Student Perspectives: All Aboard the Intern-ship – Tara Frem, MA

by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 1, 2017 | StressPoints, Student and Early Career

My first article for ISTSS was about the difficulty of obtaining training experiences specialized in trauma without previous experience. I listed recommendations from students and professionals in the field: (i) seek out volunteer opportunities; (ii) ask advice from...

Student Perspectives: Healing the Wounds of Torture – Natasa Brozovic, MA

by ISTSS Blogs | Jul 31, 2017 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, StressPoints, Student and Early Career

With increasing global unrest, we are faced with troubling images of human suffering and despair on numerous media and news outlets. Images from war-torn countries, especially refugees in search of safety and survival, conjure familiar feelings of despair in refugee...

Developmental Traumatology Incapacitated Sexual Assault (ISA) on College Campuses: Emerging Spaces for Clinical Intervention – Divya Kannan, PhD and Meredith Kalies, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Jul 31, 2017 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, StressPoints, Student and Early Career

Incapacitated Sexual Assault on College Campuses With several universities in the United States currently undergoing Title IX investigations (Fedina, Holmes, & Backes, 2016; Sutton, 2016), campus responses to preventing campus sexual violence and investigating...

Student Perspectives Challenges and Opportunities in Knowledge Transfer: A Conversation Between a Graduate Student and a Trauma Therapist – By Josianne Lamothe, MSW, Ph.D. candidate, and Jody Sell, MSW, RSW

by ISTSS Blogs | May 31, 2017 | StressPoints, Student and Early Career

In the last 30 years there has been a dramatic shift toward the development and adoption of evidence-based practices in clinical settings. This shift was greatly facilitated by the growing collaboration between researchers and clinicians who share a common...

Student Perspectives: Bound – Mavis Ring, MS, MA

by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 24, 2016 | StressPoints, Student and Early Career

We all know boundaries are important. Given that relational patterns of patients in trauma work are more frequently those of intrusion and rejection, assessing the patterns are doubly important. In forensic psychology, these patterns are also doubly complicated. I...

Existential Anxiety and Traumatic Stress in Adolescents – Carl Weems, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 2, 2016 | JOTS Highlights, Student and Early Career

Concerns about the nature of existence and one’s place in the world are viewed as central to the human condition in a number of intellectual traditions. Contemplating existential issues is a normative part of human experience; however, for some individuals these...