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George S. Everly, Jr., PhD

George S. Everly, Jr., PhD (b. May 31, 1950) is an American psychologist whose writings greatly shaped the fields of psychological crisis intervention and human resilience. He is considered one of the founders of the field of Disaster Mental Health.

        Everly was greatly influenced by seminal scholars who also served as his academic advisors and guided both his academic and professional careers; Theodore Millon, PhD, DSc at the University of Miami and David C. McClelland, PhD at Harvard University.

Critical Incident Stress Co-Founder

In the late 1980s, together with Jeffrey T. Mitchell, PhD, Everly founded the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF), an education and training organization dedicated to reducing the adverse impact of trauma and burnout within the emergency services professions worldwide. In 1997, ICISF was admitted to the United Nations as a non-governmental organization under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council, one of the six principle organs of the United Nations.

US University Affiliations

From 1988 to 1992, Everly served as Chief Psychologist and Director of Behavioral Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Homewood Hospital Center in Baltimore. Academic posts at Loyola University Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are currently held by Everly.

US Government Senior Consultant

As a consultant he was a member of the CDC Mental Health Collaboration Committee (having chaired the mental health competency development sub-committee), the Infrastructure Expert Team within the US Department of Homeland Security, the Peer Support Team for the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the NVOAD Emotional and Spiritual Care Committee.

International Faculty Appointments

He has held honorary or visiting professorships at the University of Hong Kong, Universidad de Flores (Argentina), and Universidad de Weiner (Peru).

Publication Snapshot

A prolific writer, Everly co-authored over 20 textbooks. With Daniel Girdano, he authored Controlling Strers and Tension (Prentice-Hall), perhaps the first college stress management textbook in 1977. In 1989, he authored A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response (Plenum), the first text to integrate the psychophysiology of stress with specific treatment guidelines. Both of these seminal texts are still in print. Writing with Jeffrey T. Mitchell, Everly wrote Critical Incident Stress Management, the first textbook on a comprehensive systems' approach to psychological crisis intervention. His 2007 book Pastoral Crisis Intervention paved the way for the integration of clergy into disaster mental health response. HIs 2008 book The Resilient Child (DiaMed) won ForeWord Magazine's Gold Medal for Book of the Year in Parenting.

    His work with US Navy SEALs and other highly resilient people culminated in his 2015 book Stronger (AMACOM). While on faculty at the Johns Hopkins' Center for Public Health Preparedness, Everly developed the Johns Hopkins' RAPID model of psychological first aid, one of the world's first evidence-based psychological first aid models. His book Psychological First Aid: The Johns Hopkins Model, is published by the Johns Hopkins Pres

Honors and Awards

His honors and awards include:
Achievement Award, Critical Incident Stress Foundation Association of Australia , 2000.
The Certificate of Honor from the Baltimore Police Department
The Honor Award from the American Red Cross
The Leadership Award from the American Red Cross
The Maryland Psychological Association's Award for Scientific Contributions to Psychology
Dr. Everly was the recipient of the University of Maryland’s College of Health and Human Performance’s 50th Anniversary Outstanding Alumni Award and was recognized as a “Pioneer in Clinical Traumatology” by the Traumatology Institute of the Florida State University. He was awarded the Susan Hamilton Award for consensus-building and collaboration in disaster mental health. He was named a Fellow of the Acdemy pf Psychosomatic Medicine, the American Psychological Association, the American Institute of Stress, and the Maryland Psychological Association

Complete Publications

Throughout his career Everly coined several terms that have been accepted into the lexicon of the fields of psychological crisis intervention and disaster mental health. "Pastoral Crisis Intervention" (2000) in a effort to foster interest and training in crisis intervention amongst the clery. "Psychotraumatology" in an effort to more specifically denote the study of psychological trauma as opposed to the commonly used term "traumatology" which refers to the study of wounds. Psychological Body Armor (TM) (2007)

Books of Note:

Girdano, D. & Everly, G. (1979). Controlling stress and tension: A holistic approach. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall.

Everly, G. (1989). A clinical guide to the treatment of the human stress response. New York : Plenum. Third edition with Jeffrey M. Lating (2013)

Everly, G. & Lating, J. (Eds.). (1995). Psychotraumatology. New York : Plenum.

