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Using Latent Class Analysis to Support ICD-11 Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Diagnosis in a Sample of Homeless Adults – Renee Armstrong Ph.D., Lisa Phillips, MPsych, Nathan Alkemade MPsych, Meaghan O’Donnell, MPsych

by | Jun 26, 2020 | Assessment and Psychometrics, Clinical Issues and Treatment, Diversity and Multicultural Issues, International and Global, JOTS Highlights

Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) is a new diagnosis that recognises that different types of traumatic experiences can impact individuals in ways that the more established diagnosis of PTSD does not capture (World Health Organization, 2018: WHO). The...

Making PTSD Screening More Likely by Identifying Abbreviated Versions of the PCL-5 – Timothy J. Geier, PhD, Sadie Larsen, PhD., & Terri deRoon-Cassini, PhD

by | May 9, 2020 | Assessment and Psychometrics, Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Life after a traumatic injury can be scary and stressful. Beyond the general stressful life disruptions and uncertainties, there are often numerous follow-up appointments for the patient, such as physical rehabilitation, wound care, and pain management. There are also...

Worst life events and media exposure to terrorism – Rebecca R. Thompson, PhD; E. Alison Holman, PhD, FNP; & Roxane Cohen Silver, PhD

by | May 9, 2020 | Assessment and Psychometrics, Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Unfortunately, all people are likely to have something bad happen to them over the course of their lifetimes. This includes both individually-experienced events, such as the loss of a loved one or experience of a physical assault, as well as collective traumas, or...

Clinician’s Corner: Recognizing Traumatic Brain Injury Among Survivors of Intimate Partner Abuse – Anne P. DePrince, PhD, and Kim Gorgens, PhD

by | May 4, 2020 | Assessment and Psychometrics, Clinical Issues and Treatment, StressPoints

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) have been called the signature injury suffered by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and have been singled out as a risk factor for the development of dementing disease among world-class athletes. With...

How to Predict and Mitigate Risk of Evacuation of US Service Members from Deployed Settings for Behavioral Health Reasons – Mary Thornquist, PhD, James Leonard, MPH, Melissa Fraine, MPH, Christopher Loftis, PhD, & John Davison, MBA, PhD

by | Apr 21, 2020 | Assessment and Psychometrics, Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights, Military and Combat

Acute behavioral health crises are one of the leading causes of medical evacuation from combat operations for American service members (Williams, Stahlman, & Oh, 2017), and evacuees with psychiatric disorders are less likely to return to duty (Cohen, et al.,...