Military Matters: The Importance of Brief Trauma-Focused Treatment within Substance Use ‎Disorder Specialty Care: Written Exposure Therapy (WET)‎

by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 30, 2021 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, Military and Combat, Trauma Blog Topics, Uncategorized

There are high rates of trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among treatment-seeking veterans with substance use disorders (SUD). The process of re-integrating into the civilian world while coping with psychological and physical conditions may...

Clinician’s Corner: Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth Through Participation in a ‎Speakers’ Collective: Clinical Implications for Supporting the Survivor’s Mission‎ – Christine Valdez, PhD, and Laurie Fields, PhD

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

Communities Healing and Transforming Trauma (CHATT) is a speakers’ collective developed at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Trauma Recovery Center (TRC). The UCSF TRC was founded in 2001 to test a new model of comprehensive services for victims...

Developmental Traumatology: Complex Trauma, Social Pragmatic Communication, and the Speech, Language, Hearing Scientist – Yvette D. Hyter, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

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

I have worked as a speech, language and hearing (SLH) scientist for 37 years, a discipline traditionally referred to speech-language pathology, but “pathology” implies an ableist perspective (Nielsen, 2021), prompting my use of a different nomenclature....

Shame Mediates Emotion Dysregulation and PTSD Symptoms in Combat Veterans – Aidan Flynn, MS, Alexander Puhalla, PhD, & Amanda Vaught, PsyD

by ISTSS Blogs | Aug 30, 2021 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, Military and Combat

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most prevalent mental health disorders among US veterans (Magruder et al., 2005) and is associated with emotion dysregulation (i.e., an inability to effectively respond to emotional experiences; Gratz & Roemer,...

How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted patients receiving PTSD care? – Carmen McLean, PhD, Sonya Norman, PhD, & Sudie Back, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Aug 16, 2021 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, COVID-19

One of the biggest changes to the mental health landscape since the onset of the pandemic has been the rapid and wide-scale switch from in-person therapy to telehealth. The adoption of telehealth may represent a silver lining to the pandemic, insofar as telehealth can...

Clinician’s Corner: The Transcending Trauma Project, Part II: ‎A Systemic Perspective Of Coping and Adaptation: The Inextricable Connection Between ‎Individual and Family – Bea Hollander-Goldfein, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Jul 29, 2021 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, StressPoints

As discussed in the last issue of ISTSS StressPoints’ Clinician’s Corner column, in 1993, the Transcending Trauma Project (TTP) was launched under the auspices of the Council for Relationships, affiliated with Jefferson University, and located in...