Clinician’s corner: A call for ground-up and trauma-informed approaches in the development of ‎alcohol interventions for North American Indigenous Peoples – Nicole H. Weiss, PhD & Nichea S. Spillane, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Dec 13, 2023 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, Diversity and Multicultural Issues, StressPoints

Alcohol is a primary determinant of health disparities facing North American Indigenous (NAI) peoples of the United States and Canada, including American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and other Native Pacific Islander peoples in the United States, and First...

Exposure to potentially traumatic experiences and mental health care use in adolescents – Annika Skandsen, Tormod Bøe, Mari Hysing, Martin H. Teicher, Kristin Gärtner Askeland, and Liv Sand

by ISTSS Blogs | Dec 8, 2023 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Exposure to Potentially Traumatic Experiences during Development Children and adolescents subjected to potentially traumatic experiences (PTEs) are at an elevated risk of developing psychopathology during their adolescent years compared to their unexposed...

Written Exposure Therapy vs. Expressive Writing via Telehealth in Undergraduates – Ellis, Darnell, & Orcutt

by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 23, 2023 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is prevalent on college campuses (12.4%; Boyraz et al., 2016) and is associated with greater mental and physical health problems, as well as negative academic outcomes (e.g., lower GPS and drop-out; Bachrach & Read, 2012;...

Body- and movement-oriented therapy for PTSD: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis – van de Kamp, Emck, & Cuijpers

by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 16, 2023 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Besides specific PTSD symptoms, such as intrusions, avoidance and negative alterations in thoughts and mood, PTSD is a disorder that involves problems with arousal regulation, body- and self-awareness. Current treatments, such as exposure, EMDR, and cognitive...

Predicting optimal PTSD treatment outcomes in patients with PTSD related to childhood abuse – van Vliet, Bremer, van Bronswijk, Muntjes, de Jongh, & van Dijk

by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 2, 2023 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

The purpose of the secondary machine learning analyses conducted in our study was to determine whether patients with PTSD stemming from childhood abuse would benefit more from a phase-based treatment approach or direct trauma-focused approach. The researchers aimed to...

Developmental Traumatology: On holding and being held: Therapists, traumatized youth and ‎the pandemic – Sarah K. Abel, LICSW

by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 28, 2023 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, StressPoints

Many children who have suffered traumas early in their lives have also experienced profound losses of relationships. They may have lost or been separated from family members, experienced war and displacement, and/or lived in multiple placements. Because children with...