Dear readers,
I am writing to introduce myself as the incoming Editor of StressPoints. I am excited to serve ISTSS in this role. On behalf of ISTSS, I would like to extend immense gratitude to Dr. Christal Badour for doing a truly phenomenal job with StressPoints during her tenure as Editor. Dr. Badour set a high bar, and we will continue to strive for excellence and impact going forward.
I envision StressPoints as a platform to bring evidence-based, multidisciplinary ‘soundbites’ of topics and issues relevant to the field of traumatic stress to readership. StressPoints provides an ideal platform for bridging science with practice and/or policy, for amplifying innovations in education, science, or practice, for creating discourse around pertinent issues to our communities, and for reviewing media and literature of relevance to our readership. StressPoints is intended to be an easily digestible, accessible newsletter featuring succinct articles that illustrate a diversity of perspectives on traumatic stress. Going forward, I hope to amplify the involvement of early-stage investigators, to increase contributions from ISTSS members from around the world, to elevate the voices of those historically underrepresented in this arena, and to elucidate topics of interest and value to persons and communities who are underserved and understudied in the field of traumatic stress.
If you have any questions, ideas, or feedback about StressPoints, please do not hesitate to contact me: avujanovic@tamu.edu
I look forward to your perspectives. Please note that we have several open positions available! Please review the Call for Contributing Editors and contact me if you are interested in being involved.
Dr. Anka Vujanovic is Professor and Director of Clinical Training at Texas A&M University, where she is also Director of the Trauma and Stress Studies Center and the First Responder Consortium. Dr. Vujanovic’s research program is focused on understanding the complexity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and some of its most prevalent and high-risk correlates, including substance use disorders (SUD) and suicide risk, through the study of underlying psychological mechanisms relevant to treatment development. She is a licensed clinical psychologist actively engaged in the development of novel treatments for PTSD/SUD comorbidity and suicide risk reduction. Dr. Vujanovic serves as Associate Editor for the European Journal of Psychotraumatology, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, and Mindfulness. She has been a member of ISTSS for more than 15 years.