by ISTSS Blogs | May 5, 2020 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, COVID-19, StressPoints
The context of the COVID-19 pandemic places us in unique circumstances that call for flexible and creative ways to help ourselves and each other. Nearly half of Americans polled by Kaiser recently reported that the coronavirus crisis was harming their mental health,...
by ISTSS Blogs | May 4, 2020 | COVID-19, StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
As a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, I’ve been listening to my clients’ reactions, as well as those of my family and friends, to the first couple of months of the COVID-19 crisis. Universally, people have been reacting to the “surreal”...
by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 21, 2020 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, COVID-19, StressPoints, Student and Early Career
According global epidemiology surveys, 70% of individuals will experience a traumatic event at some point during their lifetime. Unfortunately, exposure to a traumatic event such as a physical assault or a natural disaster either directly or as a witness can lead to...
by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 20, 2020 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, COVID-19, International and Global, JOTS Highlights
Human Remains, Grief, and Posttraumatic Stress in Bereaved Family Members Fourteen Years after September 11, 2001, a forthcoming manuscript in the Journal of Traumatic Stress describes the mental health effects on 9/11-bereaved family members after being notified...
