Tara Galovski, PhD, is an associate professor at the Center for Trauma Recovery of the University of Missouri–St. Louis. She is primarily interested in treatment outcome research with a current focus on the development and testing of Cognitive Processing Therapy within survivors of interpersonal assault suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In addition, Dr. Galovski investigates the impact of gender differences, chronicity of trauma, type of trauma and the presence of comorbid psychiatric disorders on the development and maintenance of PTSD as well as its resolution.