by kdhowell@umass.edu | Nov 19, 2024 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, Trauma Blog Topics
Home 9 Category: Clinical Issues and Treatment State of the Science for Telehealth-Delivered Psychotherapy for Trauma Sequelae Madeline J. Bruce, Antonio F. Pagán, & Ron Acierno We hope our state-of-the-science review can ease the unfortunate, yet...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...