Making PTSD Screening More Likely by Identifying Abbreviated Versions of the PCL-5 – Timothy J. Geier, PhD, Sadie Larsen, PhD., & Terri deRoon-Cassini, PhD

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

Life after a traumatic injury can be scary and stressful. Beyond the general stressful life disruptions and uncertainties, there are often numerous follow-up appointments for the patient, such as physical rehabilitation, wound care, and pain management. There are also...

How to Predict and Mitigate Risk of Evacuation of US Service Members from Deployed Settings for Behavioral Health Reasons – Mary Thornquist, PhD, James Leonard, MPH, Melissa Fraine, MPH, Christopher Loftis, PhD, & John Davison, MBA, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 21, 2020 | Assessment and Psychometrics, Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights, Military and Combat

Acute behavioral health crises are one of the leading causes of medical evacuation from combat operations for American service members (Williams, Stahlman, & Oh, 2017), and evacuees with psychiatric disorders are less likely to return to duty (Cohen, et al.,...

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...

LGBT Service Members Report More Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment and Stalking than their Cisgender Heterosexual Peers – Ashley Schuyler, Cary Leonard Klemmer, Mary Marney, Sheree Schrager, Jeremy Goldbach, Ian Holloway, & Carl Castro

by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 1, 2020 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, Diversity and Multicultural Issues, JOTS Highlights

Read the article about this research in U.S. News & World Report. In the United States military, approximately 1 in 16 service members identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB), or transgender (Meadows et al., 2018). Recent years have seen a shift in the...

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...

Developing a gene-based meta-analytic approach to summarize existing candidate gene literature of HPA-axis gene variants and PTSD risk – Christina Sheerin & Ananda Amstadter

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

An area of significant research focus has been on identifying factors that may distinguish between individuals who do and do not develop PTSD, including pre-trauma biological vulnerability. Not surprisingly, given the role of the stress response in posttrauma...