Editor’s Note: School children spend at least as much time at school with teachers and peers than home with their families during the school year. Students are not only expected to focus attention and learn new information, but to negotiate social relationships...
Pat Barker’s Regeneration, a trilogy of novels about the psychological effects of combat in WWI told from multiple perspectives, including those of soldiers, therapists and family, is as good an example of the value of art in our work as we could hope to find...
ISTSS Board Member, Josef I. Ruzek, PhD, has been asked to join the Disaster Mental Health Subcommittee under the National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB) Federal Advisory Committee as an ISTSS nominee. The 2007 ISTSS conference in Baltimore included an exhibit by...
On May 22, 2008, ISTSS co-sponsored its first congressional briefing entitled “Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Service Members, Veterans, and their Families: Innovative Strategies for Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery”. This event,...
At the moment I am writing this column, the world is watching trauma unfolding live. Paris, Europe, and the whole world is shocked by the brutal attacks on the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and on a Jewish supermarket. Seventeen people were...
