International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) 39th Annual Meeting

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) 39th Annual Meeting is organized by International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) and will be held from Nov 01 - 04, 2023 at The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Description:
The Meeting will focus on innovative strategies can be used (and scaled up) to address the impact of traumatic stress on mental and physical health. In pursuit of this goal, we seek presentations examining scalable strategies and technological innovations for studying and treating PTSD. Furthermore, we seek presentations that cut across traditional diagnostic categories and adopt dimensional and multiple-levels-of-analysis approaches to understanding trauma-related psychopathology. Additionally, we are interested in research that addresses multimorbidity in the context of trauma. We welcome presentations that speak to the comorbidity of psychological conditions after trauma, as well as to the interplay of mental and physical health after traumatic events.

With respect to intervention work, innovative transdiagnostic treatment approaches and treatments designed to address comorbidity in the aftermath of trauma will align closely with the meeting’s theme. The goals of this meeting are to showcase the connections that can be made when we widen our scope beyond PTSD and to demonstrate how appreciating these processes and impacts can inform a more comprehensive approach to improving the lives of individuals who experience trauma.

Learning Objectives:
• Describe how technological innovations can be implemented to study or treat PTSD.
• Describe how transdiagnostic framework can be used to understand manifestations of psychopathology after trauma exposure
• Identify innovative and scalable approaches to examine in which experiences of traumatic stress can contribute to adverse mental and physical health
• Discuss advances in innovative and scalable trauma-focused interventions that address a broad range of consequences of trauma for health.