Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
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Mission & Scope
Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy® publishes empirical research on the psychological effects of trauma. The journal is intended to be a forum for an interdisciplinary discussion on trauma, blending science, theory, practice, and policy.
The journal publishes empirical research on a wide range of trauma-related topics, including:
- Psychological treatments and effects
- Promotion of education about effects of and treatment for trauma
- Assessment and diagnosis of trauma
- Pathophysiology of trauma reactions
- Health services (delivery of services to trauma populations)
- Epidemiological studies and risk factor studies
- Neuroimaging studies
- Trauma and cultural competence
The journal publishes articles that use experimental and correlational methods and qualitative analyses, if applicable.
All research reports should reflect methodologically rigorous designs that aim to significantly enhance the field's understanding of trauma. Such reports should be based on good theoretical foundations and integrate theory and data. Manuscripts should be of sufficient length to ensure theoretical and methodological competence.
Recent Articles from Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
- Sexual violence in India: Psychological impact and response strategies.
- Adaptation and preliminary validation of the Psychosocial Assessment Tool for War and Terrorism (PAT-WT).
- The effect of posttraumatic cognitions on PTSD in nonoffending parents of child sexual abuse: The aggravating role of negative self-compassion and emotive regulation.
- The bidirectional relationship between PTSD and psychosis.
- A conceptual review of phenomenological links between trauma and the content of psychotic symptoms.
- The direct and indirect effects of event centrality, identity, and trauma type on posttraumatic stress disorder among college students in India.
- Network analysis of vicarious trauma and vicarious posttraumatic growth among oncology nurses.
- The role of social workers in building resilience after climate change–related disasters in Zimbabwe.
- Measuring secondary traumatic stress in therapists: A systematic review.
- Society versus self: Who stops sexual assault—culture or individuals?
- Assessment of childbirth-related PTSD: Psychometric properties of the Ukrainian version of the City Birth Trauma Scale.
- Validation of the polish city birth trauma scale: Links to sensory processing sensitivity and birth satisfaction.
- Treatment outcomes of sexual minority women (SMW) veterans with military sexual trauma (MST).
- Recalled parent–child interactions that characterize “risky” early family environments.
- Perceptions of and experiences with trauma-informed care principles among pediatric occupational therapists.
- Examination of posttraumatic stress symptoms and posttraumatic growth after high-magnitude earthquakes in Kahramanmaras.
- Deciphering the impact of childhood trauma on schizophrenia: A qualitative case study of dialogical aspects.
- Complex posttraumatic stress disorder and prolonged grief disorder in times of war: Diagnostic symptoms and impact on the mental health of Ukrainian civilians during the Russia–Ukraine war.
- 2SLGBTQ+ competent trauma-informed care: A mixed methods evaluation of an intervention to enhance the capacity of multidisciplinary service providers.
- Posttraumatic stress disorder and susceptibility to misinformation for an analogue trauma event.
- Evaluating the indirect effect of child maltreatment on trait aggression through shame coping styles.
- Psychological impacts of the 2023 Turkey earthquake within the framework of the conservation of resources theory: Relationships between earthquake exposure, depression, posttraumatic growth, social support, and religious coping.
- Treatment for co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders among veterans and civilians: A test of causally moderated comparative effectiveness.
- Narrative exposure group therapy for posttraumatic stress symptoms among a small group of internally displaced women in Ethiopia: An uncontrolled pre–postintervention study.
- Does escaping a war zone feel worse than being there? War and coping by Ukrainian civilians in Ukraine and Poland.
- Anticipatory grief and perseverative worry: Psychological impacts on Ukrainian migrants from the 2022 Russian invasion.
- Identifying PTSD trajectories and associated factors in disaster victims.
- Avoidant coping behaviors as risk factor in the relationship between heterosexism and PTSD severity among young sexual minority women.
- Confucian-based dual process bereavement group intervention (C-DPBGI) for bereaved survivors of the earthquake.
- Moral injury in health workers, emergency services, police, government officials, and teachers: Measurement invariance of the Occupational Moral Injury Scale (OMIS) and group comparisons.
- Sexual orientation-related victimization and posttrauma reckless and self-destructive behaviors in trauma-exposed sexual minority adults.
