It is fitting that the very first goal in the ISTSS Strategic Plan is about nurturing and sustaining professional community and interchange. Goal #1: Professional Community - ISTSS inspires innovation in the various activities of traumatic stress professionals. We...
Technology is increasingly used as a means to address significant barriers in the delivery of trauma-focused mental health treatment. These barriers include limited access to a subset of providers who treat traumatic stress, transportation to treatment, access to...
(left to right) E. Alison Holman, Roxane Cohen Silver, Stevan Hobfoll, ISTSS then-president Nancy Kassam-Adams, Erika Wolf, Bruce Shapiro, Charlotte Heleniak, Diana Bennett, Mary Beth Williams In November, ISTSS honored the recipients of its 2014 Leadership Awards at...
(Click here for conference photos) Thank you to everyone who participated in the ISTSS 30th Annual Meeting in Miami. More than 1,200 attendees from around the world contributed knowledge and new insights into the short- and long-term effects childhood trauma can have...
When I think about some of the key therapeutic components that promote recovery for trauma survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), I think about dealing with the memories of the trauma, addressing avoidance of trauma-related reminders that impair their...
