Division 56 Fellows Committee
Priscilla Dass-Brailsford Hi All – It is an honor to Chair this important Fellows committee that has been Chaired by Laurie Pearlman for many years. Laurie, thanks for your service and helping so many of us […]
Student, Fellow, ECP, & Member News
Mental Health on the Line: The Effect of Attachment Trauma on Immigrant Families Facing Separation or Deportation
Lucybel Mendez, M.S., Jacqueline O. Moses, M.S., & Jacqueline B. Duong, B.A. In the past decade, U.S. immigration policies have impacted the lives of immigrant families from Latinx countries. Recently, the “zero-tolerance” policy has enforced […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
New Division 56 Fellow! – Dr. Regina (Gina) McGlinchey
Regina (Gina) McGlinchey is a Supervisory Research Scientist at the VA Boston Healthcare System and Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Since receiving her PhD in Experimental Psychology […]
Member News – Winter 2017
Kalayjian, EdD conducted an all-day workshop on Integrative Healing and Self Care in NYC on September 30th, and gave a lecture October 2nd to Solebury School Community on transforming aggression and bullying, shared hands-on tools for […]
WEIRD Trauma Research: We Can Do Better
By: Cathryn Richmond & Selamawit Hailu Approximately 99% of all psychological research has been conducted by researchers at Western universities with 96% of samples from Western industrialized countries, though these countries represent only 12% of […]