Presidential Voice – Summer 2018
Hi Everyone. As President of Division 56, Trauma Psychology, I’m excited to invite you to attend the 2018 APA Convention in San Francisco this year. As you might know my presidential initiative for this year was […]
2018
Who’s Who: Jack Tsai, PhD
1) What is your current occupation? I’m a licensed clinical psychologist for the Veterans Health Administration and associate professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine where I also direct the Division of Mental […]
Review of Adaptive Disclosure: A New Treatment for Military Trauma, Loss, and Moral Injury
Litz, B.T., Libowitz, M.J., & Nash, W.P. (2016). Adaptive disclosure: A new treatment for military trauma, loss, and moral injury. New York: The Guilford Press. Adaptive Disclosure is written with heart and clarity to provide […]
Trauma before Incarceration: Examining the Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Incarceration and Mental Health According to the World Prison Population List, the United States has the highest prison population with 716 incarcerated per 100,000 (Walmsley, 2013), and these high rates of incarceration occur regardless […]
Use of Logic-Based Therapy to Encode Emotional Reasoning on the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex
Introduction The Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex (vmPFC) of the brain has been linked to value-based decision-making and regulation of negative emotions. Further, one study of the vmPFC utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has helped to […]
Editor’s Note – Spring 2018
It’s hard to believe that three years ago I was appointed as the editor of Trauma Psychology News. Over that period of time, I’ve met and worked with many brilliant people in the trauma psychology […]
Presidential Voice – Spring 2018
Greetings fellow Division 56 members. For the four short months of being President of the Division, I have been allowed to gain a perspective of Division and APA functioning and politics, which is quite a […]
Call for Fellows Applications
We invite and encourage individuals who have “shown evidence of unusual and outstanding contributions or performance in the field of (trauma) psychology” with national or international impact (APA’s hallmark criteria) to apply for Fellowship status […]
It’s Not All Black or White: Response to Shedler’s Psychology Today Blog “Selling Bad Therapy to Trauma Victims”
By: Christine A. Courtois, PhD, ABPP I write this blog response as a clinician with over 40 years of experience (just retired from practice) and an author/trainer who has devoted my career to the development […]
Who’s Who: Robyn Gobin
1) What is your current occupation? I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. I maintain a […]