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...

Developmental Traumatology: Schools as a Context for Children’s Recovery After Climate ‎Change-Related Disasters – Marie-Claire Meadows, Noelle Serino, Emily Goddard, and Sarah R. Lowe

by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 27, 2022 | Assessment and Psychometrics, StressPoints

Between December 10 and 11, 2021, a series of 61 tornadoes tore through the Midwestern and Southern United States, claiming 88 lives in a season not typically marked by such disasters (Feuerstein & Livingston, 2021). Due to climate change, such extreme weather...

Media Matters: Could Your Body or Brain Be Putting You at Increased Risk for Developing Psychiatric ‎Symptoms Following Certain Media Consumption?‎ – Noelle Smith, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 27, 2022 | Assessment and Psychometrics, StressPoints

Many of the Media Matters pieces in StressPoints have examined the way different media platforms enable increased ease of access and frequency of portraying traumatic events (e.g., images or video footage of war, terrorism, mass casualties, natural events). Although...

Clinician’s Corner: Psychotherapy Interventions for Co-occurring PTSD and Substance Use Disorders

by ISTSS Blogs | Dec 2, 2021 | Assessment and Psychometrics, Clinical Issues and Treatment, Uncategorized

Important advances in the psychosocial treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders (SUD) have occurred over the past two decades. Whereas before it was believed that trauma work could not be initiated until the patient was abstinent...