Mitigating the Mental Health Impact of Political Violence

by lgrasser@med.wayne.edu | Aug 19, 2025 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, International and Global, Trauma Blog Topics

  Elena Cherepanov August 19, 2025   Political violence is a global crisis with systemic effects on entire societies. Drawing on the author's experience in global mental health and refugee support, Dr. Cherepanov explores how political violence impacts the...

Transforming Access to Evidence-Based Trauma Interventions in Low and Middle Income Contexts

by aisaeva@parthenonmgmt.com | Jun 10, 2024 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, International and Global, Trauma Blog Topics

Transforming Access to Evidence-Based Trauma Interventions in Low and Middle Income Contexts Srishti Sardana, Anushka R. Patel, Debra Kaminer, Duane D. Booysen, Kate Ellis, Christian H. Kristensen, & Katy Robjant May 20, 2024   Overview Low and middle-income...

Training Ukrainian mental health professionals in evidence-based treatments for traumatic ‎stress – Tetiana Nickelsen, PhD & Israel Liberzon, MD

by ISTSS Blogs | Dec 19, 2023 | International and Global, StressPoints

In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. As a result, millions of people have been exposed to war and war-related trauma, and the world is witnessing an immense mental health crisis. Ukrainian mental health systems cannot address this crisis effectively alone, and...

Global perspectives: Achieving inclusion of individuals with disability: The cultural dimension – Philomena J. Tanui, PhD‎

by ISTSS Blogs | Jun 28, 2023 | International and Global, StressPoints

Culture, defined as local beliefs, practices, role assignments and symbolic practices by which men and women live (Eagleton, 2016), can play a formative role in demarcating members of a shared collective. It can shape what members of a community perceive as important...

Genocidal Rape – An Understudied Source of Terror with Horrendous Consequences – Karan Varshney, MPH

by ISTSS Blogs | Jun 1, 2023 | International and Global, JOTS Highlights

Genocide constitutes violence on a scale that is considered a crime against humanity. Rape is perhaps the most inhumane form of terrors that can be committed by an individual. Genocidal rape hence can be deemed as the worst kind of wrongdoings that can be...

Terror leaves adolescents behind – Strøm, Dyb, Wentzel-Larsen, Stene, Schultz, & Stensland

by ISTSS Blogs | May 19, 2023 | International and Global, JOTS Highlights

Given the increase in mass shootings in schools in over the past decade (Irwin et al., 2021), it is imperative to pertain knowledge of how such events affect students. In particular, there is a need for early identification of survivors at high risk of having their...