by Amber Fredrick New research from our Traumatic Stress Studies Group aimed to answer questions about the real-world impact of survivor-centered care, championed by victim-service providers. For instance, is survivor-centered care was linked to important survivor outcomes – from empowerment and PTSD symptoms to people’s intention to seek help in the future? To answer suchContinue reading “Survivor-Center Care Matters: New Preliminary Findings”
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From Downtown Denver to You: Returning Our Research to the Community
The first week of August brought thousands of psychologists to downtown Denver for the American Psychology Association (APA) annual convention. Across poster sessions, three current TSS Group Team Members Amber Fredrick, Courtney McCrimmon, and Leah Waltrip shared some of our work with colleagues. And now we’re excited to share those posters and that work withContinue reading “From Downtown Denver to You: Returning Our Research to the Community”
Alienation and Trauma in Older Adults
Whether traumas happen earlier or later in life, feeling disconnected means more mental health symptoms. Humans need relationships and connections to survive and thrive. After all, we are social creatures. When one human victimizes another, that betrayal can leave survivors feeling alienated – disconnected and unmoored from themselves and other people. In turn, alienation hasContinue reading “Alienation and Trauma in Older Adults”
Your Brain on Relationships: The Story Behind A New Study
by Rebecca Suzuki, TSS Group Team Member In one interview after another, women shared stories of injuries to their heads and necks during intimate partner violence (IPV) – injuries that likely disrupted the normal function of the brain. Across interviews, a pattern emerged: survivors often described multiple lifetime injuries that met screening criteria for aContinue reading “Your Brain on Relationships: The Story Behind A New Study”
Opposite Action in Difficult Times
For the service providers and survivors with whom our research team works, for our team, for colleagues and students, for friends and loved ones…it has been a very long week. A long 10 days, really, during which rapidly unfolding events have sowed chaos, confusion, and fear. A palpable overwhelm has left many feeling small andContinue reading “Opposite Action in Difficult Times”
Survivor-Centered Care: New Research on the Horizon
by Amber Fredrick, TSS Group Member, 2nd Year Graduate Student In my time as an advocate, I have spent many long nights in emergency rooms and early mornings in court rooms working with survivors to get the care they need. In navigating these complicated systems that often leave survivors feeling confused, overwhelmed, and frustrated, IContinue reading “Survivor-Centered Care: New Research on the Horizon”
Sharing Research, Discovering Momentum
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”
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”
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”
Sharing Research in Socially-Distanced Times
The pandemic has only amplified the importance of doing research into the causes and consequences of violence as well as effective responses. However, sharing that research looks different these days. In the Fall, our team typically heads off to the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) to share our workContinue reading “Sharing Research in Socially-Distanced Times”
Trauma Research Notes 