Giovanna Giacobbe, MSW, is a Lecturer for Rutgers University in the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Giovanna has had over 15 years of experience managing various research projects from the state of NJ, NIDILRR, NIH and NIMH that focused its research on severe mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, schizoaffective disorders, as well as substance abuse, trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), personality disorders, smoking cessation, college students with psychiatric disabilities, Supported Housing, Supported Employment and Supported Education.

Giovanna’s area of interest is in trauma and PTSD.  She currently teaches a trauma graduate course at Rutgers University for students in the Master’s Psychiatric Rehabilitation program. She is also a trauma consultant for all four NJ State Psychiatric Hospitals. In this role she has authored a Stage 1 trauma treatment manual called: Managing Difficult Life Experiences (MDLE) and adapted a trauma manual called the “Trauma Addictions Mental Health and Recovery” (TAMAR). She also serves a trauma consultant/member to the NJ Centralized Trauma Informed Care Committee.

Giovanna has served as a trauma clinician for a PTSD research study and at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital implementing the NJ-TAMAR program. She is also responsible for supervising and training clinicians on MDLE and NJ-TAMAR manuals and Trauma Informed Care at all four NJ state psychiatric hospitals. Ms. Giacobbe also serves as a clinical and assessment supervisor and trainer for research assistants on various PTSD research grants for her department.

*Please contact me at giovanna.giacobbe@gmail.com for my CV with an exhaustive list of the various trauma trainings I have presented on. Some of the topics include: trauma, trauma-informed care, neurobiology of trauma, burnout, vicarious traumatization, compassion fatigue, ACEs, trauma treatment and assessment, and many more.