Human Rights and Policy: Improving Responses to Mental Health Crises: A Brief Review and Next Steps – Alyssa Jones, MA

by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 1, 2021 | International and Global

The last year has seen increased publicity regarding how to improve community responses, especially to mental health crises, by law enforcement. Historically, law enforcement officers have been the primary responders to mental health crises (Kisley et al., 2010), and...

Global Perspectives: The Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress – Miranda Olff, PhD, and Ulrich Schnyder, MD

by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 28, 2021 | International and Global, StressPoints

The Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress (GC-TS) is a rapidly growing collaborative of traumatic stress societies from all over the world, with professionals committed to promoting globally significant traumatic stress related activities that are best performed by...

Clinician’s Corner: The Assessment and Treatment of PTSD in South Africa: ‎ A Move Towards Effectiveness – Duane D. Booysen, MA‎

by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 28, 2021 | International and Global, StressPoints

Over the last few decades, several trauma-focused psychotherapies have accrued substantial evidence to effectively treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Further development in the field of traumatic stress research has been the evaluation of empirically...

Global Perspectives: Cultural Evolution, Diagnosis and Treatment of PTSD in Rwanda – Celestin Mutuyimana, MSc, and Andreas Maercker, PhD, MD

by ISTSS Blogs | Nov 24, 2020 | International and Global, StressPoints

Twenty-six years have passed since the genocide against the Tutsi people, a devastating traumatic experience for the Rwandan population in East Africa. Before the genocide, PTSD was not known in Rwanda. This was likely due to a shortage of professionals in the mental...

ISTSS Global Travel Award Campaign Reaches Goal! – Nathan Bick, Eric Bui, Rick Koepke, Alyssa Rheingold, Soraya Seedat

by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 21, 2020 | International and Global, StressPoints

The International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies celebrates the completion of its ambitious $100,000 Global Travel Award Campaign! Led by the vision and generosity of two ISTSS members who initiated the campaign with leadership gifts, the ISTSS Board then...

Understanding Economic Impacts of Policies that Further Traumatize Immigrant Children – Joey Mattingly, PharmD, MBA, PhD, Theresa Betancourt, ScD, MA

by ISTSS Blogs | Aug 13, 2020 | Diversity and Multicultural Issues, International and Global, JOTS Highlights

Approximately 33 million children migrate from one country to another each year and an estimated 17 million of whom were displaced due to conflict and violence (UNICEF, 2020). In the United States (U.S.), media attention has focused primarily on the tens of thousands...