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...
by ISTSS Blogs | Mar 7, 2022 | Trauma Blog Topics
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is prevalent amongst civilians in our society. The factors most commonly associated with developing PTSD are female gender and recent exposure to sexual abuse (Knipscheer et al., 2020).Globally, it is estimated...
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...
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...
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,...
by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 30, 2021 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, Military and Combat, Trauma Blog Topics, Uncategorized
There are high rates of trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among treatment-seeking veterans with substance use disorders (SUD). The process of re-integrating into the civilian world while coping with psychological and physical conditions may...