Schedule At A Glance

Monday, November 1, 2021

This program is in progress and subject to change. All times are listed in U.S. Eastern Time.

8:00 am – 9:00 am
ISTSS Annual Business Meeting

10:00 am – 2:00 pm 
Pre-Meeting Institutes:

• DBT/CPT: A Combined Approach to Treating Comorbid BPD and PTS
• Providing Mental Health Support in Complex Political Context (CPC) ‎
• An Introduction to Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Postdisaster Distress: A ‎Transdiagnostic Treatment ‎

• Advances in Epidemiologic Methods for Trauma Researchers ‎
• Inner Resources for Stress: Using Mindfulness, Mantra, and Meditation for ‎Trauma Resilience and Recovery ‎
• Population Health Strategies for Sustaining Empowerment and Healing During ‎the COVID-19 Pandemic ‎
• Addressing Issues of High Risk in Child Trauma Treatment: Four Model Developers Share their Approach With Case Examples
• Peer Support and Self-Care for Mental Health and Healthcare Providers ‎Responding to Extended Public Health Crises ‎

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

• Oral Paper Presentations: Child and Adolescent Trauma Flash Talks ‎
• Workshop ‎Presentation: GRIEF Approach: A Comprehensive Treatment Model for ‎Traumatic Loss ‎
• Panel Presentations:
  • The Inconvenient Truth: A Panel on Race and Trauma - ‎Part II ‎
  • Panel on Trauma and Climate Change ‎
• Symposia:
  • Supporting EBP practice during the COVID-19 pandemic ‎for veterans and active duty military: Working together for ‎the field during challenging times ‎
  • Person-centered Approaches to Understand Trauma and ‎Loss ‎
  • Sexual Assault and Post-Assault Outcomes Among Sexual ‎and Gender Minorities ‎
• Networking/Special Interest Groups

• Invited Speaker
• Symposia:
  • Understanding the Relation Between Trauma and Externalizing ‎Problems Across Development ‎
  • The use of Ketamine in PTSD treatment - current state and future ‎directions ‎
  • Addressing Compassion Fatigue During the COVID-19 Pandemic ‎in Individuals, Groups, and Institutions ‎
• Workshop ‎Presentations:
  • Immigration-Related Trauma in Latino Youths: Sociocultural ‎Considerations for Mental Health Treatment ‎
  • Gender Diversity in the Clinic: Trauma Treatment with Trans ‎and Gender Diverse People ‎
• Panel Presentations:
  • Resilience Happens in Community Contexts: Harnessing Social ‎Networks and Community Resources for Pandemic Recovery ‎
  • Preventing and Responding to Mass Violence, Domestic ‎Terrorism, and Hate Crimes-What Works and Why? ‎
• Symposia:
  • Thinking outside the box: Understanding and overcoming barriers ‎and challenges in mental health treatment for refugees ‎
  • The impact of childhood trauma on the interacting mind ‎
  • Psychological Trauma in UK Prison Establishments and the Case ‎for Trauma Informed Care ‎

• Symposia
  • When Standard Treatment is not Enough: Augmenting and ‎Sequencing Care for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  • Understanding the Impact of Contextual and Psychological ‎Factors on Refugee Mental Health ‎
  • Gender-based Violence: Perspectives on Risk, Resilience, ‎and Recovery ‎
  • Implementing and Sustaining Effective PTSD Treatments in ‎Real-World Settings ‎
• Oral Presentations: Assessment and Diagnosis Flash Talks ‎
• Invited Speaker: Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal

• Panel Presentations:
  • Get Out of Your Ivory Tower: Forming Community-based ‎Partnerships to Develop Trauma-informed and Culturally ‎Relevant Interventions for Marginalized Populations‎
  • International Perspectives and Innovative Interventions for ‎Gender-Based Violence During the COVID-19 Era ‎
  • Maximizing the Healing Power of Partners: Different Models for ‎Involving Loved Ones in PTSD Treatment
  • Trauma-Informed Community Empowerment (TICE): A ‎Contextualized Framework for Strengthening Systems of Support ‎to Increase Wellbeing ‎
• Symposia:
  • Technology-Facilitated Screening for Trauma Exposure and ‎Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Hospital-Based Settings ‎
  • Where the Kids Are: Building and Contextualizing Trauma-‎Informed Practice Across Organizational Settings
  • Utilization of Novel Research Methods to Examine Parents’ Role ‎in Children's Post-Trauma Recovery ‎
• Multi-Media Presentation:AboutFace: PTSD Treatment Can Turn Your Life Around - A ‎Peer Education Campaign from the National Center for PTSD ‎
• Workshop ‎Presentation: The Field Guide for Barefoot Psychology: Using Biology-centered, ‎Stigma-reducing Psychoeducation to Enhance Mental Health ‎Promoting Behaviors Among Refugees ‎

