by ISTSS Blogs | May 27, 2021 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, SIG Spotlight, StressPoints
Modern concepts and treatments of psychological trauma are inextricably linked with the history of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud’s first major psychoanalytic text, Studies on Hysteria (1895) is the fountainhead of...
by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 1, 2021 | COVID-19, SIG Spotlight, StressPoints
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered people’s lives, exacerbated existing health inequalities and increased the risk for mental health problems, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (1). One important determinant of mental and physical...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 28, 2021 | Diversity and Multicultural Issues, SIG Spotlight, StressPoints
As the world enters the second calendar year of the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic, the United States (U.S.) faces another ongoing national issue – racism, marginalization and oppression of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC). While the...
by ISTSS Blogs | Nov 24, 2020 | SIG Spotlight, StressPoints
The 2020 annual meeting was the unofficial start of three new ISTSS Special Interest Groups—the Trauma in Higher Education and Training SIG, the Postpartum Trauma SIG, and the Trauma and Justice SIG. Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are self-selected networking...
by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 24, 2020 | Assessment and Psychometrics, SIG Spotlight, StressPoints
Widespread unmet needs arising from deaths due to the opioid, suicide, homicide, AIDS, COVID-19 and other epidemics are being met by an opportunity to make major strides in raising the standard of bereavement care worldwide. For the past three years, Drs. Robert...
