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?
From the President – Marit Sijbrandij, PhD, ISTSS President
As Immediate Past-President of ISTSS, this will be my final Presidential column in StressPoints. After this column, Dr. Angela Nickerson, the Current President of ISTSS, will take over. With Angela Nickerson, I am confident that our society will be in more than excellent hands. Having already passed the gavel to Angela, I take the opportunity to look back on the past year.
ISTSS’s Paper in a Day 2023: Gender differences in DSM-5 PTSD symptom clusters: A network analysis – Anke B. Witteveen & Mirjam van Zuiden
On November 1, 2023, another successful Paper in a Day (PiaD) was held at the ISTSS annual meeting in Los Angeles. The PiaD grew out of a wish to foster collaborations between young researchers from around the world. It is designed to stimulate international connections and the exchange of ideas by working on a tangible outcome: a paper, short communication or commentary for a peer-reviewed journal. The PiaD project aligns with FAIR data principles. The focus of this year’s PiaD was on potential gender differences in early post-trauma PTSD symptoms and symptom cluster networks.
Training Ukrainian mental health professionals in evidence-based treatments for traumatic stress – Tetiana Nickelsen, PhD & Israel Liberzon, MD
In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. As a result, millions of people have been exposed to war and war-related trauma, and the world is witnessing an immense mental health crisis. Ukrainian mental health systems cannot address this crisis effectively alone, and the main reason is that mental health professionals in the country generally are not trained in evidence-based care for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and trauma-related sequelae. A National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty-funded project (1D43TW012463) recently started by Drs. Liberzon and Nickelsen aims to change that.