Child PTSD Symptoms Following Acute Trauma: Associations Among Informant Reports and Child HR Parameters – Bailey, Meiser-Stedman, Hiller, Haag, Lobo, & Halligan

by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 26, 2023 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, International and Global, JOTS Highlights

Research has shown that the first six months following trauma exposure in childhood is critical in the potential development of long-term posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), evidencing that beyond this initial six-month period natural decline in posttraumatic stress...

What are asylee’s impressions of leading psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress? – Cassidy, McQuaid, Heatherington, & Su

by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 12, 2023 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, International and Global, JOTS Highlights

Individuals seeking asylum (asylees) typically experience several traumatic stressors before and during their asylum journey, as well as an extended period of uncertain living status following their arrival (Steel et al., 2006). As a result, they have significantly...

President’s Message – Ananda Amstadter, PhD, ISTSS President

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...

President’s Message – Ananda Amstadter, PhD, ISTSS President

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...

Global Perspectives: Lineages of a Psychological Understanding of Mourning ‎and Grief in China – Jun Wen and Andreas Maercker, PhD, MD

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...

A Neglected Aspect of Refugee Relief Works: Secondary and Vicarious Traumatic Stress – Gökhan Ebren, Melis Demircioglu, & Okan Cem Çırakoğlu

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...