President’s Message – Eric Bui, MD, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | May 27, 2021 | International and Global, StressPoints

I am delighted to begin this column by highlighting the release on Earth Day of our ISTSS Briefing Paper on Global Climate Change and Trauma. This outstanding collective work describes how climate change increases the frequency and severity of traumatic events as well...

The Transgenerational Legacy of Totalitarian Regimes: System and Ecology of Trauma – Elena Cherepanov, PhD, LMHC

by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 16, 2021 | International and Global

This blog piece ​introduces ground concepts aiming to overcome fragmentation in individual, collective, and transgenerational trauma studies and draws from a recently published book entitled Understanding Transgenerational Legacy of Totalitarian Regimes:...

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...