Bringing Together Clinicians and Researchers From Around the World to Advocate for the Field of Traumatic Stress.
Healing Trauma Together
The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies is dedicated to sharing information about the effects of trauma and the discovery and dissemination of knowledge about policy, program and service initiatives that seek to reduce traumatic stressors and their immediate and long-term consequences. ISTSS is an international interdisciplinary professional organization that promotes advancement and exchange of knowledge about traumatic stress.
Registration is Now Open!
Join us in Boston on September 25-28, 2024 for the ISTSS 40th Annual Meeting. The ISTSS Annual Meeting provides a forum for the dissemination of theoretical work, scientific research, and evidence-based clinical approaches in traumatic stress studies.
Conversations and Consultations
Our Conversations and Consultation series is a members-only series that provides members with the opportunity to exchange valuable insight and advice with subject-matter experts, mentors, and/or colleagues in the trauma field. Each session is facilitated by one or more experts and presented to ISTSS members as a free membership benefit. Check out past sessions on industry careers, part-time private practice, and our most recent session on international collaboration.
Grow Your Professional Network by Volunteering with ISTSS
Volunteers play an integral role in ISTSS' day-to-day activities and form a broad professional network. Interested in adding an ISTSS volunteer position to your CV?
Student perspectives: Reflective practice in time of conflict – Paige Klein, BA & Emmeline N. Taylor, MA
These past few weeks have been incredibly difficult for so many in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack. Since October 7th, thousands of Israeli and Palestinian civilians have been devastated by the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas (Zanotti et al., 2023). This devastation also extends to Israeli, Palestinian, Jewish and Muslim identifying individuals living in the US and abroad who are also experiencing insurmountable losses.
Trauma and world literature: The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley – Howard Lipke, PhD
During of a conversation with a children’s librarian I asked about her favorite books. Her top choice was, The War That Saved My Life, which turned out to be (with or without its sequel), not only a beautifully told story, but a work that could be a supplemental text for a course on psychological trauma.
Exposure to potentially traumatic experiences and mental health care use in adolescents – Annika Skandsen, Tormod Bøe, Mari Hysing, Martin H. Teicher, Kristin Gärtner Askeland, and Liv Sand
In a recent Journal of Traumatic Stress article, Skandsen et al., leveraged data from a national registry to explore relations between exposure to potentially traumatic events and psychiatric disorders. The authors findings point towards the role of exposure to multiple potentially traumatic experiences as a transdiagnostic risk factor for psychopathology that clinicians should consider in their evaluation and treatment.