Division 56 programming for the 2020 APA Virtual Convention Invited Panel Discussions: Transcending Divisiveness: Depolarizing Practices from Around the Globe A live action role modeling of how to have courageous conversations around having different perspectives, […]
The world is up-ended. As psychologists, we would say that the world is dysregulated now. Emotional dysregulation is when people are unable to control or regulate their emotional reactions to “provocative stimuli”. A pandemic is […]
Patricia A O’Gorman, PhD, Samuel M. Hall, MA, MAC, CASAC, & Col. C. David Merkel, MD Zoom has exploded into the recent vacuum created by the need to socially distance in all walks of life, […]
Immigrants are the fastest growing population in the United States (U.S.), with more than half of the 44 million foreign-born residents and 11 million undocumented immigrants being from Latin America (Passel & Cohn, 2019; Radford […]
Skylee Campbell and Ta-Keisha Smith One concept that is not often discussed or taught in the process of training is the cost of caring (Figley & Ludick, 2017). “The expectation that we can be immersed […]
Firefighting is one of the most physically and psychologically demanding professions. Wildland firefighters are a special breed. Whereas structure firefighters focus on fire suppression in communities and protecting property such as homes and vehicles, wildland […]
Preventing Professional Trauma Responses It is well known in trauma research that psychotherapists who work with trauma survivors are prone to their own troubling traumatic responses, such as vicarious traumatization, counter trauma, and secondary victimization. […]
Dr. Ani Kalayjian, Jasmin Guevarra, and Erin Antona Introduction Towards the end of 2019, the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) began in China and quickly spread to other countries within months. COVID-19 is an infectious virus […]
Jonathan Cleveland, Ph.D. Greetings, Welcome to the summer issue of Trauma Psychology News. Clinicians specializing in trauma treatment find themselves in formidably turbulent times. With all that our readers are doing to help, the editorial […]
Carolyn Allard, Ph.D. To be sure, 2020 will go down in history (and it is barely halfway through). My hope is that what will earn its place in the history books will be the humanity […]
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