How to Predict and Mitigate Risk of Evacuation of US Service Members from Deployed Settings for Behavioral Health Reasons
Acute behavioral health crises are one of the leading causes of medical evacuation from combat operations for American service members (Williams, Stahlman, & Oh, 2017), and evacuees with psychiatric disorders are less likely to return to duty (Cohen, et al., 2010). We set out to determine variables that may help predict which service members are more likely to be medically evacuated from theater for behavioral health concerns.

Clinician's Corner: Telemental Health and PTSD
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Despite the substantial growth in evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), such as cognitive processing therapy (CPT; Resick, Monson, & Chard, 2017), and prolonged exposure (PE; Foa, Hembree, & Rothbaum, 2007) therapy, and the high demand for such services (Kilpatrick et al., 2013), critical barriers continue to prevent patients from accessing and engaging in these interventions (Maguen et al., 2019; Sripada et al., 2018).

Death Notification, Grief, and Posttraumatic Stress: Implications for COVID-19 Deaths
Human Remains, Grief, and Posttraumatic Stress in Bereaved Family Members Fourteen Years after September 11, 2001, a forthcoming manuscript in the Journal of Traumatic Stress describes the mental health effects on 9/11-bereaved family members after being notified (often multiple times) that remains of their loved ones were identified. The recent, novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak presents new and different challenges associated with death notification.

Death Notification: Challenges for Health Care Providers and Other Professionals
Although the phrase, death is a part of life, is commonly stated, discussions about death and informing those who are impacted by it remain uncomfortable topics for professionals. Recently, researchers at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress created an informational guide titled Notifying Family Members After Unexpected Deaths: Guidelines for Healthcare Providers that is readily available online:

How to Predict and Mitigate Risk of Evacuation of US Service Members from Deployed Settings for Behavioral Health Reasons
Acute behavioral health crises are one of the leading causes of medical evacuation from combat operations for American service members (Williams, Stahlman, & Oh, 2017), and evacuees with psychiatric disorders are less likely to return to duty (Cohen, et al., 2010). We set out to determine variables that may help predict which service members are more likely to be medically evacuated from theater for behavioral health concerns.

LGBT Service Members Report More Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment and Stalking than their Cisgender Heterosexual Peers
In the United States military, approximately 1 in 16 service members identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB), or transgender (Meadows et al., 2018). Military environments marked by sexual prejudice and discrimination can create an atmosphere where acts of sexual harassment and assault are normalized (Castro et al., 2015; Hunter, 2007; Sadler et al., 2003). Understanding the burden of sexual and stalking victimization among LGBT service members is crucial for military leaders, as well as clinicians and researchers working to promote and protect LGBT service members’ well-being.

Student Perspectives: How to Care for Someone Who Recently Experienced A Traumatic Event: The Five Core Principles for Early Posttraumatic Interventions, According to Hobfoll and Colleagues
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According global epidemiology surveys, 70% of individuals will experience a traumatic event at some point during their lifetime. Unfortunately, exposure to a traumatic event such as a physical assault or a natural disaster either directly or as a witness can lead to mental health disturbances; specifically, acute stress disorder (ASD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety and increased rates of suicide are frequently reported by trauma survivors.

Death Notification, Grief, and Posttraumatic Stress: Implications for COVID-19 Deaths
Human Remains, Grief, and Posttraumatic Stress in Bereaved Family Members Fourteen Years after September 11, 2001, a forthcoming manuscript in the Journal of Traumatic Stress describes the mental health effects on 9/11-bereaved family members after being notified (often multiple times) that remains of their loved ones were identified. The recent, novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak presents new and different challenges associated with death notification.

Student Perspectives: How to Care for Someone Who Recently Experienced A Traumatic Event: The Five Core Principles for Early Posttraumatic Interventions, According to Hobfoll and Colleagues
StressPoints
According global epidemiology surveys, 70% of individuals will experience a traumatic event at some point during their lifetime. Unfortunately, exposure to a traumatic event such as a physical assault or a natural disaster either directly or as a witness can lead to mental health disturbances; specifically, acute stress disorder (ASD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety and increased rates of suicide are frequently reported by trauma survivors.

