APA 2018 Travel Awardees
Award for Media Contributions to the Field of Trauma Psychology
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Articles by Wyatt Evans
Impact of Killing (IOK): Expanding our Framework to Help Veterans Heal from War
Impact of Killing (IOK): Expanding our Framework to Help Veterans Heal from War Kristine Burkman, PhD & Shira Maguen, PhD Currently, there are only two evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) for PTSD endorsed by the Veterans Health […]
Death, afterlife, and doomsday scenario: Why do we evade the extreme dangers of climate change?
Death, afterlife, and doomsday scenario: Why do we evade the extreme dangers of climate change? (A review of Samuel Scheffler’s Death and the Afterlife) Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D. In a blog post of a year […]
Understanding Posttraumatic Growth in Haiti
Ainelle Mercado, Marie Valsaint, Skultip (Jill) Sirikantraporn, Grant J. Rich, & Wismick Jean-Charles Despite being the first nation in the world created as a result of a successful slave revolt and also the first independent nation […]
An Overview of Transgender Sexual Victimization
While the term “gender” is often equated with the construct of biological sex, it actually refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributions that are the traditional norm for one’s assigned biological sex. […]
Zeynep Sagir: Recipient of the Division 56 Travel Assistance Stipend for the 2018 APA Convention
By: Elizabeth Carll, PhD & Vincenzo Teran, PsyD To encourage international participation, the APA Trauma Psychology Division provides an annual travel stipend to attend the APA Convention for international students who are citizens of developing countries […]
Say What? What Linguistic Analysis of Trauma Narratives Can Contribute to the Assessment and Prediction of Trauma Symptoms
By: Daisa Marshall, Stephanie Gusler, and Lee R. Eshelman Despite decades of research, there remains no gold standard of measurement and assessment of trauma experiences and related symptomatology. The lack of standardization in measurement comes, […]
Military PTSD and Post-service Violence: A Review of the Evidence
By: Joshua Camins One of the most commonly discussed sequalae of stressful deployment experiences is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Estimates of military service-connected PTSD range from 8.1% to 23% with the rates varying by conflict […]
Who’s Who: Wyatt Evans, PhD
1) What is your current occupation? I am a postdoctoral fellow with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Currently, I’m serving as a research therapist for STRONG STAR and the Consortium […]
Trauma Assessment Video Training with High-Risk Trauma Diverse Clients
Research has demonstrated that individuals who are female and/or from diverse backgrounds are subject to higher rates of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) than their majority counterparts. The rates of PTSD in the general population are […]