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Biography
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 currently holds academic posts at Loyola University Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Career
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.
From 1988 to 1992, Everly served as Chief Psychologist and Director of Behavioral Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Homewood Hospital Center in Baltimore.
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, and Universidad de Weiner (Peru).
Books
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 Press
Honors and awards
- 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