Global Perspectives: Improving Care Quality and Preventing Maltreatment in Institutional Care in Sub-Saharan Africa – Tobias Hecker & Katharin Hermenau

by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 1, 2018 | International and Global, StressPoints

With more than 56 million orphans, sub-Saharan Africa is the most affected region worldwide regarding the number of orphans needing care (UNICEF, 2014). An orphan is hereby defined as a child under the age of 18, who lost one or both parents due to death from any...

From Our Members: Former Soviet Union, September 1990: (I)STSS in Moscow – Jacob D. Lindy and Bonnie L. Green

by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 1, 2018 | International and Global, StressPoints

Today’s international politics swirl around the issue of U.S.-Russia relations, specifically trust versus mistrust. In 1990, members of the Board of the (then) Society for Traumatic Stress Studies traveled to Moscow for a symposium on traumatic stress. The...

Global Perspectives: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Among University Students and the Relationship with Lifetime Mood and Anxiety Disorders – Margaret McLafferty, PhD, Cherie Armour, PhD, and Siobhan O’Neill, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Jul 17, 2018 | International and Global, StressPoints

Mental health disorders are highly prevalent among university students and appear to be increasing in severity (Prince, 2015; Thorley, 2017). Some students commence university with pre-existing psychological problems, but for others the stress of university life can...

ISTSS Statement on the Importance of Keeping Families Together – NULL

by ISTSS Blogs | Jun 23, 2018 | International and Global, News

ISTSS Statement on the Importance of Keeping Families Together and the Traumatic Stress Associated with Child Separation from Parents and Caregivers The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) is an international interdisciplinary professional...

Human Rights and Policy: Exploring the Need for Trauma-Informed Evaluations in Asylum-Seeking Processes – Sophie Brickman

by ISTSS Blogs | Jun 1, 2018 | International and Global, StressPoints

News of trauma across the globe is highly prevalent in today’s mainstream media, with an intense focus on the worldwide refugee crisis. The UN Refugee Agency estimates that, as of 2016, there are approximately 22.5 million refugees that have been forcibly...

Global Perspectives: Trauma Informed Practice with Survivors of Human Trafficking – Katy Robjant and Cornelius Katona

by ISTSS Blogs | Mar 22, 2018 | International and Global, StressPoints

Human trafficking is a form of modern slavery that involves the forced movement of people internally within countries, or externally across borders. Trafficking can be for a variety of purposes including, but not limited to, forced labour, sexual exploitation, or...