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Amatruda
- Licensed Marriage and
Family Therapist and Emergency Medical Technician
- CA-6 Disaster Medical
Assistance Team (DMAT) Member
- Board Certified Expert
in Traumatic Stress - Diplomate, American Academy
of Experts in Traumatic Stress
- Red Cross Disaster
Service Mental Health Volunteer and Disaster Action
Team Leader
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Kate Amatruda, LMFT, CST-T, BCETS,
EMT-B, DMAT, is a dynamic, nationally
known speaker. A Licensed Marriage and Family
Therapist for over 25 years, she is a Board
Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress - Diplomat,
American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress,
and a teaching member of the International Society
for Sandplay Therapy. She is an Emergency Medical
Technician, a member of CA–6 Disaster
Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) and a Red Cross
Disaster Service Mental Health volunteer, and
has responded to the Hurricane Katrina disaster,
and Florida Groundhog Day Tornadoes, as well
as to local fires and floods with her local
Red Cross, as a Disaster Action Team Leader.
She went to Sri Lanka with the Association for
Play Therapy and OperationUSA to work with children
post-tsunami.
Kate Amatruda has lectured internationally
and teaches in the Extended Education departments
at U.C. Berkeley and Sonoma State University.
She is the author of A Field Guide to Disaster
Mental Health: The Very Big Wave and the Mean
Old Storm; School Shootings: 'Red flags'
for assessment, detection, and signs of school
violence; HIV: The Storm;Psyche &
Soma Trauma, Terror and Treatment;
and Painted Ponies: Bipolar Disorder in
Children, Adolescents and Adults, as well
as numerous journal articles and chapters. Her
work with trauma is featured in the DVD Trauma
Treatment - September 11 - One Year Later,
an hour interview with Frontiers TV in Brooklyn,
NY, and her work with children with cancer is
shown in the DVD Sandplay Therapy and the
Liminal World. She has produced a series
of powerful lecture/music/PowerPoint presentations
on disaster response, including: The Very
Big Wave and the Mean Old Storm; Trauma,
Terror and Treatment: A Field Guide to Disaster
Mental Health; Tsunami; and Welcome
to Chaos: Rules for Disaster Mental Health Responders.
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Workshops, Presentations and Seminar Topics
The Very Big Wave and the Mean Old Storm
Disaster Mental Health work with children in Sri Lanka,
after the Tsunami, and after Hurricane Katrina; lecture
and PowerPoint
Trauma, Terror and Treatment: A Field Guide
to Disaster Mental Health
A full day workshop on Disaster Mental Health, including
September 11, Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, Groundhog
Day Tornadoes. Concepts of Psychological First Aid
Tsunami! Cultural Competency in Disaster Relief
School Shootings: 'Red flags' for assessment,
detection, and signs of school violence
Welcome to Chaos: Rules for Disaster Mental
Health Responders
Full of humor, a "been there" guide to preparing
to go to a disaster, and what to expect once you are
there
Trauma and Illness
Play Therapy, Sandplay Therapy, and Family Work with
families in which a child or parent has a catastrophic
illness
Following
is a list of organizations with whom Kate Amatruda has
interviewed, consulted or trained:
The Very Big Wave and the Mean Old Storm:
ARCBA Red Cross
Welcome to Chaos: Disaster Mental Health:
New Mexico Play Therapists
Behavioral Emergencies: Emergency Medical
Technician Course - College of Marin
Working with Children and Families: International
Congress of Victimology, Lucca, Italy
International Society for Sandplay Therapy,
London
University of California, Berkeley: School
of Extended Education
University of California, Berkeley: Department
of Social Welfare
University of California, San Diego:
School of Extended Education
Institute of Noetic Sciences, San Rafael, Petaluma
Sandplay Therapists of America: Washington,
California and Texas, Minnesota, Hawaii, New Mexico
and Massachusetts
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Oakland
Solano County Department of Mental Health,
Vallejo
Family Service Agency, San Rafael
Numerous Treatment Centers in the San
Francisco Bay Area, Hawaii, New Mexico
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