LGBT Service Members Report More Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment and Stalking than their Cisgender Heterosexual Peers
In the United States military, approximately 1 in 16 service members identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB), or transgender (Meadows et al., 2018). Military environments marked by sexual prejudice and discrimination can create an atmosphere where acts of sexual harassment and assault are normalized (Castro et al., 2015; Hunter, 2007; Sadler et al., 2003). Understanding the burden of sexual and stalking victimization among LGBT service members is crucial for military leaders, as well as clinicians and researchers working to promote and protect LGBT service members’ well-being.

Death Notification, Grief, and Posttraumatic Stress: Implications for COVID-19 Deaths
Human Remains, Grief, and Posttraumatic Stress in Bereaved Family Members Fourteen Years after September 11, 2001, a forthcoming manuscript in the Journal of Traumatic Stress describes the mental health effects on 9/11-bereaved family members after being notified (often multiple times) that remains of their loved ones were identified. The recent, novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak presents new and different challenges associated with death notification.

ISTSS 2019: Reflections from A Global Travel Award Recipient Psychology and Boston: Sparking a New Flame
This past November, I had a unique opportunity of presenting my abstract at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) 35th Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. The conference theme was “Trauma, Recovery, and Resilience: Charting a Course Forward.” My abstract was titled “Validation of the Screen for Children Anxiety and Related Emotional Disorders-Revised Version (SCARED-R) for Use in Rwanda.”

Death Notification: Challenges for Health Care Providers and Other Professionals
Although the phrase, death is a part of life, is commonly stated, discussions about death and informing those who are impacted by it remain uncomfortable topics for professionals. Recently, researchers at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress created an informational guide titled Notifying Family Members After Unexpected Deaths: Guidelines for Healthcare Providers that is readily available online:

How to Predict and Mitigate Risk of Evacuation of US Service Members from Deployed Settings for Behavioral Health Reasons
Acute behavioral health crises are one of the leading causes of medical evacuation from combat operations for American service members (Williams, Stahlman, & Oh, 2017), and evacuees with psychiatric disorders are less likely to return to duty (Cohen, et al., 2010). We set out to determine variables that may help predict which service members are more likely to be medically evacuated from theater for behavioral health concerns.

ISTSS 2019: Reflections from A Global Travel Award Recipient Psychology and Boston: Sparking a New Flame
This past November, I had a unique opportunity of presenting my abstract at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) 35th Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. The conference theme was “Trauma, Recovery, and Resilience: Charting a Course Forward.” My abstract was titled “Validation of the Screen for Children Anxiety and Related Emotional Disorders-Revised Version (SCARED-R) for Use in Rwanda.”

Student Perspectives: How to Care for Someone Who Recently Experienced A Traumatic Event: The Five Core Principles for Early Posttraumatic Interventions, According to Hobfoll and Colleagues
StressPoints
According global epidemiology surveys, 70% of individuals will experience a traumatic event at some point during their lifetime. Unfortunately, exposure to a traumatic event such as a physical assault or a natural disaster either directly or as a witness can lead to mental health disturbances; specifically, acute stress disorder (ASD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety and increased rates of suicide are frequently reported by trauma survivors.

Oedipus Project: Free Zoom Broadcast May 7th, 2020
Dear Fellow ISTSS Members:

I’m writing now to alert you to the upcoming May 7^th free Zoom broadcast of the Oedipus Project directed by Bryan Doerries, the actor and classist whose Theater of War  (www.theaterofwar.com)  has been performed on military bases and at universities and theaters around the world with support from the U.S. Department of Defense among others. 

Trauma and World Literature: A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
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Whenever horrors of life are portrayed as being perpetrated within a particular culture, as they are in A Woman is No Man, by Etaf Rum, there must be concern that readers outside that culture will see this to be a fair representation of that group of people as a whole.

Trauma and World Literature: Andromache’s Lament in Homer’s Iliad
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Homer’s Iliad, the first surviving piece of European literature, is an epic narrative about the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. The soldier’s obligation to his family and community, the drive for revenge, and the unbearable costs during and after war are among the themes of this epic poem, a work that was both orally composed in verse and also transmitted orally over centuries before it was finally written down and preserved for future generations.