• Panel Presentations:
  • Attending Mental Health in times of a Pandemic or another ‎Critical Incident: the importance of peers and communities
  • Attending to our Community: Supporting Hopi Well-being ‎
  • Addressing the Long-term Consequences of COVID-19 on ‎Traumatized Children and Families ‎
• Symposia:
  • The Traumatic Impact of COVID-19 on High-Risk Groups in the ‎UK
  • Early Psychological Interventions Following Sexual Assault to ‎Promote Resilience and Recovery ‎
  • Early Psychological Interventions Following Sexual Assault to ‎Promote Resilience and Recovery ‎
  • Intensive EBPs for PTSD: An examination of dosing, frequency, ‎and setting
  • Building the protective web to address community violence in ‎context
• Workshop ‎Presentation:Teaching Mindfulness to Improve Emotion Regulation and ‎Conflict De-escalation Skills in Police Officers and Other First ‎Responders ‎

• Keynote: Thema Bryant Davis

• Keynote: The Art of Effective Allyship: Learning to Step up and Step Back (Antiracism Training)

• Oral Paper Presentations: Biology and Medical Flashtalks
• Symposia:
  • Innovative Approaches for Addressing Migration-Related ‎Trauma Among Latin American Immigrant Youth in the ‎U.S. ‎
  • Working with Sexual and Gender Minority Male Sexual ‎Abuse Survivors: Training Peers, Mental Health Treatment ‎Trial, and Preferences for Next Steps ‎
  • Making Sense of Trauma Memories: Characteristics and ‎Responses to Trauma Narratives as Predictors of PTSD ‎Outcomes ‎
  • Trauma-Informed Care for Immigrants and Persons in ‎Situation of Displacement: Bolstering Faith-Based ‎Communities in the US and Colombia ‎‎
• Invited Speaker: Anne Wagner
• Panel Presentation: Understanding and Addressing the Mental Health Needs of ‎Healthcare Workers and School Staff during the COVID-19 ‎Pandemic ‎

• Networking/Special Interest Groups

• Symposia:
  • Molecular basis of fear memory and treatment of PTSD in real ‎world ‎
  • Psychological, cognitive and academic outcomes for children and ‎adolescents affected by disasters ‎
  • Psychosocial Approaches to the COVID-19 Outbreak in South ‎Korea ‎

Thursday, November 4, 2021

• Invited Speaker: Evaldas Kazlauskas
• Panel Presentation: The International Veteran Dataset Consortium (IVDC): Australia, ‎Canada, and the UK‎
• Workshop ‎Presentation: Imagery Rescripting As A Cross-Cultural Intervention For ‎Refugees and Asylum Seekers With PTSD ‎

• Invited Speaker: Noni Gaylord-Harden ‎
• Networking/Special Interest Groups

• Oral Paper Presenation: Mass Violence and Migration Flash Talks ‎
• Workshop ‎Presentations:
  • Trauma Informed Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence, ‎Sexual Assault, and Human Trafficking within the ‎Department of Veteran Affairs ‎
  • Using the Cultural Formulation to include context and ‎culture to psychotrauma ‎
• Panel Presentation: Diversifying Academic Publishing in Traumatic Stress ‎Studies: Opportunities for Change and Strategies for Moving ‎Forward ‎
• Multi-Media Presentation: How Creative Artists and Therapists Collaborate to Better ‎Communicate Developmental Trauma Practices with ‎Children and Families: Past, Present, and Future ‎
• Symposia
  • Mechanisms of Socioemotional Processing in PTSD: Multi-‎method Investigations of Markers in Brain and Behavior ‎
  • Current Perspectives on the Role of Cognitive Factors in the ‎Development, Maintenance, and Treatment of

• Keynote: Pim Cujipers ‎

• Networking/Special Interest Groups

• Panel Presentation:  Collaborating Globally to Make Traumatic Stress Data FAIR: ‎Where Do We Stand? What Do We Need?
• Invited Speaker: ‎Joseph P. Gone
• Symposia:
  • Engagement of Caregivers in the Treatment of Children after ‎Trauma ‎
  • Prioritizing the Well-being of Frontline Healthcare Workers: ‎Current Research on Risk and Resilience
  • Using a Minority Stress Framework to Understand the ‎Psychological and Physical Impact of Responses to Trauma and ‎Discrimination among LGBTQ Populations ‎
  • Innovative and Accessible Mobile Apps Addressing the Effects of ‎Trauma in Unique Populations: Approaches and Outcomes ‎
  • Intersectionality and Social Justice for Trauma-Informed ‎Biobehavioral Healthcare Training ‎
• Workshop ‎Presentation: Testing the Feasibility of Implementing Evidence Based Parenting ‎Interventions with Populations Affected by War Trauma in Post-‎Conflict Settings and Resettled Refugees ‎

