The ISTSS Awards Committee, chaired by John Fairbank, PhD, would like to announce the 2007 ISTSS Award Recipients. The awards will be presented at the Awards Ceremony at the Annual Meeting in Baltimore. Please attend to help honor the following distinguished ISTSS...
Since this is my last column as ISTSS president, I am pleased to take the opportunity to review some of the year’s activities and accomplishments; and to share observations and express gratitude to many of you. Annual Meeting As I write this column, the final...
In her first novel, “Year of Wonders,” Geraldine Brooks imagines life in an English village in 1665, during the time of the bubonic plague. The author has been a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, covering the tragedies of Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle...
Review of: “The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization” Onno van der Hart, PhD, Ellert R.S. Nijenhuis, PhD, Kathy Steele, MN, CS W.W.Norton & Company, New York, 2006. Reviewed by: Warwick Middleton, MB, BS,...
Would you like to have access to evidence-based assessment and treatment resources free of charge? If so, the new Resources for Clinicians feature on the ISTSS Web site is for you. Empirically-validated assessment tools and treatment models are the most effective way...
Each year at its Annual Meeting, ISTSS presents awards in recognition of achievements made in the field of traumatic stress studies. The 2007 awards ceremony was held Thursday evening, November 15, in the Grand Ballroom of the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel....
Breaking the attendance mark set one year ago in Hollywood, the ISTSS 23rd Annual Meeting drew 1,311 people from all walks of the trauma field to Baltimore, November 15-17. Attendees descended on the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel to learn cutting-edge research,...
I would like to start my term as president of ISTSS by acknowledging the substantial achievements of the last year. ISTSS is in reasonable financial health again. The 2007 conference attracted a record number of attendees. We have formed harmonious international...
Editor Anne P. DePrince, PhD Contributing Editors Kathryn Becker-Blease, PhD David Read Johnson, PhD Kathryn Becker-Blease, PhD Diane Elmore, PhD, MPH Harold Kudler, PhD Heidi LaBash Dean Lauterbach, PhD Howard Lipke, PhD Patrick A. Palmieri, PhD Meg Spratt, PhD...
Congratulations to Scott P. Orr, PhD, this year's recipient of the ISTSS Robert S. Laufer, PhD Memorial Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement. Dr. Orr was honored during the ISTSS Awards Ceremony at the 23 Annual Meeting in Baltimore last November. The...
