SIG Spotlight: Psychodynamic Research and Practice Special Interest Group – Harold Kudler, MD, SIG Co-Chair

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...

SIG Spotlight: COVID-19, Mental Health and Physical Activity – Grace McKeon, Christopher T. Webster, Simon Rosenbaum and James W. Whitworth

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...

SIG Spotlight: Moral injury and Systemic Betrayal in the United States ‎ – Amanda J. Khan and Wyatt R. Evans

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...

SIG Spotlight: Three New Special Interest Groups Launched at the 36th Annual ISTSS Meeting: Bridging Gaps in Traumatic Stress Studies Through Networking – Maureen A. Allwood, PhD; Suzanne Best, PhD; Sharon Dekel, PhD; Stephen DiDonato, PhD;, Bianca Harper, DSW; and Anke Witteveen, PhD

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...

SIG Spotlight: The Traumatic Loss and Grief SIG – Christopher M. Layne, PhD, and Julie B. Kaplow, PhD, ABPP

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...