Faculty

Joyanna Silberg served as a Senior Consultant in childhood trauma for Sheppard Pratt Hospital and past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She has presented internationally on childhood trauma and dissociation and is the author of The Child Survivor: Healing Developmental Trauma and Dissociation, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2022).

She is past-president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation (ISSTD) and contributing editor to the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. She received the 1992 Walter P. Klopfer Award for her research, 1997 Cornelia Wilbur Award for clinical excellence, and the 2011 William Friedrich Award for work on Child Sexual Abuse. Joyanna is the editor of The Dissociative Child and co-editor of Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors. She has been the consultant for the Domestic Violence and Legal Empowerment Appeals Project (DV LEAP)’s Custody and Abuse Project with Office on Violence Against Women. She is also consultant for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network grant through the Child Trauma Assessment and Service Planning Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Joyanna is the 2013 recipient of the Champion for Children Award from DV LEAP.