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Join Trauma Talks hosts Dr. Melissa Zielinski and Marley Fraley as they talk with Dr. Hsing-Fang Hsieh and Dr. Marc Zimmerman of the University of Michigan's Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention. This final installment of April's Friday Fast Facts series highlights a discussion regarding the disparities regarding firearm injury and violence exposure resulting from racism and structural racism. 

This podcast focuses on the topic of systemic betrayal and explores the biopsychosocial-spiritual impact of systemic failures. Dr. Ford will serve as content expert on systemic betrayal and Complex PTSD (CPTSD) and Dr. Stoycheva will serve as content expert on systemic betrayal and Moral Injury (MI). Dr. Khan, with a background in both MI and CPTSD, will serve as moderator. This discussion will provide a rich discussion of how traumatic events encountered within various systems (e.g., foster system, military) shape development, the phenomenological overlap of CPTSD and MI, the role of intersectionality, and some possible treatment implications for clinicians working with survivors of systemic betrayal.

New TraumaTalk podcast episode with ISTSS Global Climate Change and Trauma briefing paper coauthors Jura L. Augustinavicius, PhD (McGill University and Johns Hopkins University); Sarah R. Lowe, PhD (Yale University); and Alessandro Massazza, PhD (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine).

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In this installment of the ISTSS podcast Trauma Talk, co-hosts Dr. Melissa Zielinski and Dr. Anne Wagner talk to Dr. Denise Hien, Dr. Sonya Norman, Dr. Sudie Back, and Dr. Debra Kaysen. Their conversation covers Substance Use Disorder (SUD) as a co-morbidity with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This expert panel will discuss the rates of comorbidity as well as how to proceed with treatment.

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In this podcast, Dr. Kelly Maieritsch and Dr. Tara Galovski review some of the challenges clinicians face when providing trauma-focused treatments.  Included in their discussion are highlights of “roadblocks” or commonly recognized barriers to initiating and completing treatment, such as avoidance and clinical complexities.  

In this podcast episode, Dr. Melanie Harned talks to us about when and how to provide trauma-focused treatment to patients at high risk for suicide. She discusses readiness criteria for initiating trauma-focused PTSD treatment and strategies for how to address suicidality when it emerges during treatment.