Does Depression Symptom Severity Influence Response to PTSD Treatment among Older Male Veterans? – Kristen Walters

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

When you think about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, what is the primary commonality that comes to mind? Like most clinicians, you’d be correct to note their comorbidity; but is this due to the fact that PTSD and depression share diagnostic...

Large-scale traumatic events and their possible effects on children’s mental health hospitalization rates in New York State – Sze Yan Liu & Sungwoo Lim

by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 1, 2020 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Hospitalization rates for mental health conditions among children have been increasing locally and nationally in recent decades. This increase cannot be explained in terms of individual-level risk factors alone, suggesting short and long-term impacts of contextual...

Polytraumatization, mental health, and delinquency among adolescent gang members – Maria L. Pacella-LaBarbara

by ISTSS Blogs | Dec 24, 2019 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Gang members.  What thoughts and images cross your mind after reading that term?  Did it provoke ones of danger, violence, criminal activity, guns, or drugs? Did it elicit associations of individuals involved in the criminal justice system?   What about...

Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Still Going Strong After All These Years – Julian Ford

by ISTSS Blogs | Dec 24, 2019 | Assessment and Psychometrics, Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is inherently complex, encompassing symptoms that reflect a biopsychosocial interplay of physiology, emotion, cognition, motivation, behavior, relationships, and identity that occur when survival is threatened or irreparable harm...

Asserting the Construct Validity of the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) measurement instrument – Steve Geoffrion & Josiane Lamothe

by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 1, 2019 | Assessment and Psychometrics, JOTS Highlights

Clinicians who work with traumatized individuals often find positive meaning in their work and yet a high percentage of them remain vulnerable to burnout or traumatic stress. For this reason, many scientists have sought to develop scales to help them and others assess...

The Hong Kong Survey on the Epidemiology of Traumatic Experience and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder – Kitty Wu, Ph.D., Patrick Leung, Ph.D., & Corine Wong, Ph.D.

by ISTSS Blogs | Aug 8, 2019 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, International and Global, JOTS Highlights

TE is common and there is cross-national variation in prevalence. In the World Mental Health Survey (WMHS) (Kessler et al., 2017) with a combined sample of 68,894 adults across six continents,  findings showed that the highest TE prevalence estimates among high...