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 […]
Fall 2019
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 […]
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 […]
Letters to the Editor
To Whom it May Concern: It was a Thursday. My professor gave each of the students a copy of an e-mail we had received earlier that day. He asked if we knew what receivership was; […]
LGBTQ+ Sexual Trauma Survivors: Motivational Interviewing as an Approach to Clinical Work
Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) encompass members of the LGBTQ+ community as well as any individuals whose sexual orientation, gender identity, and reproductive development is considered to be outside physio-socio-cultural norms (NIH, 2019). SGM individuals […]
Is There Room for Trauma Work in Inpatient Care: The perspective of an Acute-Care Psychologist
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of attention paid to trauma-informed care. It is not surprising then, at least for our area of New York, that I “grew up” in professional families in […]
Supervision in a Veterans Health Administration Outpatient PTSD Clinic: Reflections on Beneficial Practices for Psychology Trainees
A growing number of veterans are accessing treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In 2015, over 568,000 veterans received treatment for […]
Meaningfulworld 14th Humanitarian Mission to Haiti
Meaningfulworld 14th Humanitarian Mission to Haiti, 16-25 August, 2019 Stepping into Health with Joy: 7-Steps for Healing our Mind, Body, Spirit & Mother Earth Dr Kalayjian, Dr Medina, & Lorraine Simmons In collaboration with Meaningfulworld Haiti […]
Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth in Therapists Working with Severe Mental Illness
Phenomena like burnout popularly plague mental health (Morse, Salyers, Rollins, Monroe-DeVita, & Pfahler, 2012). Therapists working with clients who have experienced trauma are even more susceptible to the characteristic symptoms of burnout, including exhaustion, cynicism, […]
Similarity between Non-Consensual Sharing of Images and Sexual Assault: Questions about the Construct Validity of PTSD
Michael J. Perrotti, PhD. forensicpsychdoc@sbcglobal.net Klein and Zaleski (2018) conducted research on classifying the non-consensual sharing of images as sexual assault. The authors conducted a qualitative analysis on issues focused on the intersection of sexual […]