The ISSTD Awards Committee is currently accepting nominations for ISSTD Annual Awards and for ISSTD Fellow status to deserving recipients. Below please find information regarding the ISSTD awards categories and links to the Annual Awards and Fellow nomination application forms. The deadline for award nominations is December 31, 2016 at 11:59PM EST. ISSTD ANNUAL AWARDS […]
2017 Annual Conference
Conference Committee Update
We have reached a critical point in the planning for the 2017 Annual ISSTD Conference. Our plenary speakers have been confirmed, our pre & post conference workshops are lined-up. The Call for Submission has closed and we are starting the review process as a precursor to building the program schedule. The review process is managed […]
Letter From The President
The Safety of Our Field
I thought that I might share a semi-random assortment of the feedback you gave in respect to our recent 33rd Annual Conference in San Francisco: “Excellent meeting spaces, well-provisioned, good climate control” “San Francisco is one of my favorite cities to visit. My husband even joined me, and we made it into a mini-vacation. Go […]
Board Briefs
Summer 2016 Board Briefs
The Board of Directors continues to meet monthly, attending to many ongoing and new projects. Our new board members rapidly assimilated with the previous board members, in large part because of our day-long board meeting held at the San Francisco Conference in April. Some of the activity highlights from your current board include: E-Journal We […]
Committee to the UN
Task Force Update
At the UN Task Force conference call on Friday, May 20, 2016, Sonia Smuts hit ‘send’ on our UN ECOSCO (UN Economic and Social Council) application. We now have an ISSTD homepage on the UN website. Vivian Pender spent a great deal of time sharing with us how to use our time and energy at […]
Clinical E-Journal
Update on Launch of Clinical E-Journal
Over the past several years the ISSTD has been working to instigate the development and publication of an E-Journal that would specifically target the treatment of complex trauma and dissociative disorders. This publication would complement the Society’s other Journal, the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, which has a more empirical-focus. The development of the E-Journal […]
Scientific Committee
Four Years of Progress
Dear ISSTD Members, In 2012, the ISSTD Board approved establishment of two new organizational structures: the Scientific Committee and the Scientific Advisory Board. The immediate goal of this initiative was to create a roster of international experts to represent the field publicly. This goal has exceeded all expectation, with the Scientific Committee, for example, being […]
Publications of Interest
Summer 2016 Publications
A sampling of recent articles on dissociation. Kazlauskas E, Javakhishvilli J, Meewisse M, Merecz-Kot D, Şar V, Schäfer I, Schnyder U, Gersons BP. (2016). “Trauma treatment across Europe: where do we stand now from a perspective of seven countries.” European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 2016 Mar 18;7:29450. doi: 10.3402/ejpt.v7.29450. eCollection 2016. PubMed PMID: 26996534; PubMed Central […]
Membership
Membership Growth Around the Globe
G’day from the Membership Committee!! Co-chaired by two Australian members, Sonia Smuts and Warwick Middleton. We are very pleased with the growing interest in the study of trauma and dissociation, which is being mirrored in our Society’s growing membership. Currently, the ISSTD has 1,297 members from across 35 different countries, with at least 250 new […]
Membership
New ISSTD Member “Finds Her Tribe”
As a therapist I have always felt like “the only trauma person in the village.” But at the ISSTD Regional Conference in Sydney last year, I felt like I had finally found my tribe. It was a delight and a comfort to come to San Francisco, my home-away-from-home, for the Annual Conference. I arrived a […]