Reflecting on the State of the Science of Prolonged Exposure Therapy

by aisaeva@parthenonmgmt.com | Jun 10, 2024 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, Trauma Blog Topics

Reflecting on the State of the Science of Prolonged Exposure Therapy Carmen P. McLean & Edna B. Foa May 13, 2024   Introduction Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) is a trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy that was developed in the 1980s by Edna Foa and...

Transforming Access to Evidence-Based Trauma Interventions in Low and Middle Income Contexts

by aisaeva@parthenonmgmt.com | Jun 10, 2024 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, International and Global, Trauma Blog Topics

Transforming Access to Evidence-Based Trauma Interventions in Low and Middle Income Contexts Srishti Sardana, Anushka R. Patel, Debra Kaminer, Duane D. Booysen, Kate Ellis, Christian H. Kristensen, & Katy Robjant May 20, 2024   Overview Low and middle-income...

A score of 27 or greater on the Moral Injury and Distress Scale (MIDS) identifies clinically meaningful and impairing moral injury – Sonya B. Norman, Shira Maguen, Brandon J. Griffin

by ISTSS Blogs | Mar 28, 2024 | Assessment and Psychometrics, Trauma Blog Topics

Background on Moral Injury Moral injury is the emotional pain and functional impairment people can experience after participating in, failing to prevent, or witnessing highly stressful events that transgress their beliefs about right and wrong. In recent years, there...

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...