Laurie Fields, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

She combines evidence-based and other psychotherapies for a compassionate, personalized approach to best serve individual needs and preferences for a variety of mental health issues and life problems. She has been with the University of California for 25 years, conducting research and providing psychotherapy, teaching and training at the UCSF Trauma Recovery Center with a specialization in the treatment of trauma. Her research focuses on developing therapies that integrate the best of evidence-based practices in community settings. She recently completed a study investigating how trauma recovery is delayed when survivors have little or no memory of the trauma. She is currently conducting a longitudinal treatment outcome study evaluating a novel treatment she developed that addresses problems of existing evidence-based trauma-focused PTSD treatments when trauma memory is impaired. Additionally, Dr. Fields is in development of a manualized therapy approach for treatment of PTSD in the primary care setting. She has published a number of articles and book chapters on psychotherapy, trauma, training, and related topics. She conducts workshops on vicarious trauma, burnout, wellness, and resilience, and has found that addressing this has been vital to her ability to sustain and enliven her work in facilitating recovery for trauma survivors over the last 25 years. She recently completed an award-winning project entitled "Communities Healing and Transforming Trauma" (CHATT) - a speakers’ collaborative and advocacy program that successfully facilitates posttraumatic growth among trauma survivors.

• Characterizing Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault Subtypes and Treatment Engagement of Victims at a Hospital-Based Rape Treatment Center.
  Journal of interpersonal violence 2015 Richer LA, Fields L, Bell S, Heppner J, Dodge J, Boccellari A, Shumway M
• Scientist-practitioner training at the internship and postdoctoral level: Reflections over three decades
  Training and Education in Professional Psychology 2015 Muñoz, RF, Sorensen, JL, Areán, PA, Lieberman, AF, Fields, L, Gruber, VA, Hall, SM, Kramer, JH, Leykin, Y, McBurnett, K, McQuaid, JR, Pfiffner, LJ, Prochaska, JJ, Scheidt, SD, Shumway, M, Tsoh, JY, …
• Measuring teaching effectiveness in a pre-clinical multi-instructor course: A case study in the development and application of a Brief Instructor Rating Scale
  Teaching and Learning in Medicine 2005 Leamon MH, and Fields L.
• RE Hales & SC Yudofsky (eds.), American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychiatry, Fourth Edition
  Couple and family therapy 2003 Fields L, Morrison TL, & Beels, CC
• Medical students in jail: The psychiatric clerkship in an outpatient correctional setting
  Academic Psychiatry 2001 Leamon MH, Fields L, Cox PD, Scott C, and Mirrasou M
• An integrated brief approach to treating OCD
  Directions in Clinical and Counseling Psychology 2000 Fields, L.
• An integrative brief treatment approach for obsessive-compulsive disorder
  Journal of Psychotherapy Integration 1999 Fields, L.
• The salience of ethnic identity and its relationship to self-esteem, perceived efficacy, and prosocial attitudes in early adolescence
  Journal of Adolescence 1999 Smith EP, Walker K, Fields L, Brookins C, and Seay RC
• Coping and adjustment during childhood and adolescence
  Clinical Psychology Review 1997 Fields L, and Prinz RJ