in psychology from Swarthmore College in 1985 and his PhD in clinical psychology in 1991 from the University of Georgia. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in medical psychology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1993. He was the director of clinical training at the Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore from 1993 to 1996, and the chief psychologist there from 1996 to 1998. He is currently a professor of psychology at Loyola University Maryland and was the director of clinical training of the doctoral program in clinical psychology at Loyola from 2000 to 2013. Dr. Lating is also a faculty member of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. From 2005 to 2009, he served on the Maryland State Board of Examiners of Psychologists. He has coedited and coauthored six books in the areas of stress and posttraumatic stress.

Dr. Lating has also served as a clinical consultant and crisis-management trainer with FEMA; the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA); the United States Senate Employee Assistant Program; the US Department of State; the US Department of Labor; the United Steelworkers (USW); the Danish Military; the Edmonton Police Service; the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP); the Swiss Air Navigation Services; and the World Bank. He also consulted and provided clinical interventions and training with the US Secret Service's Employee Assistance Program in New York City in the days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.