By Sylvia A. Marotta-Walters, PhD Today’s news focuses on building walls and securing borders in order to “Make America Great Again.” This begs the question: How does walling off anything lead to building greatness? An […]
Division 56 Member News Compiled by Ilene Serlin and Lesia M. Ruglass Judith Alpert, PhD and Elizabeth R. Goren, PhD co-edited a book entitled: Psychoanalysis, Trauma, and Community: History and Contemporary Reappraisals. It was published […]
Division 56 has been my home from the moment I became an APA member. Having the opportunity to be part of one of the Division’s publications has been an exciting and humbling experience. Working with the […]
By: Ilene Serlin, PhD, BC-DMT Dance movement therapy (DMT) is a relatively new form of mind/body psychotherapy that builds on the use of nonverbal communication and symbolic movement (Serlin, 2010). Although it has been used in […]
APA Division 56 International Student Travel Assistance Stipend to 2017 APA Convention To encourage international participation, the APA Trauma Psychology Division (56) is providing a travel stipend to attend the 2017 APA Convention for international […]
By: Elizabeth Leuthold, MEd and Alejandra Sequeira, MEd Access to mental health services for children with traumatic experiences is a longstanding challenge (Burns et al., 2004). Children, defined as youth under age 18, are a […]
By: Joan M. Cook. Vanessa Simiola, Elana Newman, and Richard Thompson Psychological trauma and its consequences have been recognized by multiple agencies as a significant concern requiring specialized training for mental health professionals working […]
1) What is your current occupation? I am a pre-doctoral psychology intern at the University of Washington: School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. 2) Where were you educated? I completed my graduate coursework at Idaho […]
Trauma Psychology in Times of Great Change By: Elizabeth Carll, PhD The global community is experiencing unprecedented changes in recent times, most notably in 2017. On the global level, the United Nations (UN) elected a […]
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