Professional Experience
1984 – Pres. CEO for Clinical Affairs and Co-Founder. Community Connections

1999 – Pres. Executive Director, National Capital Center or Trauma Recovery and Empowerment

1979 – Pres. Private Practice individual psychotherapy & clinical supervision

1995 - 1998 Clinical Consultant, Maryland Correctional Institute for Women
1994 - 1996 Editorial Board Member, Violence Against Women

1991 — Pres. Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School

1983- 1988 Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, The George Washington University

1979 - 1984 Deputy Chief Clinical Psychology Training Section, Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington, DC

Licenses
Licensed to practice psychology in District of Columbia and Maryland

Education & Training
1974 Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Clark University

1971 M.A., Clinical Psychology, Clark University

1969 B.A , Wellesley College, 1969

Honors & Affiliations
2000 – Pres. Co-Principal Investigator
DC Trauma Collaboration Study funded under the Women, Co-Occurring
Disorders and Violence Study (funded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration , Department of Health and Human Services (SAMHSA)

2002 Pres. Principal Investigator
Integrated Service Project: Transitional Housing for Homeless Persons
(SAMHSA funded)

2003 — Pres. Principal Investigator
Project Hope: Trauma Services for Girls (SAMHSA funded)

2004 — Pres. Principal Investigator
Randomized Controlled Study of TREM & PTSD
(funded by National Institutes of Mental Health)

1998—2000 Team Leader, Women and Violence Coordinating Center Technical assistance to 14 federally funded grants on issues of trauma, mental health and substance abuse.

Publications
Books
Harris, M. The Twenty-Four Carat Buddha and Other Fables: Stories of Self-Discovery. Sidran Press, March 2004.

Harris, M. and Fallot, R, eds. Using Trauma Theory to Design Service Systems:, New Directions for Mental Health Services, Jossey Bass: San Francisco Spring 2001

Harris, M., Copeland, M. Healing the Trauma of Abuse: A Women’s Workbook, New Harbinger Press, 2000

Harris, M. Trauma Recovery and Empowerment: A Clinician’s Guide to Working With Women in Groups, Free Press, 1998

Harris, M. , Landis C. Sexual Abuse in the Lives of Women Diagnosed with Serious Mental Illness Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997

Harris, M. The Loss That is Forever: The Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of A Mother or Father, Dutton, Sept. 1995

Harris, M. , Geller, J. Women of the Asylum: Voices from behind the Walls 1840 — 1945, Anchor Books, 1994

Harris, M. Down from the Pedestal: Moving Beyond Idealized Images of Womanhood, Doubleday, 1994

Harris, M. and Bergman, H, eds. Case Management: Theory and Practice, Harwood Academic Press, 1993

Harris, M. Sisters of the Shadow, Oklahoma University Press, 1991

Harris, M. Clinical Case Management (ed. Leona L. Bachrach) New Directions For Mental Health Services, Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, 1988

Articles
Book Review, Regarding the Pain of Others, in Psychiatric Services, March 2004

Book Review, Unto Us a Child: Abuse and Deception in the Catholic Church. In Psychiatric Services, October, 2003

The Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model: Conceptual and Practical Issues in a Group Intervention for Women, Fallot and Harris, Community Mental Health Journal, December, 2002,

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Supported Housing Versus Continuum Housing for Homeless Adults with Severe Mental Illness, (McHugo, Bebout, Harris et al), Journal of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Fall 2001

The Relationship Between Dimensions of Violent Victimization and Symptom Severity Among
Episodically Homeless, Mentally Ill Women(with Goodman and Dutton), Journal of Traumatic
Stress Vol. 10, No 11997

Work Stories: Psychological Responses to Work in a Population of Dually Diagnosed Adults, (with et at.), Psychiatric Quarterly, Vol. 68, No.2, 1997

Treating Sexual Abuse Trauma With Dually Diagnosed Women, Community Mental Health Journal Vol.32, No. 4,1996.

Personal Myths about Work and Mental Illness: A Response to Lystaker and Bell, (with Bebout), Psychiatry, Vol. 58, 401-404, 1995

Episodically Homeless Women with Serious Mental Illness: Prevalence of Physical and Sexual Assault (with Goodman and Dutton), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol. 65, pp 468-478, 1995

Modifications in Severe Delivery and Clinical Treatment for Women Diagnosed with Severe Mental Illness Who Are Also the Survivors of Sexual Abuse Trauma, Journal of Mental Health
Administration, Vol. 21, pp 397 - 406, Fall 1994.

