The global collaboration on traumatic stress

Schnyder, Ulrich, Schäfer, Ingo, Aakvaag, Helene F., Ajdukovic, Dean, Bakker, Anne, Bisson, Jonathan I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5170-1243, Brewer, Douglas, Cloitre, Marylène, Dyb, Grete A., Frewen, Paul, Lanza, Juliana, Le Brocque, Robyne, Lueger-Schuster, Brigitte, Mwiti, Gladys K., Oe, Misari, Rosner, Rita, Schellong, Julia, Shigemura, Jun, Wu, Kitty and Olff, Miranda 2017. The global collaboration on traumatic stress. European Journal of Psychotraumatology 8 (sup7) , 1403257. 10.1080/20008198.2017.1403257

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Abstract

Trauma is a global issue. The great majority of the global burden of disease arising from mental health conditions occurs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), among populations in political, economic, and/or cultural transition and those struck by forced migration. These mental health problems frequently arise as a result of traumatic events that adversely affect adults, children, and families, including war, mass violence, natural disasters, and accidents. In response to this, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) launched the Global Initiative to have a stronger global impact on trauma-related issues. As part of this initiative, the Global Collaboration was established by representatives of eight professional organizations active in the field of traumatic stress. The group decided to focus on childhood abuse and neglect as its first collaboration. They collected guidelines worldwide, providing the basis for a synthesized core guide for prevention and treatment that can be customized for specific cultural contexts. The resulting ‘Internet information on Childhood Abuse and Neglect’ (iCAN) is a comprehensive guide for adults who have been affected by childhood abuse and neglect, as well as for the survivors’ significant others. It is currently provided in eight languages, and is freely available at the homepage of ISTSS and other websites. A second achievement of the Global Collaboration is the validation of the Computerized Childhood Attachment and Relational Trauma Screen (CARTS), a self-report measure designed to measure occurrences of childhood maltreatment, and its translation into multiple languages, including Croatian, Dutch, French, Georgian, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish. A study is currently planned to collect normative responses to the questionnaire, and to conduct cross-cultural comparisons. The Global Collaboration’s success may be seen as an encouraging step towards a truly global structure in the field of traumatic stress.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Publisher:	Co-Action Publishing
ISSN:	2000-8198
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 January 2018
Date of Acceptance:	30 November 2017
Last Modified:	06 May 2023 04:21
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/107961

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