The Trauma Healing and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments (THRIVE) Program at Montefiore Einstein is a specialty clinic dedicated to providing evidence-based therapy for trauma-related disorders. THRIVE offers psychotherapy for patients between the ages of 18 and 64 who are seeking treatment for trauma-related distress, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD, racism-related stress and trauma, interpersonal violence, exposure to disasters and trauma related to marginalization based on gender expression. The THRIVE Research Lab is dedicated to studying people’s reactions to stressful environments or circumstances, such as victimization, war, racial trauma, discrimination, bullying, mental illness and natural disasters. We also study trauma-informed care practices for individuals, organizations, and governments.

Patterson, A.L., Delker, B.C., Musicaro, R. M., Byrne, C., & Noll, L.K. (2025). Impact of trauma recognition on recovery optimism and blame: An experimental vignette study of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome). Stigma and Health. In press. 

Musicaro, R. M., Valdespino-Hayden, Z., Martinez Lozano, M., Noboa Ramos, C., Joshipura, K. & Lowe, S. (2025). Relationships between pre-disaster depression and physical health conditions and post-disaster mental health among high-risk Puerto Rican adults, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Parnes, M. F., Amort, B., Calderon-Smith, C., Chambers, E. C. Musicaro, R., (2024). Children’s engagement with climate change on social media and impacts on mental health: A narrative review. Current Pediatric Reports.

Gallo, L., Bhambhani, Y., Lu, T., Musicaro, R, Roske, C, Richard, J. T., Delgado, G. E., Holzman, S. Baker, Z, Starrels, J, Stotts, A, Deng, Y, Rogers, C, Perez, H. R., Norton, B. T., Gabbay, V. (2024).  A randomized trial evaluating acceptance and commitment therapy and smart phone care management application to augment buprenorphine therapy for opioid use and chronic pain, Substance Use & Addiction Journal

Budagzad-Jacobson, R. S., Musicaro, R. M., Marin, C. E., Silverman, W. K.  & Lebowitz, E. R. (2024). Family accommodation in anxious irritable and anxious non irritable youth. Behavior Therapy

Musicaro, R. M., Parnes, M., Lowe, S., Clayton, S., Holder, C., Schwartz, S. (2024). The Climate and Racial Justice Scale: A preliminary examination among a sample of undergraduate and graduate students. Journal of Environmental Psychology

Holzhauer, C., Sherrill, A., Ellis, R. A. & Musicaro, R. M. (2024). The association between post-traumatic stress disorder and depression severity with stress-induced alcohol craving is mediated by emotion dysregulation among women veterans, Journal of Misuse and Abuse

Musicaro, R. M., Yeguez, C. E., Rey, Y., Silverman, W. K., Pettit, J. W. (2024). Anxious bullies: Parent distress and youth anxiety interact to predict bullying perpetration, Child Psychiatry and Human Development.

Musicaro, R. M., & Langer, D. (2022). Applying shared decision-making to screening for trauma and adversity in youth. Child Abuse and Neglect.

Musicaro, R. M., Bellet, B. & McNally, R. J. (2021). Is avoidance the only issue? A case study of "self-triggering" in combat PTSD, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy.  

Musicaro, R. M., Ford, J., Suvak, M. K., Sposato, & A., Andersen, S. L. (2019). Sluggish cognitive tempo and trauma in children, Anxiety, Stress & Coping.

Musicaro, R. M., Spinazzola, J., Arvidson, J., Swaroop, S. R., Goldblatt Grace, L, Yarrow, A. & Ford, J. (2017). The complexity of adaptation to childhood polyvictimization in youth and young adults: recommendations for multidisciplinary responders, Journal of Trauma, Violence and Abuse.

Price, M., Spinazzola, J., Musicaro, R. M., Turner, J., Suvak, M., Emerson, D., & van der Kolk, B. (2017). Effectiveness of an extended yoga treatment for women with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 

van der Kolk, B., Gapen, M., Hodgdon, H., Musicaro, R. M., Suvak, M. & Spinazzola, J. (2016). A randomized controlled study of neurofeedback for chronic PTSD, PLOS one.

Addis, D.R., Pan, L., Musicaro, R. M., Schacter, D.L. (2016). Divergent thinking and constructing episodic simulations. Personality and Individuals Differences, (1):89-97 DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2014.985591.

Addis, D. R., Musicaro, R. M., Pan, L. & Schacter, D. L. (2010).  Episodic simulation of past and future events in older adults:  evidence from an experimental recombination task, Psychology and Aging, Vol. 25, No. 2, 369-376.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Musicaro, R. M. & Silverman, W. K. (2022). What is anxiety? In Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Health. Elsevier Ltd.

 Suvak, M. K., Musicaro, R. M., & Hodgdon, H. (2020). Emotional granularity in PTSD. In M. T. Tull & N. A. Kimbrel (Eds.). Emotion and PTSD (pp. 377-406). Elsevier: Cambridge, MA.