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...

What aspects of child maltreatment impact capacity for resilience in adulthood? – Kristen Nishimi, MPH

by ISTSS Blogs | Jun 25, 2020 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Did you know that by age 18, almost one in five teenagers in the United States will have experienced some form of child maltreatment, such as physical, emotional and sexual abuse (Gilbert et al., 2009)? This finding is worrisome because child maltreatment is one of...

Emotion Dysregulation Prospectively Predicts PTSD Symptom Severity 3-Months after Traumatic Exposure – Courtney N. Forbes, Matthew T. Tull, Daniel Rapport, Hong Xie, Brian Kaminski, Xin Wang

by ISTSS Blogs | Jun 25, 2020 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Why study emotion dysregulation as a predictor of PTSD symptom trajectories? As many as one-third of individuals who have experienced a traumatic event develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Pietrzak et al., 2011), a psychiatric condition characterized by...

How do Black Men Seek Psychological Help after Trauma? – John Rich, M.D.

by ISTSS Blogs | Jun 23, 2020 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, Diversity and Multicultural Issues, JOTS Highlights

How and why people seek help after a traumatic event remains an area ripe for study. We know that trauma symptoms can be a potential barrier to seeking psychological help though in some cases they may serve to facilitate help seeking. Lack of access to health...

Continuing to Deliver Gold-Standard Treatment: Cognitive Processing Therapy during COVID-19 – Stefanie T. LoSavio and John C. Moring

by ISTSS Blogs | May 17, 2020 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, COVID-19, JOTS Highlights

In response to COVID-19, mental health providers have had to quickly and creatively adapt treatment delivery, with many transitioning to telehealth. Like those in other professions, many clinicians have likely found the shift to video-based work challenging (e.g.,...

Worst life events and media exposure to terrorism – Rebecca R. Thompson, PhD; E. Alison Holman, PhD, FNP; & Roxane Cohen Silver, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | May 9, 2020 | Assessment and Psychometrics, Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Unfortunately, all people are likely to have something bad happen to them over the course of their lifetimes. This includes both individually-experienced events, such as the loss of a loved one or experience of a physical assault, as well as collective traumas, or...