What with the snow (yes! snow in Richmond in MARCH!), the changeover from one platform to another, and just life in general, I’m behind on postings. But boy, do I have things to share… I’m hoping to post a bit more this week to get caught up.
The first thing I wanted to share was a new journal that’s available to University of Richmond faculty and students through our PsychInfo subscription.
Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy® covers “empirical research on the psychological effects of trauma. The journal is intended to be a forum for an interdisciplinary discussion on trauma, blending science, theory, practice, and policy.” The editorial board includes editors from the VA’s National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, the Australian Center for Posttraumatic Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Center for Torture Trauma Survivors at Emory University, among others.
The first issue includes six articles on topics that range from “The relevance of trauma to general clinical practice” by Steven N. Gold to “Loss, trauma, and human resilience: Have we underestimated the human capacity to thrive after extremely aversive events?” by George A. Bonanno. A literature review covering 25 years of research into gender differences in PTSD experience (”Sex differences in trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder: A quantitative review of 25 years of research.) references 375 other scholarly articles, and would be a great resource for research on that topic.
This journal will likely be a good complement to the Journal of Psychological Trauma, also available through our PsychInfo subscription.
If you are a University of Richmond faculty member or student who would like information on how to set up Table of Content alerts when a new issue of either of these journals is published, please contact me.