This year is starting out with wonderful new benefits and opportunities and your Board has been busy overseeing the development and implementation of these. One of our new changes is the rollout of ISSTDWorld, the new online home for ISSTD. This new platform connects members in many ways, making connection just a click away for […]
Letter From The President
Welcome to 2019: Thoughts for the Next Decade
Hello ISSTD Members, I welcome everyone to our first newsletter of 2019. I cannot convey enough how honoured I am to be leading this amazing organization into the next decade. This will be my ninth year as a board member. I have been able to watch this society go through some tough times, witness some […]
News You Can Use
News You Can Use
ISSTD Member authors two new Chapters on Trauma and Addiction ISSTD Member Ericha Scott, PhD, has just published two book chapters in the integrative medicine text: Integrative Addiction and Recovery, edited by Shahla Modir and George Munoz. Ericha, who has previously had her creative works published in ISSTD News Creative Space, writes – as lead […]
Clinical E-Journal
JTD & Frontiers Table of Contents (January 2019)
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation Check out the entire library online of the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation – your member benefit – now! Table of Contents Volume 20, Issue 1 Volume 19, Issue 2 Volume 19, Issue 3 Volume 19, Issue 4 Volume 19, Issue 5 Are you interested in auto publication alerts? To set up a […]
2019 Annual Conference
2019 Annual Conference – Social Events
The ISSTD 36th Annual International Conference is coming up soon! Take a look at all of the exciting social events available for conference attendees to network and recharge from all of the incredible training opportunities. Friday, 29 March 2019 New Attendee Orientation Join ISSTD luminaries and board members for a quick debrief on how to […]
Special Interest Groups
Introducing our brand-new Vicarious Trauma SIG
Vicarious Trauma, the therapists’ traumatic stress reaction when hearing their clients’ trauma stories was described in professional literature by McCann and Pearlman during the 1990’s. However, we have long used a range of words to describe this reaction, including secondary trauma, compassion fatigue and even plain old “burn out”. Whatever we call it, most of […]
Creative Space
Creative Space
The Arts chose me at the age of 37 when she compelled me to leave a career as an international tax advisor. I was completing my second degree, this one in law, when the calling came and I dropped out with 1 year to go and started a career in the arts. I still don’t […]
Community Spotlight
Website Committee
We’re making great progress on the new website. What a project it has been! Hot off the presses, here are some updates: ISSTDWorld has been up and running since October 2018, and, even with the learning curve, it has really taken off. It offers opportunities for creating community within ISSTD that previously were beyond our […]
Regional Conferences
Introducing our Plenary Speakers for the ISSTD Regional Conference: Christchurch (Otautahi), New Zealand
This year ISSTD is pleased to offer an exciting regional conference in one of the most beautiful locations in theworld, the South Island of New Zealand. This is a bi-national regional conference co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia. To be held from November 22nd-24th, 2019, this will be ISSTD’s first ever conference in New Zealand. […]
Letter From The President
A Holiday Message from ISSTD
Greetings ISSTD Members, 2018 has been an eventful year. Outstanding steps were taken towards meeting our Mission: “To advance clinical, scientific, and societal understanding about the prevalence and consequences of chronic trauma and dissociation.” I would like to share some of them with you and to acknowledge all the hard work done by our volunteers. […]