ISTSS, in collaboration with the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS) and EMDR-Europe, is presenting four days of meetings in London, June 13-16, 2008. ISTSS will hold “Interventions for Traumatised Populations: An Expert Update from...
The Fourth Annual Conference on Innovations in Trauma Research Methods (CITRM) was held at the beautiful Tremont Grand Plaza located in Baltimore, Maryland on November 13-14. The two-day conference, which grew out of the International Society for Traumatic Stress...
For many people with complex mental disorders related to chronic traumatization in early childhood, effective treatment is hard to find. Funding is insufficient and qualified therapists are lacking; the resources available for research, training and innovation are...
Note: A version of this article originally appeared in the December 2007 edition of Therapy Today, the journal of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. This edited version is published with permission of the Editor of Therapy Today. As therapist...
In The Things They Carried, Vietnam veteran and writer Tim O’Brien offers insights into trauma, its lingering effects and its interplay with the creative process. Writing prose with the flow and power of pure poetry, O’Brien demonstrates that it is...
Following several years of intensive consultation and review, the Interagency Standing Committee (IASC) Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial support in Emergency Settings were launched at the United Nations in November 2007. The launch was interesting and...
Over three hundred students traveled from across the globe to attend the 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies in Baltimore, Maryland. Their reasons for making the trek were as varied as their home locals. For example, Ms. Senem...
This month I would like to tell you more about an exciting new venture for ISTSS. On June 16, at the Royal College of Physicians, Central London, we will hold a one-day symposium with expert updates covering a wide range of areas of timely importance,...
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...
Ami Neiberger-Miller, APR, owns Steppingstone LLC , a design and public relations firm and is a public affairs officer for TAPS, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (www.taps.org), a nonprofit organization that provides a support network for the surviving...
