Using international statistics, up to 17% of boys and up to 33.8% of girls of girls are victims of child sexual abuse (CSA), making CSA a global concern (Barth, Bermetz, Heim, Trelle, & Tonia, 2013; […]
A Call to Responsible Action The Federal Republic of Nigeria, commonly referred to as Nigeria, is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, […]
Review By: Omewha Beaton, PhD Vasterling, J. J., Bryant, R. A., & Keane, T. M. (Eds.). (2012). PTSD and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. New York, NY: Guilford Press (308 pages) ISBN-13: 978-1462503384 ISBN-10: 1462503381 ($60 […]
Introduction Sexual assault can be a life-changing traumatic event that can lead to posttraumatic stress or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Smith & Pick, 2015). In one undergraduate sample, 22% of students reported experiencing sexual assault […]
Dr. Daria Diakonova-Curtis, Dr. Ani Kalayjian, Dr. Leslie Popoff The 63rdsession of the United Nations (UN) Commission of the Status of Women gathered thousands of community leaders, non-profit organization participants and activists to New York […]
Hugo Schielke, PhD, Amie Myrick, MS, LCPC, & Bethany Brand, PhD hugo.schielke@gmail.com Persons who meet criteria for dissociative disorders (DDs) often experience high levels of chronic impairment across multiple domains of functioning, including complex psychiatric […]
Review By: Bianca Harper, DSW, LCSW University of Southern California Kahn, L. (2017). Baffled by love: Stories of the lasting impact of childhood trauma inflicted by loved ones. Berkeley, CA: She Writes Press. Working with […]
Sylvia Marotta-Walters, Ph.D. The news every day seems to provide a panoply of potentially traumatic experiences (PTE) affecting our families, our political systems, and our global society. At the time of this writing, families are […]
Greetings, Welcome to an expanded spring issue of Trauma Psychology News. The earlier portion of the current issue is devoted to a special section on the topic of dissociation. We are fortunate to have Dr. […]
Tyson D. Bailey, PsyD, ABPP During my internship year, I sat in group supervision listening to the story of a person who had experienced horrific abuse coming to understand the effects of these repeated experiences […]
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