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...

Using Latent Class Analysis to Support ICD-11 Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Diagnosis in a Sample of Homeless Adults – Renee Armstrong Ph.D., Lisa Phillips, MPsych, Nathan Alkemade MPsych, Meaghan O’Donnell, MPsych

by ISTSS Blogs | Jun 26, 2020 | Assessment and Psychometrics, Clinical Issues and Treatment, Diversity and Multicultural Issues, International and Global, JOTS Highlights

Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) is a new diagnosis that recognises that different types of traumatic experiences can impact individuals in ways that the more established diagnosis of PTSD does not capture (World Health Organization, 2018: WHO). The...

ISTSS 2019: Reflections from A Global Travel Award Recipient Psychology and Boston: Sparking a New Flame – Felicien Izaturwanaho

by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 21, 2020 | International and Global, StressPoints, Student and Early Career

This past November, I had a unique opportunity of presenting my abstract at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) 35th Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. The conference theme was “Trauma, Recovery, and...

Death Notification, Grief, and Posttraumatic Stress: Implications for COVID-19 Deaths – Stephen J. Cozza, M.D., Joscelyn E. Fisher, Ph.D., Joshua C. Morganstein, M.D., Brian W. Flynn, Ed.D., Quinn M. Biggs, Ph.D., Rafael F. Zuleta, B.S., Carol S. Fullerton, Ph.D., David M. Benedek, M.D., Robert J. Ursano, M.D.

by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 20, 2020 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, COVID-19, International and Global, JOTS Highlights

Human Remains, Grief, and Posttraumatic Stress in Bereaved Family Members Fourteen Years after September 11, 2001, a forthcoming manuscript in the Journal of Traumatic Stress describes the mental health effects on 9/11-bereaved family members after being notified...

Effects of Narrative Exposure Therapy on PTSD, depression, and insomnia: A study with traumatized North Korean refugee youth – Jinme Park and Thomas Elbert

by ISTSS Blogs | Mar 30, 2020 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, International and Global, JOTS Highlights

North Korean refugee youth typically have been exposed to multiple traumatic experiences in their home country and during their flight (Park et al., 2019a). Consequently, they have high rates of trauma-related mental disorders including posttraumatic stress disorder...