How National Medical Registries Can Broaden Our View of Trauma-Related Psychopathology Beyond Posttraumatic Stress Disorder – Smith, Szentkúti, & Gradus

by ISTSS Blogs | Mar 16, 2022 | JOTS Highlights, Trauma Blog Topics

Some people who experience traumatic events face subsequent mental health challenges. The most well-studied of these is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Kessler et al., 2017), but over the last decade, there has been growing awareness that trauma-related...

Trauma Begets Retraumatization through Physical Restraint in Youth Residents – Brown, Edelman, Phillips, Stankus, Amoscato, & Schwartz

by ISTSS Blogs | Mar 1, 2022 | JOTS Highlights, Trauma Blog Topics

When children and adolescents experience serious psychiatric, emotional, or behavioral problems not appropriate for outpatient treatment, they may be referred to a psychiatric residential treatment facility (PRTF). Once admitted, youth stay exclusively in these highly...

The Shifting Landscape of U.S. Latino Immigrants and Mental Health Disparities – Vicky Vazquez, Maria Sanchez, PhD, and Patria Rojas, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Feb 1, 2022 | JOTS Highlights, Trauma Blog Topics

In the recent decade, changes in immigration patterns to the U.S. have included increases of immigrants from South and Central America, with a surge of Latino immigrants arriving from Venezuela and Guatemala (Noe-Bustamante, 2019). Despite the...

The Intersection of Treating PTSD and Suicide: A Systematic Review of the Literature – David Rozek, PhD, ABPP, Shelby Baker, Kelsi Rugo, Victoria Steigerwald, Lauren Sippel, PhD, Ryan Holliday, PhD, Erika Roberge, PhD, Phillip Held, PhD, Natalie Mota, PhD, & Noelle Smith, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Feb 1, 2022 | JOTS Highlights, Trauma Blog Topics

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicidal thoughts and behaviors often occur together (e.g., Holliday et al., 2020; May & Klonsky, 2016; Roberge et al., 2020). There are numerous evidence-based treatments (EBTs) for treating PTSD and preventing suicide,...

Why Me? Why Now? Abstract Thinking Predicts the Development of PTSD Symptoms in Student Paramedics – Aimee McKinnon, PhD, DClinPsy, Hjördis Lorenz, PhD, Paul Salkovskis, PhD, & Jennifer Wild, DClinPsy

by ISTSS Blogs | Dec 15, 2021 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

What is abstract thinking and why is it important? Imagine that you are a student paramedic. You arrive at the scene of an accident, recognise symptoms that you learnt about recently, but you cannot remember what you need to do next. What might go through your head?...

Lifelong trauma sequelae: Complex PTSD in a new lifespan model – Andreas Maercker, MD, PhD, Myriam Thoma, PD, PhD, Shauna Rohner, PhD, & Florence Bernays, MSc

by ISTSS Blogs | Dec 6, 2021 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights

Clinicians around the world have found that prolonged traumatic experiences, particularly in childhood and adolescence, can result in a complex presentation of trauma sequelae. These have been newly defined by WHO as complex PTSD diagnosis in ICD-11. In addition to...