- Unlocking resilience in the face of user aggression: Preliminary psychometric evaluation of the Italian Trauma-related Coping Self-Efficacy Scale among hospital health care professionals.
- Posttraumatic stress symptoms in Australian parents of autistic children: Factor structure of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) and the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (PCL-5).
- ICD-11 PTSD, complex PTSD, and substance use disorder: Associations and clinical correlates.
- Cognitive appraisal as a mediator of the relations between war experiences and PTSD in the formerly abducted youth in Northern Uganda: Findings from the WAYS study.
- Female gender, sexist maltreatment, adverse childhood events, and psychological symptoms: A case of omitted-variable bias.
- The application of expressive art therapies for survivors of child sexual abuse.
- The role of different types of stress on relationship satisfaction: A dyadic longitudinal study.
- Disaggregating the heterogeneity of DSM-5 posttraumatic stress symptoms and disorder among justice-involved adolescents.
- Caregivers’ perceptions of concurrent adverse childhood experiences screening and a family resilience program in the pediatric setting.
- Assessing disorganized attachment by self-report: Psychometric evaluation of the Disorganized Response Scale (DRS).
- Relationships between childhood maltreatment, posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, and stressful life events: Evidence from unintended pregnancy.
- Posttraumatic stress disorder in adulthood after the experience of childhood maltreatment: Does attachment to foster or biological parents make a difference?
- Psychometric properties of the Metacognitions Questionnaire–30 in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Examining associations between posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters and intimate partner violence use.
- Assessing symptom change in massed PTSD treatments: Psychometric evaluation of the past day posttraumatic stress disorder checklist for DSM-5.
- Five-year stability patterns of meaning in life among survivors and bereaved family members of the Sewol ferry disaster.
- Is trauma isolating, or does isolation traumatize? Loneliness and posttraumatic stress mutually reinforce one another in the aftermath of environmental disaster.
- Gender as moderator of the relations between interpersonal and noninterpersonal trauma exposure and mental health problems in conflict-affected children and adolescents.
- Exposures to potentially psychologically traumatic events: A national study of correctional workers in Canadian provinces and territories.
- Influence of trauma on longitudinal association between depressive symptoms and use of alcohol and cannabis among young people.
- The effect of the Russian invasion on mental, social, and behavioral health among Ukrainians living in the United States.
- Patterns and correlates of traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, and moral injury in U.S. health care providers late in the COVID-19 pandemic.
- War’s unseen wounds: Physical proximity to the war, event centrality, and PTSD symptoms in the context of Russian–Ukrainian armed conflict: A moderating model.
- Burnout, racial trauma, and protective experiences of Black psychologists and counselors.
- Understanding the dyadic mental health of refugee parents and children after fleeing the 2022 Ukraine war.
- Interventions for professional trauma caregivers: A meta-analysis.
- “Holding the badness”: Therapists’ experiences of treating incestuous abuse continuing into adulthood.
- The longitudinal association of adverse events and working memory among preschoolers: A random-intercept cross-lag analysis.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD
Texas Tech University School of Medicine at Amarillo, United States
Associate Editors
Tyson Bailey, PsyD
Kenmore, Washington, United States
Diane Elmore Borbon, PhD, MPH
Duke University School of Medicine, United States
Paul Frewen, PhD
Western University, Ontario, Canada
Sylvia Marotta-Walters, PhD
George Washington University, United States
Sandra Mattar, PsyD
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center & Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, United States
Ian H. Stanley, PhD
University of Colorado, United States
Jack Tsai, PhD
University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
Rachel Wamser, PhD
University of Missouri–St. Louis, United States
Associate Editor for Statistics
Zhen Cong, PhD
University of Texas at Arlington, United States
Editorial Board
Stephen Abeyta, PhD
New York University, United States
Shane Adams, PhD
VA Palo Alto Health Care System, United States
Dean Ajdukovic, PhD
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Urwah Ali, MPhil
Foundation University Islamabad, Pakistan
Carolyn Allard, PhD
University of California at San Diego, United States
Virgínia Alves, PhD Student
University of Minho, Portugal
Siraj Alyami, MA
Ashford University, United States
Hadis Amiri, PhD
Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran