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...

The Intersection of Treating PTSD and Suicide: A Systematic Review of the Literature – David Rozek, PhD, ABPP, Shelby Baker, Kelsi Rugo, Victoria Steigerwald, Lauren Sippel, PhD, Ryan Holliday, PhD, Erika Roberge, PhD, Phillip Held, PhD, Natalie Mota, PhD, & Noelle Smith, PhD

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,...

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...