Holly K. Shaw, RN, Ph.D.
Certified Trauma Specialist

Dr. Holly K. Shaw is a leading authority on childhood and adolescent mental health with a focus on bereavement, trauma, and violence. She earned her baccalaureate degree at Boston University, SON and her MS as a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatric-mental health nursing and PhD at Adelphi University.  Her expertise is sought by health care providers, school professionals and community leaders across the globe.  Dr. Shaw has lectured extensively, at schools, universities, and medical centers throughout the United States, Europe, Thailand, Canada, Mexico, the People’s Republic of China, Israel, Jordan, Uganda and Cambodia.

          Dr. Shaw is the author of peer-reviewed journal articles, a chapter on mental health issues of adolescence in Monographs on Adolescent Medicine, and a featured article about grieving children in Parent & Preschooler Newsletter. She has appeared on many television and radio programs including The Today Show, Good Morning America, and Good Day, New York. Dr. Shaw is frequently interviewed in various media, including Newsday, The New York Times, Newsweek, Seventeen, Young Miss, and LI Parenting. A chapter describing her work appears in Recovering from the Loss of a Sibling by Katherine Fair Donnelley. Dr. Shaw has produced a variety of teaching and training materials including the critically acclaimed, video, “When a Teenager Dies”, which won an American Journal of Nursing media award.

                     Dr. Shaw is an Associate Professor at Adelphi University and has recently been awarded a Faculty Development Grant to study the healing experiences of former child soldiers in he Teso region of Uganda, and an International Faculty Development Grant to participate in a seminar in collaboration in Jordan and Jerusalem.

She has been appointed by President Scott as a representative to the Department of Public Information at the United Nations.  She is an active member of the NGO community within the UN and serves on the NGO Mental Health Committee, the NGO Committee on UNICEF working group on Violence Against Children, and the NGO Alliance on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, of which she serves as the Executive Secretariat.  Dr. Shaw has been invited to represent the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies at the United Nations International Criminal Court Review to be held this summer in Kampala, Uganda.

Dr. Shaw was appointed to the Sigma Theta Tau International UN Affiliation Group of the Global Advisory Council for 2007-2009 and is currently the  Chair of the UN Task Force for the biennium 2009-2011.

Her expertise is widely sought in integrating crisis, trauma & bereavement work, & the complex process of promoting healing and resilience and enjoys a private clinical & consulting practice on the North Shore of L.I. She is the mother of three sons, Michael, Alex and Matthew and a 4 year old grandson, Shawn.