Contrasting Integrated and Linkage Models of Treatment for Homeless, Dually diagnosed Adults
(with John Kline, Richard Bebout and Robert Drake) in Minkoff and Drake (eds), Dual Diagnosis
of Major Mental Illness and Substance Disorder, New Directions for Mental health Services, San
Francisco, Jossey-Bass, pp. 95-106, 1991

In Search of Pumpkin Shells: Residential Programming for the Homeless Mentally Ill (with
Richard Bebout) in Lamb, Bachrach and Kass (eds.) Treating the Homeless Mentally III, APA
Press, Washington, D.C.), 1991

Redesigning Case Management Services for Work with Character- Disordered Young Adult patients, in Psychiatry takes to the Streets, N. Cohen (ed.), Guilford Press, New York, pp.156-176,1990

The Chronic Patient: Perspective on Homeless Mentally Ill Women (with Leona Bachrach, Ph.D), Hospital and Community Psychiatry, Vol. 41, pp. 253 -254, 1990

Case Management Strategies for Long-Term Clients with Severe Personality Disorders (with Richard Bebout, Ph.D), The Lines, Vol. VII, No. 1, pp. 4-8, 1990.

The Young Chronic Patient. In A Clinical Guide for the Treatment of Schizophrenia, A. Bellack (ed.) Plenum Press, New York, pp. 305-325, 1989

New Directions for Clinical Case Management, New Directions for Mental Health Services, Vol. 40, 87- 96, 1988

Case Management and Continuity of Care for the “Revolving Door” Patient (with Helen Bergman), New Directions for Mental Health Services, Vol. 40, 29-38, 1988

Clinical Case Management for the Chronically Mentally Ill: A Conceptual Analysis, (with Helen Bergman), New Directions for Mental Health Services, Vol. 40, pp. 5-14, 1988

Misconceptions About the Use of Case Management Services by the Chronic Mentally Ill (with Helen Bergman) Hospital and Community Psychiatry, Vol. 39, pp. 1276-1280, December, 1988

Capitation Financing for the Chronic Mentally Ill (with Helen C. Bergman), Hospital and Community Psychiatry, Vol. 39 pp. 68-72, January 1988.

The Narcissistically Vulnerable System (with Helen Bergman,), Psychiatric Quarterly, Fall, 1987
Differential Treatment Planning Young Chronic Patients (with Helen C. Bergman), Hospital & Community Psychiatry, pp. 638-643, June, 1987

Case Management with the Chronically Mentally III: A Clinical Perspective (with Helen C. Bergman), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol. 57, pp. 296-302, 1987.

Social Network Density and Rehospitalization Among Young Adults Patients (with Mary Dozier and Helen C. Bergman), Hospital and Community Psychiatry, Vol. 38, pp. 61-65, 1987

Individualized Network Planning for Young Adult Chronic Patients (with Helen C. Bergman, and Leona Bachrach), Psychiatric Quarterly, Vol. 58, Spring, pp. 51-56, 1986 - 87

Homer’s Odyssey: A Psychological Journey, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 46, pp. 288-299, 1986

Psychiatric and Non-Psychiatric indicators for Rehospitalization in a Chronic Patient Population
(with Helen C. Bergman and Leona Bachrach) in Hospital & Community Psychiatry, Vol. 37, pp.
630-631, June, 1986.

Substance Abuse Among Young Adult Chronic Patients (with Helen C. Bergman) Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal , Vol. IX pp. 49054, July, 1985.

Networking with young Adult Chronic Patients (with Helen C. Bergman), E~y~spc4~j Rehabilitation Journal, pp. 28-35, January, 1985.

Measuring Outcome, Letter, Hospital & Community Psychiatry (with Mary Dozier and Helen C. Bergman), pp. 1236-1237, December, 1984.

Reassessing the Revolving Door: A Developmental Perspective on the Young Adult Chronic Patient (with Helen C. Bergman.), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, pp. 281-289, April, 1984

The Young Adult Chronic Patient: Affective Responses to Treatment (with Helen C. Bergman), in Advances in Treating the Young Adult Chronic Patient, Pepper & Ryglewicz, eds., pp. 29-35, March, 1984

Youth of the 60’s (with Helen C. Bergman), Hospital & Community Psychiatry, Letter, p. 1164, December 1983.