Breaking Ceilings Above Broken Ground
Like eyes adjusting to the light after a long dark night, this civic unrest has jump started a shock to my system, a restlessness in my mind, body, and spirit that I cannot shake. My […]
Articles by Wyatt Evans
Presidential Voice – Summer 2020
Carolyn Allard, Ph.D. To be sure, 2020 will go down in history (and it is barely halfway through). My hope is that what will earn its place in the history books will be the humanity […]
Editor’s Note – Summer 2020
Jonathan Cleveland, Ph.D. Greetings, Welcome to the summer issue of Trauma Psychology News. Clinicians specializing in trauma treatment find themselves in formidably turbulent times. With all that our readers are doing to help, the editorial […]
Division 56 Convention Program
Division 56 programming for the 2020 APA Virtual Convention Invited Panel Discussions: Transcending Divisiveness: Depolarizing Practices from Around the Globe A live action role modeling of how to have courageous conversations around having different perspectives, […]
Letter to the Editor
Preventing Professional Trauma Responses It is well known in trauma research that psychotherapists who work with trauma survivors are prone to their own troubling traumatic responses, such as vicarious traumatization, counter trauma, and secondary victimization. […]
Wildland Firefighters: Healing Outside the Box
Firefighting is one of the most physically and psychologically demanding professions. Wildland firefighters are a special breed. Whereas structure firefighters focus on fire suppression in communities and protecting property such as homes and vehicles, wildland […]
Mental Health Challenges of a Global Pandemic: The Case of COVID-19
Dr. Ani Kalayjian, Jasmin Guevarra, and Erin Antona Introduction Towards the end of 2019, the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) began in China and quickly spread to other countries within months. COVID-19 is an infectious virus […]
Hablar Es Sanar: Reflections on a Trauma Healing and Wellness Group for Latina Women
Immigrants are the fastest growing population in the United States (U.S.), with more than half of the 44 million foreign-born residents and 11 million undocumented immigrants being from Latin America (Passel & Cohn, 2019; Radford […]
Can Zoom Increase Group Therapeutic Outcomes? A Case Study Involving Therapeutic Improvisational Theater for Veterans with Addiction and PTSD
Patricia A O’Gorman, PhD, Samuel M. Hall, MA, MAC, CASAC, & Col. C. David Merkel, MD Zoom has exploded into the recent vacuum created by the need to socially distance in all walks of life, […]