Steven Marans, Ph.D., MSW is a child and adult psychoanalyst and was the co-director of the Yale Center for Traumatic Stress and Recovery at the Yale Child Study Center, School of Medicine where he was the Harris Professor of Child Psychoanalysis and Professor of Psychiatry and is now the Harris Professor Emeritus at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Marans is the co-founder of the Child Development-Community Policing (CD-CP) Program, a model for police-mental health collaborative responses to traumatic events, and he is co-developer of the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI), the only evidence-based early, trauma-focused intervention for children and families that interrupts and prevents the development of PTSD and related disorders. He has responded to and consulted about various mass casualty events around the US and internationally. Dr. Marans has written and presented extensively on childhood trauma, as well as on psychoanalytic perspectives on developmental psychopathology and is also the author of Listening to Fear, a book written for the lay public about understanding and helping children and families to navigate distress and trauma.