Home > Public Resources > Trauma Blog > 2017 - May Assessment and Psychometrics Factors Related to Acute Traumatic Stress Responses in Parents of Children with a Serious Illness or Injury Similar to other traumatic events, a life threatening injury or illness in children can elicit significant acute stress reactions in their parents that can develop into longer-term mental health problems. Few studies have investigated parents’ acute stress reactions within the first four weeks of their child’s diagnosis and hospitalization, and the factors linked with higher levels of parent psychological symptoms. Browse Assessment and Psychometrics articles Clinical Issues and Treatment Clinician's Corner: E-Health for Trauma: Optimism without the Blindness StressPoints Technological approaches to trauma treatment have exploded in the past decade and offer promise for providing low cost and clinically-effective support for trauma survivors. Web-based interventions as well as phone apps have received some empirical support. Browse Clinical Issues and Treatment articles International and Global Human Rights and Policy From the Front-Lines: Supporting Humanitarian Workers Subjected to Increasing Risk of Primary and Secondary Trauma StressPoints While research on the impacts of humanitarian work on the individual workers is clearly important, there is also a need to understand how the external sequelae of violence, threat, and destabilization affects teams and organizations. Browse International and Global articles Military and Combat Sense of Threat as a Mediator of Peritraumatic Stress Symptom Development During Wartime: An Experience Sampling Study There is much evidence in the scientific literature to a direct link between the sense of threat a person feels during and immediately after experiencing a traumatic event, and their subsequent level of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Yet, we still do not fully understand the interrelationships between exposure, sense of threat, and symptoms, particularly when the traumatic situation is ongoing, i.e., during the peritraumatic period. Browse Military and Combat articles Student and Early Career Student Perspectives Challenges and Opportunities in Knowledge Transfer: A Conversation Between a Graduate Student and a Trauma Therapist StressPoints This reciprocal exchange of information between research and practice with the aim of achieving improved client outcome is a process referred to as Knowledge Transfer (KT). Browse Student and Early Career articles Trauma and the Arts Trauma and World Literature: Toni Morrison’s Jazz StressPoints In this contribution to the column we return to the work of Toni Morrison. Her novel Jazz tells the stories of African-Americans living in New York City in the period between the two world wars, and the travels and travails that brought them to the city. Browse Trauma and the Arts articles
Home > Public Resources > Trauma Blog > 2017 - May Assessment and Psychometrics Factors Related to Acute Traumatic Stress Responses in Parents of Children with a Serious Illness or Injury Similar to other traumatic events, a life threatening injury or illness in children can elicit significant acute stress reactions in their parents that can develop into longer-term mental health problems. Few studies have investigated parents’ acute stress reactions within the first four weeks of their child’s diagnosis and hospitalization, and the factors linked with higher levels of parent psychological symptoms. Browse Assessment and Psychometrics articles Clinical Issues and Treatment Clinician's Corner: E-Health for Trauma: Optimism without the Blindness StressPoints Technological approaches to trauma treatment have exploded in the past decade and offer promise for providing low cost and clinically-effective support for trauma survivors. Web-based interventions as well as phone apps have received some empirical support. Browse Clinical Issues and Treatment articles International and Global Human Rights and Policy From the Front-Lines: Supporting Humanitarian Workers Subjected to Increasing Risk of Primary and Secondary Trauma StressPoints While research on the impacts of humanitarian work on the individual workers is clearly important, there is also a need to understand how the external sequelae of violence, threat, and destabilization affects teams and organizations. Browse International and Global articles Military and Combat Sense of Threat as a Mediator of Peritraumatic Stress Symptom Development During Wartime: An Experience Sampling Study There is much evidence in the scientific literature to a direct link between the sense of threat a person feels during and immediately after experiencing a traumatic event, and their subsequent level of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Yet, we still do not fully understand the interrelationships between exposure, sense of threat, and symptoms, particularly when the traumatic situation is ongoing, i.e., during the peritraumatic period. Browse Military and Combat articles Student and Early Career Student Perspectives Challenges and Opportunities in Knowledge Transfer: A Conversation Between a Graduate Student and a Trauma Therapist StressPoints This reciprocal exchange of information between research and practice with the aim of achieving improved client outcome is a process referred to as Knowledge Transfer (KT). Browse Student and Early Career articles Trauma and the Arts Trauma and World Literature: Toni Morrison’s Jazz StressPoints In this contribution to the column we return to the work of Toni Morrison. Her novel Jazz tells the stories of African-Americans living in New York City in the period between the two world wars, and the travels and travails that brought them to the city. Browse Trauma and the Arts articles