Patricia Van Horn, J.D., Ph.D

Patricia Van Horn, J.D., Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in the State of California, Associate Clinical Professor of in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco, and Associate Director of the UCSF Child Trauma Research Project located at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Van Horn received her J.D. in 1970 from the University of Colorado School of Law, and her Ph.D. in 1996 from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology.  Her research at the Child Trauma Research Project involves investigating the efficacy of a relationship-based model for treating children under six and there caregivers in cases where the children have witnessed domestic violence or experienced other interpersonal traumas. She is co-author of the books Losing a parent to death in the early years: Guidelines for the treatment of traumatic bereavement in infancy and early childhood, and “Don’t Hit my Mommy!”: A manual of child-parent psychotherapy with young witnesses of family violence.