Edward S. Kubany, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Edward S. Kubany, Ph.D., ABPP, received a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Hawaii. Dr. Kubany is a research psychologist at the National Center for PTSD, Pacific Islands Division, (Department of Veterans Affairs). He also has a small private practice at the Behavior Therapy Clinic, in Honolulu, where he works exclusively with trauma survivors-primarily women with victimization histories of intimate partner violence and/or sexual abuse, and surviving family members of victims of sudden death. He is Affiliate Graduate Faculty in the Psychology Department at the University of Hawaii.
Dr. Kubany is a Diplomate in Behavioral Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology, with a subspecialty in the area of cognitive-behavioral assessment and therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He is also a Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and is Board Certified in Domestic Violence and Bereavement Trauma.
Dr. Kubany's research interests focus on assessment, treatment, and theoretical aspects of posttraumatic stress. He has authored more than 35 journal articles and book chapters. He has made more than 30 presentations at national and international conferences since 1990. Dr. Kubany is perhaps best known for his research on the assessment and treatment of trauma-related guilt, conducted primarily with combat veterans and physically and sexually abused women. He is first author of 12 articles on guilt, all published since 1994. He was on the Editorial Board of Psychological Assessment, a journal of the American Psychological Association, from 1996 to 1998. He was Chairman of the Research & Development Committee at the Honolulu VA from 1997 to 2000.
Dr. Kubany is the senior developer of three validated scales: (1) The Trauma-Related Guilt Inventory, (2) the Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire (which assesses lifetime exposure to a wide range of traumatic events, and (3) the PTSD Screening and Diagnostic Scale. Articles on the psychometric properties of these instruments have been published in three articles in Psychological Assessment. All three instruments have been published by Western Psychological Services (WPS) and are now commercially available from WPS. Dr. Kubany is also in the final stages of validating a Personal Happiness Questionnaire, designed to assess treatment outcomes in psychotherapy.
Dr. Kubany has developed a brief, psychoeducational intervention for treating PTSD called Cognitive Trauma Therapy (CTT). Two treatment-outcome studies have been conducted to evaluate the efficacy of CTT with ethnically diverse samples of formerly battered women. In the first study, published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress, PTSD remitted as a diagnosis in 30 of 32 women (94%) who completed CTT. There were also highly significant reductions in depression and guilt and substantial increases in self-esteem. In the second study, published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, PTSD remitted in 74 of 84 women (88%) who completed CTT. In both studies, gains were maintained at 3- and 6-month follow-up assessments, and CTT was equally as effective with ethnic minority women as with White women.
Dr. Kubany was invited by New Harbinger Publications to write a self-help book for battered women based on CTT. Each of the chapters in Healing the Trauma of Domestic Violence: A Workbook for Women correspond to the various modules in CTT. The book is now finished and available from New Harbinger or from Amazon.com.
Dr. Kubany has been Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator of four federally funded grants. In the most recent project, Dr. Kubany validated a computerized, self-scoring, report-generating, computerized trauma history/PTSD screen in four different patient settings at Tripler Army Medical Center (substance abuse, outpatient psychiatry, family practice, and family advocacy). Dr. Kubany is currently preparing a grant proposal to evaluate the efficacy of CTT with Vietnam War veterans. He also plans to submit a grant application proposing to compare the efficacy of CTT conducted by Ph.D. therapists compared with CTT conducted by bachelor or masters level therapists who are also victim services providers.