Education
9/2000–6/2002 University of Denver, Graduate School of Social Work
Earned MSW (earned LCSW 9/2004)
9/1994-6/1998 University of Maine
Earned Department of Psychology Research Award
Experience
12/2002- 6/2007 Lead Social Work Clinician/ Family Therapist Denver, Colorado
Intensive Services (Inpatient and Day Treatment) Psychiatric Units
The Children's Hospital
-Facilitated individual, family and group therapies
-Developed and coordinated DBT programming within the Department of Psychiatry
-Provided case management, treatment and disposition planning
-Participated in multidisciplinary treatment team staffings
-Supervised master's level social work interns
-Completed Psychiatric Crisis Assessments in the hospital ER when on-call
8/2005- 4/2007 Private Practice Psychotherapist Denver, Colorado
-Provide outpatient psychotherapy to adolescents, young adults and families
6/2002- 12/2002 Program Therapist Denver, Colorado
Courthouse Incorporated
-Facilitated individual, family and group therapies and staffings
-Developed initial evaluations, treatment plans, monthly reports and discharge summaries
-Participated in internal audits of charts
-Supervised bachelor's level mental health counselors
1/2001-5/2002 Transition Counselor Denver, Colorado
Gilliam Youth Services
-Coordinated educational planning with multiple school districts
-Tutored students preparing for the GED exam
-Facilitated transition planning for students returning to public school
6/1998- 5/2000 Research Coordinator Boston, Massachusetts
McLean Hospital/ Massachusetts General Hospital
-Coordinated psychosocial and medication trial research studies
-Performed clinical structured interviews (KSADS/SCIDS)
-Administered cognitive and neuropsychological testing
-Proofread and edited literature/journal submissions & grant proposals
-Analyzed data using statistical analysis programs (STATA)
4/2006-4/2007 Yoga Therapist Denver, Colorado
Denver Children's Home
-Taught two yoga classes per week to adolescent boys in residential treatment
9/2005-6/2007 Yoga Therapist Denver, Colorado
The Children's Hospital
-Taught weekly yoga classes to adolescents in the Eating Disorders Program
Presentations
Bortz, A. & Cradock, K. (2007). Lila yoga: A therapeutic intervention for traumatized children and a method of self-care for mental health providers. Annual Conference of the National Adolescent Perpetration Network, Albuquerque, NM, February 2007.
Bortz, A. & Cradock, K. (2007). Making the case for the use of lila yoga as an adjunctive therapy for traumatized children. Internation Journal of Yoga Therapy Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, January 2007.
Geller, D.; Beiderman, J.; Bellordre, C.; Kim, G.; Cradock, K. & Garfield, S. (1998) Developmental factors in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Relevance of age at onset. Annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Chicago, IL, October 1999.
Nangle, D.W.; Carpenter, E.M.; Grover, R.L.; Hansen, D.J.; Meyer, K.A. & Cradock,
K.J. (1998). The contraceptive-prophylactic behavior questionnaire (CPBQ): Internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Washington D.C., November 1998.
Nangle, D.W.; Carpenter, E.M.; Grover, R.L.; Hansen, D.J.; Meyer, K.A. & Cradock, K.J. (1998). The contraceptive-prophylactic behavior questionnaire (CPBQ: Convergent and discriminant validity. Annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Washington D.C., November 1998.
Publications
Coffey, B.; Beiderman, S.; Geller, D.; Spencer, T.; Kim, G.; Bellordre, C.; Frazier, J.; Cradock, K. & Magovcevic, M. (1999). Distinquishing illness severity from tic severity in children and adolescents with Tourette's disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Geller, D.; Beiderman, J.; Faraone, S.; Bellordre, C.; Kim, G.; Cradock, K. & Hagermoser, L. (2000). Disentangling chronological age from age at onset in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology.
Geller, D.; Beiderman, J.; Faraone, S.; Agranat, A.; Kim, G.; Cradock, K. & Hagermoser, L. (2000). Developmental aspects of obsessive-compulsive disorder: Findings in children, adolescents, and adults. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
Geller, D., Beiderman, J.; Faraone, S., Cradock, K. & Hagermoser, L. (2002). Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents with obsessive disorder: Fact or artifact? Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.