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?
Trauma and World Literature: There is a pain – so utter – by Emily Dickinson – Howard Lipke, PhD
In his highly regarded comprehensive biography of the great New England poet Emily Dickinson, Alfred Habeggger observes that no other American writer of her time explored with equal sensitivity and mastery psychological fragmentation and of the way the mind protects itself.
Using the 2023 VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for Management of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Acute Stress Disorder – Ariel J. Lang, Jessica L. Hamblen, Paul Holtzheimer, Ursula Kelly, Sonya B. Norman, David Riggs, Paula P. Schnurr, & Ilse Wiechers
Grief vs. Depression: Are they related to the bereaved or the deceased? – Arda Bağcaz and Cengiz Kılıç
We do not know why, after the loss of a loved one, some people develop depression, while some others may experience a prolonged grief disorder. This blog discusses our recent research on the differential correlates of depression and prolonged grief symptoms in a population-based sample. We found that depressive symptoms are primarily associated with the characteristics of the bereaved, whereas prolonged grief symptoms are primarily associated with the characteristics of the deceased.