Joanna Legerski and Lynnnette Averill stepped into their new roles as chair and vice chair of the ISTSS Student Section in November 2007. Wasting no time, they have already made great strides towards their three primarily goals: to increase opportunity, growth, and...
Background on Moral Injury Moral injury is the emotional pain and functional impairment people can experience after participating in, failing to prevent, or witnessing highly stressful events that transgress their beliefs about right and wrong. In recent years, there...
Background IPV as a global health priority Intimate partner violence (IPV), defined as physical, sexual, and/or psychological violence by a current or former partner affects over 1 in 3 women worldwide (Breiding et al., 2015). IPV is associated with multiple negative...
Military service, and combat deployment in particular, has been found to be strongly associated with an increased risk of developing PTSD (Armenta et al., 2018; Hoge et al., 2006; Porter et al., 2018). The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) provides disability...
