Using registries and electronic health record data to study posttraumatic psychopathology – Laura Sampson, Ananda B. Amstadter, Kelsey N. Serier, & Jaimie L. Gradus

by ISTSS Blogs | Mar 22, 2024 | Assessment and Psychometrics

Overview of Electronic Health Record data As in many fields, the use of “big data” has become more common in psychiatric research, alongside major technologic and computational advances in recent decades. Electronic health records (EHR) can be considered...

Grief vs. Depression: Are they related to the bereaved or the deceased? – Arda Bağcaz and Cengiz Kılıç

by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 2, 2024 | Assessment and Psychometrics

The loss of a loved one is a negative life event that most individuals go through at some point in their lives. Although the majority of bereaved people psychologically recover with time, some may develop depression and/or prolonged grief disorder (Zisook &...

Research Methods: The Case for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems – Margaret Morison, MA

by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 29, 2022 | Assessment and Psychometrics, StressPoints

Nonlinear dynamic systems (NDS) is a general theory that describes and predicts changes over time (i.e., dynamics; Gregson & Guastello, 2011). Whereas a linear approach assumes that input is proportional to output, NDS allows us to model sudden changes, such as...

Outline by Rachel Cusk – Howard Lipke, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | May 25, 2022 | Assessment and Psychometrics, StressPoints

Recent critiques appearing in respected magazines, Harper’s (Self, 2021), The New Yorker (Sehgal, 2022), and the literary website Lit Hub Daily (Johnson, 2022), have attacked contemporary fiction for portraying the effects of psychological trauma as central to...

Do disorders comorbid with PTSD differ between servicemen and women? – Walter, Levine, Madra, Beltran, Glassman, & Thomsen

by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 19, 2022 | Assessment and Psychometrics, Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Psychological comorbidity, or when mental health disorders co-occur, is an important health issue because it is common and may negatively affect quality of life and treatment for individuals with more than one disorder. In fact, approximately 80% of both civilians...

SIG Spotlight: The “Middle-Out” Approach to Conceptualizing (and Reconceptualizing) Traumatic Stress – Shane W. Adams, MA, and Christopher M. Layne, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Mar 31, 2022 | Assessment and Psychometrics, SIG Spotlight, StressPoints

The diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the DSM-5 have become the most inherently complex to date, with 20 possible symptoms, four factors (with some studies recommending seven factors), and 636,120 different symptom combinations (Armour et...