by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 29, 2022 | International and Global, StressPoints
Pakistan has experienced historic and devastating flooding resulting from the interaction between melting glaciers in the northern regions of the country and monsoon rains. Over 1,400 lives have been lost, and over 33 million people are directly affected, experiencing...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jul 28, 2022 | International and Global, StressPoints
The relevance of ISTSS remains high during these troubling times when much of the news from around the world is that of trauma. Once considered outside of the range of normal human experience (DSM-III), it is now recognized that exposure to traumatic events is...
by ISTSS Blogs | May 4, 2022 | International and Global, StressPoints
Grief and mourning are expressed differently in every culture. However, research on bereaved populations has tended to be dominated by Western perspectives since Freud's (1917) Mourning and Melancholy. Drawing from more recent bodies of knowledge in clinical...
by ISTSS Blogs | May 2, 2022 | International and Global, JOTS Highlights
If we wanted to identify the group of people with the most traumatic histories globally, we would probably all think of refugees first. Refugees are a group that has been exposed to many traumatic events such as war, torture, sexual violence and had to leave their...
by ISTSS Blogs | Mar 31, 2022 | International and Global, StressPoints
Since the 30th of January, 2020, COVID-19 has been designated as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO) due to its unprecedented threat to global health. The lockdown measures and quarantines have altered...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 27, 2022 | International and Global, StressPoints
The South Asian community includes individuals originating from the Indian sub-continent region (e.g., India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives). Asian Indians (i.e., individuals of Indian descent) are a subgroup of the South Asian community....