Archive for June 2023
Book Review – The blue dragonfly: Healing through poetry
By Veronica Eley2021Hidden Brook Press Veronica Eley’s The Blue Dragonfly: healing through poetry offers an unusually poignant testament of the poet’s decades-spanning struggle with traumatic after-effects in daily life. Eley’s poems trace a lifelong struggle with mental illness that first emerges in childhood. By age 7 she was: “alreadyshowing signsof emotionaldisturbancebipolarin today’s terms.” She portrays…
Read MoreCALL FOR FELLOWS
DUE DATE: November 1 Fellows Committee Chair:Priscilla Dass-Brailsfordpd227@georgetown.eduPhone: 202-706-5078 Fellow status in APA is given to those who have made unusual and outstanding contributions to the field of trauma psychology. Their distinguished contributions are the foundation on which the future of trauma psychology builds. Fellows make on-going contributions to science, practice, and public policy through…
Read MoreIntegrating familismo into evidence-based trauma therapies to increase treatment engagement among Latine youth
Yesenia Aguilar Silvan & Lauren C. NgSection Editor: Antonella BarianiPeer Reviewers: Linda Zheng & Molly Becker Trauma Exposure Disparities for Latine Youth By age 17, 46% of youth in the United States will have experienced at least one potentially traumatic event such as community violence or family separation (Sacks & Murphey, 2018). This major public…
Read MoreExploring the Wellness of Black Women Who Describe a Criterion A Trauma in their Life Story
Jessica Krukowski, Ed St. Aubin, & Karen RobinsonSection Editor: Sydney Timmer-Murillo Black women live in an intersection between two marginalized identities: their Blackness and their womanhood (King, 2019). Oftentimes the challenges Black men and boys face become synonymous with the entire Black experience (Patton et al., 2016). As a result, solidarity becomes asymmetrical, and the…
Read MoreContextualizing Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders
Multicultural Considerations for the Past, Present, & Future of our Field Nicholas A. Pierorazio, Christina M. Dardis, & Bethany L. BrandSection Editor: Claire J. Starrs Dissociation is presently understood as a disconnection and/or disintegration in consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, somatic experience, motor functioning, and/or behavior (American Psychiatric Association, 2022). Dissociation may range from being…
Read MoreRMHRN and International Committee Updates
Elizabeth CarllSection Editor; Founder & Chair, Refugee Mental Health Resource Network Refugee Mental Health Resource Network The Refugee Mental Health Resource Network (RMHRN) free webinar on Cybersecurity was unique for the RMHRN as it addressed the increasing concerns that have arisen from colleagues being hacked and data lost or stolen, resulting in access to confidential…
Read MoreWho’s Who: Ilene Serlin, PhD
Dr. Ilene A. Serlin, BC-DMT she/herPsychologist and Dance Therapist Formal education: Areas of expertise/interests: Existential/humanistic psychology, all the arts, travel and cross-cultural exchanges Self-care activities: Dance, yoga, hiking, sleep, healthy diet, friends, love, family, reading, films, the arts, painting watercolors What led you to this Field and career path? I have been a folk dancer…
Read MoreMy daughter was murdered: “There are no words”
Deborah A. Stiles There are no words. I am a white woman who is a professor and psychologist; I suffered a traumatic loss in 2022 when my 34-year-old African American foster daughter was murdered. Although we were not biologically related, I was her mother, and she was my daughter; I deeply cherished and depended upon…
Read MorePresident’s Column – Summer 2023
Healing from trauma involves rebuilding our ability to trust – trust in people – trust in institutions – trust in oneself. Effective trauma therapy helps restore that trust. Today, I feel humbled that my patients trust me and hear me when I demonstrate belief in their value, their goodness, and their recovery. I continue to…
Read MoreEditorial Note – Summer 2023
Dear TPN friends, THE EDITORIAL TEAM & I WISH YOU A WARM WELCOME to the Trauma Psychology News Summer 2023 issue, themed “Spectrums and continuums.” June is a month of honoring, awareness, and celebration, from Pride Month, Juneteenth, Gun Violence Awareness Month, PTSD Awareness Month, and more. This issue points to the spectrum of experiences…
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