With April being Child Abuse Prevention Month and the ISSTD’s Child and Youth Month, what better time than to provide an update on the ISSTD’s Child & Adolescent Special Interest Group (C&A SIG)! With growth in membership over the last year, the C&A SIG is currently 46 members strong, all who bring a wealth of […]
Call for Proposals
Call for Proposals – April 2023
COBRE Center for Stress, Trauma and Resilience As part of ISSTD’s 2021-2023 Strategic Plan, we want to support you to spread the knowledge of trauma and dissociation at other conferences! In order to facilitate this goal ISSTD will be periodically sharing information about open call for proposals for submissions at other conferences in the field. […]
Letter From The President
A Labor of Love – the 2023 ISSTD Annual Conference
Dear ISSTD community, Next month is our ISSTD Annual Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, with pre-conference workshops on April 13 and 14 before the conference runs from April 15 to 17. The conference is very much a labor of love for our hard-working staff, Conference Committee and the many volunteers who make the conference possible. Please […]
News You Can Use
News You Can Use
IFS for Trauma and Dissociation ISSTD Member, Joanne Twombly has written a new book about the use of IFS in the treatment of trauma and Dissociation. Published in January, Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems: How to Successfully Treat C-PTSD, and Dissociative Disorders is available in paperback and kindle versions. Readers will learn in-depth […]
2023 Annual Conference
Don’t Miss Out on These Social Events at the 2023 Annual Conference!
While not in one of our many sessions during this year’s annual conference, join us for a variety of social events! ISSTD has a variety of offerings throughout the conference to allow our members from all over the world the opportunity to connect in person. Learn more below about our various social events. Friday Morning […]
DID Awareness Day
DID Awareness Day Webinar 2023: What does healing look like?
On 6 March ISSTD was proud to join with An Infinite Mind, System Speak, Beauty After Bruises and Blue Knot Foundation to hold the third annual DID Awareness Day Webinar. This webinar is targeted towards people living with DID, and their family and friends. The theme for this year was ‘What does healing look like?’ […]
Creative Space
ISSTD NEWS Celebrates World Poetry Day, 2023
March 21 is World Poetry Day. On the UNESCO website for the day, poetry is described as a vitally important and universal form of cultural expression: “Practiced throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a […]
Publications of Interest
Publications of Interest
This month in our quarterly column, Publications of Interest, we are bringing you a selection of recently published articles that are all Open Access. We hope you enjoy catching up on some professional reading! Dorahy, M.J., Kumar Yogeeswaran, K. & Middleton, W. (2023). Dissociation-Induced Shame in Those with a Dissociative Disorder: Assessing the Impact of […]
Research Recruitment
Seeking Participant Information – The Experiences of Counselors Who Treat Persons with Dissociative Identity Disorder
I am a doctoral student at Walden University and am presently conducting research for my study on Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). I am seeking participants to help me gather information on their experiences in working with individuals with DID. There is a lot of literature on the problem of misdiagnosis and how the inexperience of […]
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
JTD Table of Contents (March 2023)
Volume 24, Issue 3Volume 24, Issue 2Volume 24, Issue 1 Volume 23, Issue 1Volume 23, Issue 2Volume 23, Issue 3Volume 23, Issue 4Volume 23, Issue 5 Are you interested in auto publication alerts?To set up a quick and easy way to get a ‘new content alerts’ for JTD, go to the JTD page at Taylor & […]