• Panel Presentations:
  • Addressing Trauma in the Context of US Immigration Systems ‎and Policy: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches for Service and ‎Advocacy ‎
  • Transforming Trauma-Informed Care in Healthcare Settings - ‎Exploring the Implementation of the NCTSN TIOA in Diverse ‎Hospital Programs ‎
• Invited Speaker: Michael A. Lindsay ‎Overlooked Signs of Suicidality in Black Youth
• Invited Panel: Conflict-Related Trauma in an Ever-Changing World
  • ​Chair Belinda Liddell
    • Presenter:  Angela Nickerson
    • Presenter:  Marit Sijbrandij
    • Presenter:  Kenneth Miller
    • Presenter:  Peter Ventevogel
• Workshop ‎Presentations:

• Proyecto Mujer: Using a Culturally Modified, Gender-Specific ‎Integrated Evidence Based Treatment for Latinas with Substance ‎Use Disorders and Trauma Experiences ‎
• From Private Troubles to Public Issues: Sociological Imagination ‎and the Transformation of Trauma-Informed Care for Older ‎Adults ‎

• Symposia:
  • Contextualizing Trauma in Minoritized Populations: The Multi-‎Level Impact of Racial Stress, Racial Trauma, and Racialized ‎Violence on Health Inequities ‎
  • Context Matters: Considering a Continuum from Symptom ‎Presentation to Treatment Engagement and Adaptation for PTSD ‎
  • Trauma Exposure and PTSD in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Case Study Presentations:
  • Can online training and supervision work for therapists based in Kurdistan working with Yazidi women reporting feelings of being contaminated following sexual assault?
  • A Novel Adaptation of Phase-based Skills Training Affective Regulation (STAIR) for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Arabic Speaking Refugees
  • Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction Therapy: The Use of a Brief intervention to Treat Pandemic Related Guilt and Shame

• Invited Speaker: COVID-19 Grant Winners Panel ‎
• Oral Paper Presentations: Professionals Flash Talks ‎
• Symposia:
  • Written Exposure Therapy: Efficacy and Increased Reach in ‎Diverse Groups and Delivery Systems ‎
  • Expanding Stress and Trauma Research to Consider ‎Associations with Relationship and Community Functioning ‎
  • Advances in neuroimaging investigations of PTSD ‎

• Networking/Special Interest Groups ‎

• Panel Presentation: Responding to disasters: Supporting communities to strengthen ‎mental health after mass trauma ‎
• Symposia:
  • How Much Is Enough? Varying Models and Level of Care for ‎PTSD Across Four Samples‎
  • Refugee experiences of COVID-19 across the globe: examining the ‎associations between COVID-19 stressors and mental health ‎amongst refugees in The Netherlands, Australia, Indonesia and ‎Jordan ‎
  • Mental Health Needs among Healthcare Workers, Emergency ‎Personnel, and Other Essential Workers during the COVID-19 ‎Pandemic ‎

Friday, November 5, 2021

• Panel Presentation: Addressing Systemic Racism in Trauma Treatment: Moving ‎Beyond Platitudes to Integrate Meaningful Change Into ‎Service Delivery ‎
• Oral Paper Presentations: Clinical Interventions Flash Talks ‎
• Invited Speaker: Soraya Seedat ‎
• Workshop ‎Presentation: We're in this mess together: Family Coping and How to ‎Cope Together ‎
• Symposia:
  • Contextualizing COVID-19 Vulnerabilities: Socio-Ecological ‎Factors Shaping the Pandemic-Related Mental Health of ‎Marginalized Populations ‎
  • If a Trauma-focused Treatment is Evidence-Based, Why ‎Doesn’t It Work for Everyone? ‎
  • Joint Genetic Architecture of PTSD and SUD: Large-Scale Molecular Genetic Analyses

• Panel Presentations:
  • Complex Trauma and Justice ‎
  • Healing Contexts From The Twin Traumatic Stresses Of War And ‎The Covid-19 Pandemic ‎
  • No Time Like the Present: Treating Complex Presentations within ‎Intensive Treatment Programs ‎
• Multi-Media Presentation: Supporting Trauma-informed and Anti-Racist Practices with ‎Transition Age Youth: Use of a Documentary Film and a ‎Breakthrough Series Collaborative to Raise Awareness and ‎Promote System Transformation ‎
• Symposia:
  • Strategies to Improve PTSD Assessment: Advances in Face-to-‎Face Training and Virtual Technology ‎
  • Fostering Resilience Among Healthcare Workers Impacted by ‎COVID-19 ‎
  • Computational Causal Discovery for Traumatic Stress Research: ‎Finding Intervention Targets when Experiments cannot be ‎Conducted ‎
  • Understanding the Role of Parenting in Promoting Resilience ‎among Bereaved Children ‎
• Invited Speaker: Candice Monson ‎
• Networking/Special Interest Groups