Everly, G. & Mitchell, J. (1997). Critical Incident Stress Management: A new era and standard of care for crisis intervention. Ellicott City, MD: Chevron Publishing.

Everly, G. (2000). Pastoral crisis intervention: Toward a definition. International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, 2, 69-71.

Everly, G.S. & Lating, J. (2004). Personality Guided Therapy of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Wash. D.C.: American Psychological Association Press.

Everly, G.S., Jr. & Parker, C.L. (Eds).(2005). Mental Health Aspects of Disasters: Public Health Preparedness and Response, Vol. I. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins .

Everly, GS, Jr. & Reese, J. (2007. Psychological Body Armor: Strategic Lessons About Resiliency for Police, Firefighters, EMS, and Public Health Personnel. Ellicott City , MD: Chevron.

Ellicott City

Everly, GS, Jr., Strouse, DA, Everly, GS, III (2010). Resilient Leadership. NY: DiaMedica.

Everly, GS, Jr. (2009). The Resilient Child. NY: DiaMedica.

Everly, G.S. & Lating, J.M. (2017). Psychological First Aid. Baltimotre: The Johns Hopkins Press.

Everly, GS, Jr, Strouse, DA, McCormack, D. (2015). Stronger. NY: AMACOM.

Books Chapters

Other Publications of Note:

Everly, GS, Jr, Lating, JM, Sherman, M. & Goncher, I. (2016). The potential efficacy of a model of psychological first aid. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 204, 3, 233-235.

McCabe, OL, Semon, N., Thompson, CB, Lating, JM, Everly, GS, Jr., Perry, CJ, Moore, SS, Mosley, AM, Links, J. (2014). Building a National Model of Public Mental Health Preparedness and Community Resilience: Validation of a Dual-Intervention, Systems-Based Approach. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2014.119

Everly, GS, Jr, McCabe, OL, Semon, N, Thompson, CB, & Links, J (2014). The Development of a Model of Psychological First Aid (PFA) for Non-Mental Health Trained Public Health Personnel: The Johns Hopkins’ RAPID-PFA. Journal of Public Health Management Practice, 2014, 20(5), S24–S29

Everly, GS, Jr, Davey, J., Smith, K, Lating, J. & Nucifora, F. (2011). A defining aspect of human resilience in the workplace: A structural modeling analysis. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, vol. 5:98-105.

Everly, GS, Jr, Hamilton, SE, Tyiska, CG & Ellers, K. (2008). Mental Health Response to Disaster: Consensus Recommendations: Early Psychological Intervention Subcommittee (EPI), National Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD). Aggression and Violent Behavior, 13, 407–412.

Everly, GS, Jr, Perrin, P. & Everly, GS, III (2008). Psychological issues in escape, recovery, and survival in the wake of disaster. Monograph released by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Pittsburgh Research Laboratory.

Everly, GS., Jr, Beaton, RD., Pfefferbaum, B., & Parker, CL (2008). Training for disaster response personnel: The development of proposed core competencies in disaster mental health. Public Health Reports, 123, 13-19.

Sheehan, D., Everly, G., & Langlieb, A. (2004). Current Best Practices coping with major critical incidents. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, v. 73, #9, 1-13.

Journals

Peer-reviewed editorial positions

Ad hoc reviewer for:

The Lancet

British Medical Journal

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

American Psychologist

Psychology and Health: An International Journal

American Journal of Health Promotion

Health Education Research

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Aggression and Violent Behavior

Editorial Board Member:

Stress Medicine (August, 1992 to 2000)

Brief Treatment & Crisis Intervention (2000 to 2008)

Contributing Editor:

American Journal of Health Promotion (Sept., 1987 to Dec., 1991)

Grant Reviewer, NIMH (ad hoc)

Founding Editor, International Journal of Emergency Mental Health (1998-99)

Other Significant Contributions

Senior Advisor on Research, Office of His Highness The Amir of Kuwait 1995-2001. Helped establish "resilience-based" crisis intervention clinic post first GulF War

Co-founded Department of Psychiatry, Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 1992

Co-founder, Internatiuonal Critical Incident Stress Foundation, 1989. Chairman Emeritus. NGO Delegate to the United Nations, Economic and Social Development Office, 1997.

Former Chair, CDC Mental Health Collaboration Committee

Former Member, the Infrastructure Expert Protection Team within the US Department of Homeland Security serving Secretary Ridge.