Clinician’s Corner: Cognitive Biases as a Barrier to Accurate Trauma and PTSD Assessment – Colton S. Rippey, MS

by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 27, 2022 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, StressPoints

The cornerstone to any psychological treatment plan is an accurate diagnosis from a comprehensive assessment. However, due to the wide array of psychopathology and overlapping diagnostic criteria within the two predominant psychiatric classification systems, the...

Why Me? Why Now? Abstract Thinking Predicts the Development of PTSD Symptoms in Student Paramedics – Aimee McKinnon, PhD, DClinPsy, Hjördis Lorenz, PhD, Paul Salkovskis, PhD, & Jennifer Wild, DClinPsy

by ISTSS Blogs | Dec 15, 2021 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

What is abstract thinking and why is it important? Imagine that you are a student paramedic. You arrive at the scene of an accident, recognise symptoms that you learnt about recently, but you cannot remember what you need to do next. What might go through your head?...

Lifelong trauma sequelae: Complex PTSD in a new lifespan model – Andreas Maercker, MD, PhD, Myriam Thoma, PD, PhD, Shauna Rohner, PhD, & Florence Bernays, MSc

by ISTSS Blogs | Dec 6, 2021 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Clinicians around the world have found that prolonged traumatic experiences, particularly in childhood and adolescence, can result in a complex presentation of trauma sequelae. These have been newly defined by WHO as complex PTSD diagnosis in ICD-11. In addition to...

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...

Human Rights and Policy: Narrowing the Treatment Gap for Complex Trauma Populations – Jennifer VanBoxel

by ISTSS Blogs | Nov 30, 2021 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, StressPoints

Growing empirical evidence suggests that the most severe traumatic stress symptoms develop in individuals with accumulated interpersonal trauma histories (Cloitre et al., 2020; Karatzias et al., 2018a; 2018b; Knefel et al., 2019). Polytraumatization that is...

Racial/Ethnic and Neighborhood Income Disparities in Traumatic Stress and Grief Reactions among Youth: The Potential Mediating Roles of Polyvictimization and Exposure to Homicide – Robyn Douglas, MA, Lauren Alvis, PhD, Julie Kaplow, PhD, ABPP

by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 8, 2021 | Clinical Issues and Treatment

Childhood trauma is an increasingly significant public health issue, influenced by various individual, relational, communal, and societal factors. Studies suggest that specific racial/ethnic groups (i.e., Black and/or Latino) are at greater risk of increased exposure...