Editor’s Note – Fall 2019
Greetings and welcome to the fall issue of TPN, Over the past few months, we received many excellent submissions. So many, in fact, that some will need to be included in the spring issue. In […]
Articles by Wyatt Evans
Presidential Voice – Fall 2019
Sylvia Marotta-Walters, Ph.D. The 2019 APA Convention was a huge success for Division 56, a success that was shared with non-participants through the efforts of our program chair Delishia Pittman and our social media chair […]
Genocide, Trauma, & Forgiveness
Annual meeting at the APA 127th Convention in Chicago Conversation hour at Trauma Psychology Saturday August 10, 2019 Margarita Avedisian, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist Armenian Behavioral Scientists and guests gathered at the American Psychological Association’s […]
PTSD and Suicide: How Emergency Department Clinicians Can Intervene
Suicide is one of only three leading causes of death in the United States that continues to increase (Stone et al., 2018). In 2016, World Health Organization statistics estimated that nearly 45,000 suicides (123 suicides […]
Cordially Invited: Refugee Family Discourse
What do you see? Is it New Tara, the plantation of the twenty first century? Crops of dreams and disasters lay juxtaposed as biproducts of influential forecasters. It makes you wonder what Hitler and Prophet […]
Who’s Who: Viann Nguyen-Feng, PhD
1) What is your current occupation? Currently (as of this past August…), I serve as core faculty in the Department of Psychology’s counseling/clinical master’s program at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. I head the Mind-Body […]
Comorbid Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
In the interest of transparency, I would first like to disclose my background and interest in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) comorbidity. As a master’s-level intern in the clinical assessment team at […]
Book Review – Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: A Comprehensive Manual
Review By: Merdijana Kovacevic, M.A., and Elana Cewman, Ph.D. Resick, P. A., Monson, C. M., & Chard, K. M. (2016). Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: A comprehensive manual. New York, NY: Guilford Press. ISBN 9781462533725 […]
International Committee Report
During the past decade the number of forced migrants including refugees and asylum seekers has reached crisis proportions with the highest historic levels of migration. Children separated from their families have made headlines around the […]
Listening Inside to the Pain of Life: A Session Excerpt
Psyche Singing M.E: “Wondering what you hear when you listen inside.” A.G: “When I listen inside? When I listen – I hear screaming.” M.E: “Does it ever stop?” A.G: “Right now I’m thinking I don’t listen […]