President’s Message – Eric Bui, MD, PhD, ISTSS President

by ISTSS Blogs | Jul 29, 2021 | Diversity and Multicultural Issues, StressPoints

I hope everyone is spending as nice a summer as you can despite the ongoing health crisis. I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone of the importance of having a diverse organization and to share a few steps that ISTSS has taken toward diversifying our...

Trauma and Diversity: Race-Based Stress for Black People: Impacts and Treatment Directions – Tanya Hunt, Richard Valencia, Melinda Joseph, Bita Ghafoori and Lynn C. Waelde

by ISTSS Blogs | May 27, 2021 | Diversity and Multicultural Issues, StressPoints

Race-based stress is the psychological distress linked to experiencing racism or a racial discriminatory act (Plummer & Slane,1996). Carter et al. (2013) linked race-based stress “to a person’s emotional and psychological reactions and its subsequent...

Trauma and Diversity: Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Principles Operationalized through the Trauma-Informed ‎Care (TIC) Framework – Lauren Ng, PhD, and Archana Basu, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 1, 2021 | Diversity and Multicultural Issues, StressPoints

The past year has been one of loss and upheaval for millions of people, particularly for people who are Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC). The syndemics of racism and COVID-19, one chronic and the other acute, have left a trail of trauma, grief and stress...

SIG Spotlight: Moral injury and Systemic Betrayal in the United States ‎ – Amanda J. Khan and Wyatt R. Evans

by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 28, 2021 | Diversity and Multicultural Issues, SIG Spotlight, StressPoints

As the world enters the second calendar year of the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic, the United States (U.S.) faces another ongoing national issue – racism, marginalization and oppression of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC). While the...

Trauma and Diversity: The Bidirectionality of Trauma and Social Determinants of Health: A Call for Enhanced ‎Conceptualization of Intersectionality – Ryan Holliday and Alisha Desai

by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 28, 2021 | Diversity and Multicultural Issues, StressPoints

Editor’s note: For more information on this topic, see ISTSS’ free webinar recording, Trauma from an Intersectional Perspective, and scroll down for additional resources from the presenters. A burgeoning body of trauma research has emerged over the past...

Announcing the Awardees for the Inaugural Journal of Traumatic Stress ‎Editorial Fellowship for Underrepresented Scholars – Patricia K. Kerig, Editor in Chief, Journal of Traumatic Stress

by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 28, 2021 | Diversity and Multicultural Issues, StressPoints

In the span of my adult life, the current zeitgeist feels like a brave new world in respect to the far-ranging, harmonized, inspired and inspirational chorus of voices speaking out at all levels of society about systemic racism, disparities and the underrepresentation...