Dr. Brett Litz
Lab Director / Principal Investigator
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Dr. Brett Litz is a clinical psychologist and Professor in the Department Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. He is also a research psychologist at the VA Boston Healthcare System, where he directs the mental health core of the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiological Research and Information Center (MAVERIC). Dr. Litz’s recent research entails generating methods for the measurement-based care of PTSD, and developing methods to promote practice-based research in the DoD and the VA. He has also developed and continues to evaluate a new measure of moral injury as an outcome, the Moral Injury Outcomes Scale (MIOS), and is conducting a VA funded national Veteran population study of the prevalence and impact of moral injury. Dr. Litz just completed a VA funded multisite clinical trial testing an expanded version of Adaptive Disclosure, a treatment designed to treat moral injury and traumatic loss and continues to examine novel ways of helping service members and Veterans with PTSD stemming from moral injury and loss and moral injury and traumatic loss as separable problems. Finally, Dr. Litz has been funded by the state of California, through the Veterans Transition Center of California, to conduct a program evaluation of Veterans Healing Veterans, a Norway model designed to heal trauma and moral injury among incarcerated Veterans in California State Prisons. Dr. Litz is a fellow of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the American Psychopathological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science.