by Courtney McCrimmon, 4th Year Graduate Student From Bench to Bedside and Beyond: Advancing Translational Science in Traumatic Stress Studies — that was the theme for the 40th Annual International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) Meeting in Boston, MA this past September. The ISTSS Annual Meeting offers a forum for researchers to share evidence-basedContinue reading “Sharing Research, Discovering Momentum”
Author Archives: Anne P. DePrince, PhD
A Season of Change: October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Change is hard. That’s the story we tell ourselves. Though it’s not the whole story. Change can also be energizing, validating, exciting. Irresistible, even. Of course, when it comes to domestic violence, change definitely seems just plain old hard. After all, intimate partner abuse remains stubbornly common, with evidence pointing to increases in recent years.Continue reading “A Season of Change: October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month”
Humbled…In All the Right Ways
by Leah Waltrip (2nd Year TSS Group Member, Clinical/DCN Graduate Student) This past June, I found myself frantically packing an absurdly large, 75-pound suitcase with just about everything you could need for a 6-week trip. I have always gone through life being overprepared. I am the person whose car is stocked with hand lotion andContinue reading “Humbled…In All the Right Ways”
Looking for Change in All the Wrong Places
A lifetime or so ago, I sat around a conference table with folks from the Rocky Mountain Victim Law Center (RMvlc) and several community- and system-based agencies who worked with crime victims and survivors in Denver. The group was interested in responding to a solicitation from the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) to makeContinue reading “Looking for Change in All the Wrong Places”
Hearing My Words in Someone Else’s Voice
One day, shortly after hard copies of Every 90 Seconds arrived with their periwinkle covers to my doorstep, I rounded the corner into the office I share with my spouse and stopped short. I heard familiar words — words that sounded a lot like my words — in someone else’s voice. The voice was SusanContinue reading “Hearing My Words in Someone Else’s Voice”
#SAAM Remix
Last week wrapped up Sexual Assault Awareness Month (#SAAM) for 2024. During SAAM, I shared images on social media that amplified themes from Every 90 Seconds about moving from individual awareness of the problem of sexual assault to collaborative action. With this remix, the images now appear together in the gallery below. Behind the scenes,Continue reading “#SAAM Remix”
When Wearing Jeans is Practice for Building a Better World Together
I love Denim Day. And I’ve finally figured out why. Denim Day comes around once a year during April’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month – typically the last Wednesday of the month. Maybe you were among the people last week around the globe (including my home state of Colorado) who arrived in schools and workplaces, parks and stores, livingContinue reading “When Wearing Jeans is Practice for Building a Better World Together”
Leveraging March Themes to Inspire Action
A lot gets packed into the 31 days of March — and I’m talking about more than just March Madness and the wild spring-to-winter-and-back-again weather in Denver. After all, March plays host to both Brain Injury Awareness Month and Women’s History Month. Both offer us terrific opportunities to invite new people into conversations about ourContinue reading “Leveraging March Themes to Inspire Action”
When Institutions Betray: A New Research Review
by Kim-Chi Pham, Maria-Ernestina, Adi Rosenthal, & Anne DePrince “One of the few people that I told that I was being sexually harassed was one of the most vocal and prominent advocates for Asian Americans. And I sort of told him, as a testing ground, to see if he would believe me. And he justContinue reading “When Institutions Betray: A New Research Review”
Imperfect Stories, Right on Time
My mother loved stories – long or short, hers or yours, finished or half-baked. For as long as I can recall, her stories were an adventure of sorts. You never quite knew where they were going to slide off some unseen edge. She might arrive mid-story and forget the end, something about the middle, orContinue reading “Imperfect Stories, Right on Time”
Trauma Research Notes 