Military Matters: Suicide Prevention in the U.S. Army: Targeting Risk and Resilience – Eren Youmans Watkins, PhD, MPH, Kelly Forys Donahue, PhD, Joseph Pecko, PhD, LCSW, and Kenneth Cox, MD, MPH

by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 1, 2017 | Military and Combat, StressPoints

From a public health perspective, U.S. Army suicides are rare events and the prevalence of suicide in the U.S. Army is low (less than 0.02 percent). However, the impact of even one death, especially a suicide, has a resounding effect on America’s fighting force....

Clinician’s Corner: Shared Decision Making for PTSD – Juliette Harik, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 1, 2017 | Military and Combat, StressPoints

Last month, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued an updated Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of PTSD. I was enthusiastic to see that the very first recommendation in this guideline encourages health...

Sense of Threat as a Mediator of Peritraumatic Stress Symptom Development During Wartime: An Experience Sampling Study – Liron Lapid Pickman, MA, Talya Greene, Ph.D, MPH & Marc Gelkopf, Ph.D.

by ISTSS Blogs | May 31, 2017 | JOTS Highlights, Military and Combat

What do we know about exposure to trauma, sense of threat and stress symptoms? There is much evidence in the scientific literature to a direct link between the sense of threat a person feels during and immediately after experiencing a traumatic event, and their...

Treating Veterans with PTSD and Borderline Personality Symptoms – Laura Meyers, PhD, ABPP

by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 12, 2017 | JOTS Highlights, Military and Combat

The DBTPE Journeys program is a novel 12-week intensive outpatient program that combines Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), and community integration outings to treat co-morbid PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder.  This program was...

Military Matters: Grief Responses in U.S. Military Families Following Soldier Loss – Holly B. Herberman Mash, PhD, Joscelyn E. Fisher, PhD, and Alexander G. Liu, MPH

by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 24, 2016 | Military and Combat, StressPoints

Grief has increasingly become a focus of attention within the military, with 80 percent of redeployed soldiers reporting knowing someone who was seriously injured or killed in theater (Thomas et al., 2010; Toblin et al., 2012). Among 15,938 military service members...

All in the Family: Examining secondary traumatization in the families of Vietnam Veterans – Nicole Gerszberg

by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 2, 2016 | Assessment and Psychometrics, International and Global, JOTS Highlights, Military and Combat

The traumatic effects of war experience on Vietnam veterans have been repeatedly studied and widely discussed over the past few decades. However, research on secondary traumatization, the transmission of distress from trauma victims to others in close proximity, has...