We would like to introduce you to the Education and Training Oversight Committee (ETOC)! The ETOC, which began meeting in January 2025, is ISSTD’s newest committee charged by the Board to coordinate ISSTD’s educational components across its various education and training opportunities, in alignment with the current strategic plan. This includes assessing and updating ISSTD’s […]
Committee Update
Nominating Committee Update
The Nominating Committee is responsible for developing candidates for both the ISSTD officers and Board members. The committee is Chaired by the Immediate Past President and meets throughout the year beginning in the late spring. Committee members are Board members who have a sense of potential candidates for the open positions in any given year. […]
Special Interest Groups
Eating Disorders SIG Update
The Eating Disorders Special Interest Group (ED SIG) was formed three years ago with a mission to examine the intersection of eating disorders, trauma and dissociation with the goal of increasing integrative knowledge of these two fields and applying this to developing treatment competency. The founding executive committee members each had experience working with clients […]
2026 Annual Conference
Annual Conference Committee Update – Limited Time Remains to Submit Your Proposal!
Proposals are open! You have something to say. How many times do you try to tell people what you see, hear, and know about dissociation? What do you deeply wish every therapist and researcher knew, so people who dissociate could be seen, heard, and helped with dignity? Never presented before? ISSTD is providing guidance on […]
Volunteer Opportunity Spotlight
Volunteer Opportunity Spotlight
This month’s Volunteer Position Spotlight shines on the opportunity to become a Coordinator for Publications of Interest! Publications of Interest is a quarterly feature of ISSTD News. Each edition compiles recent articles on a topic of interest, and your role is to share the title, abstract, and link to each article—no critique or summary required! […]
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
JTD Table of Contents – July 2025
Volume 26, Issue 4Volume 26, Issue 3Volume 26, Issue 2Volume 26, Issue 1 Volume 25, Issue 5Volume 25, Issue 4Volume 25, Issue 3Volume 25, Issue 2Volume 25, Issue 1 Did you know ISSTD members receive online access to the full JTD? View this video for more instructions on how to access the online version and […]
Letter From The President
Caring for Others, Caring for Ourselves
Dear ISSTD Community, What a month it’s been! Owing to that, this is going to a shorter message than you’ve been accustomed to seeing from me. I mentioned last month that one of the antidotes to the sense of isolation that might be evoked by the heightened stress and strain of life these days is […]
News You Can Use
News You Can Use – June 2025
Upcoming Events in the Field IVAT: 30th San Diego International Summit on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma Across the LifespanLocation: Town and Country Resort | San Diego, California, USADates: August 17 – August 21, 2025Learn More 2025 ISTSS Graduate Applicant Workshop and PI Networking FairLocation: Baltimore, Maryland, USADate: September 19 | 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM […]
Committee Update
Introduction to the ISSTD Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Accessibility (IDEA Statement)
On behalf of the ISSTD Board IDEA Working Group, I am excited to share with you the ISSTD Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Accessibility (IDEA) Statement. In this brief, I would like to discuss the process by which we created the Statement. In line with the ISSTD Strategic Plan, the IDEA Board Working Group began the […]
Board Briefs
2025 Second Quarter Board Brief
Greetings, We hope this message finds you on a sunny sojourn. Here are a few updates from the ISSTD Board of Directors: Chicago Regional ConferenceThe upcoming regional conference is nearly here! Scheduled for July 18-19 in Downtown Chicago, at the DePaul University Loop Campus, the event will feature two engaging full-day trainings. On Friday, Wendy […]