Making the Most of Treatment: Veterans Want to Improve PTSD and Their Functioning During PTSD Treatment

by lgrasser@med.wayne.edu | Mar 28, 2025 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, Military and Combat, Trauma Blog Topics

Home 9 Category: Military and Combat Stephanie Y. Wells, Marcela C. Weber, Kathleen M. Grubbs, & Emily R. Wilhite   Trauma-focused psychotherapies improve posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and are widely available in the Veterans Affairs...

State of the Science for Telehealth-Delivered Psychotherapy for Trauma Sequelae

by kdhowell@umass.edu | Nov 19, 2024 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, Trauma Blog Topics

Home 9 Category: Clinical Issues and Treatment State of the Science for Telehealth-Delivered Psychotherapy for Trauma Sequelae Madeline J. Bruce, Antonio F. Pagán, & Ron Acierno   We hope our state-of-the-science review can ease the unfortunate, yet...

How National Medical Registries Can Broaden Our View of Trauma-Related Psychopathology Beyond Posttraumatic Stress Disorder – Smith, Szentkúti, & Gradus

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...

Can subclinical trauma rewire the brain? – McIntosh & Dahan

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...

Trauma Begets Retraumatization through Physical Restraint in Youth Residents – Brown, Edelman, Phillips, Stankus, Amoscato, & Schwartz

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...

The Shifting Landscape of U.S. Latino Immigrants and Mental Health Disparities – Vicky Vazquez, Maria Sanchez, PhD, and Patria Rojas, PhD

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...