Exposure to potentially traumatic experiences and mental health care use in adolescents – Annika Skandsen, Tormod Bøe, Mari Hysing, Martin H. Teicher, Kristin Gärtner Askeland, and Liv Sand

by ISTSS Blogs | Dec 8, 2023 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Exposure to Potentially Traumatic Experiences during Development Children and adolescents subjected to potentially traumatic experiences (PTEs) are at an elevated risk of developing psychopathology during their adolescent years compared to their unexposed...

Written Exposure Therapy vs. Expressive Writing via Telehealth in Undergraduates – Ellis, Darnell, & Orcutt

by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 23, 2023 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is prevalent on college campuses (12.4%; Boyraz et al., 2016) and is associated with greater mental and physical health problems, as well as negative academic outcomes (e.g., lower GPS and drop-out; Bachrach & Read, 2012;...

Body- and movement-oriented therapy for PTSD: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis – van de Kamp, Emck, & Cuijpers

by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 16, 2023 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Besides specific PTSD symptoms, such as intrusions, avoidance and negative alterations in thoughts and mood, PTSD is a disorder that involves problems with arousal regulation, body- and self-awareness. Current treatments, such as exposure, EMDR, and cognitive...

Predicting optimal PTSD treatment outcomes in patients with PTSD related to childhood abuse – van Vliet, Bremer, van Bronswijk, Muntjes, de Jongh, & van Dijk

by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 2, 2023 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

The purpose of the secondary machine learning analyses conducted in our study was to determine whether patients with PTSD stemming from childhood abuse would benefit more from a phase-based treatment approach or direct trauma-focused approach. The researchers aimed to...

A Mother’s Pain: Vicarious Traumatic Stress After Race-Related Violence – Printz & Milan

by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 9, 2023 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Since the video of the brutal killing of Tyre Nichols was publicly released, various media outlets have repeatedly played clips of the video or described its contents. These illustrations of racialized violence may place a segment of our society at risk for vicarious...

Predicting long-term outcomes of Iraq War deployment – Vasterling et al.

by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 9, 2023 | JOTS Highlights, Military and Combat

Wars may end, but the mental health ramifications of stressful war-zone exposure can endure for many years for some military personnel and veterans. Identification of risk and resilience factors that differentiate the long-term course of posttraumatic stress disorder...