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The first #ESTSS Future Leaders Talks on #Psychotrauma Podcast episode is live! 🎙️
Prof Dominic Murphy, Dr Maria Bragesjö & Dr Joanne Mouthaan
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Have you heard us yet? Perfect for your weekend listening!
🎙️ We're live! 📻
ESTSS Future Leaders Talks on #Psychotrauma #podcast launch episode:
"Why psychotrauma matters—and where you can make your mark in the ESTSS community"
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Only one day to go until #ESTSS Future Leaders Talks on #Psychotrauma #Podcast episode 1 drops!
We'll be across Spotify, Youtube and Async..........
#TraumaExperts #MentalHealthResearch #Psychotraumatology
#TraumaResearch #TraumaTreatment #TraumaStudies #PTSD
🎙️New #ESTSS Future Leaders Talks on Psychotrauma #Podcast dropping this week!🎙️
Stéfanie Fréel sits down with Prof Dominic Murphy, Dr Maria Bragesjö & Dr Joanne Mouthaan to unpack how YOU can actively shape the ESTSS #psychotrauma community
⏳Full conversation coming on 16 April
📢 ESTSS Conference 2029 – Call for Bids
Interested in hosting the ESTSS Conference in 2029?
We invite bids from ESTSS members and affiliated societies.
🗓 Deadline: 1 July 2026
🔗 estss.org/invitation-c...
#ESTSS #Psychotrauma #Conference #CallForBids
📣New ESTSS Future Leaders "Talks on Psychotrauma" Podcast coming soon!
Prof. Dominic Murphy, Dr Maria Bragesjö and Dr Joanne Mouthaan on why psychotrauma matters - and why you should join the ESTSS community.
Get inspired. Get connected. Stay tuned. 🎙️
#psychotrauma #ESTSS #podcast #ptsd #trauma
We've got a brilliant and fascinating UKPTS Bites this week. FREE and ONLINE.
"Stalking: a psychological approach to a complex issue"
Dr Kirsty Butcher
Weds 12 November 2025
1200-1230pm
ukpts.org/events/bites...
UKPTS 2026: "The Burden of Care: Trauma and Moral Injury in the UK Public Sector"
Only one week left to:
- submit your abstracts for consideration
- grab your early bird tickets
head to ukpts.org/conference2026 for all the details
Roll up, roll up! Hear from one of the architects of the ICD-11 Complex PTSD diagnosis - Prof Marylene Cloitre - online and for free!
'Complex PTSD: What's Next?'
Friday 17 October, 4-4.30pm
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... for sign up and more
#ComplexPTSD #PTSD #Trauma #psychscisky #psychology
We're delighted to be co-hosting another fabulous session next week with @ukpts.bsky.social
We're already getting excited for #UKPTS2026
🚨Get involved and submit your abstracts now!🚨
"The Burden of Care: #Trauma & #Moral Injury in the UK Public Sector"
26.01.2026
ukpts.org/conference2026
#conference #bluelight #healthcare #psyscisky #psychology #ethics
All that's left is to thank the Georgian Society for Psychotrauma, Abbey Events, the Biltmore, #ESTSS2025 volunteers, supporters, speakers and delegates, those who followed along, and of course the wonderful people of Tbilisi and Georgia
გმადლობთ, see you in Portugal in 2027!
The 19th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies will be
"Talking about Trauma: Threats, Procedures and Challenges"
Hosted by Observatório do Trauma & @ucoimbra.bsky.social
3-6 June 2027
Coimbra, Portugal
www.estss2027.com
#ESTSS2025 #ESTSS2027
"One of my hopes with #ESTSS2025 is that we would leave as ambassadors for Georgia, and we've come together a family." Dominic offers thanks to all present "for making #ESTSS2025 come alive".
He pays special tribute to co-chairs Jana D Javakhishvili and Lela Tsiskarishvili
ESTSS President Dominic Murphy reflects on the #ESTSS2025 keynotes: the power of implementation; dealing in truth; and the importance of the past.
The winner of the #ESTSS2025 Academic Poster competition is:
-Jeanet Karchoud (Amsterdam UMC).
Commended:
-Cornelia Mǎirean & Alexandra Cobzeanu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University).
-Lisa Steenkamp (Sinai Centrum).
Congratulations to all authors and co-authors.
She shares three truths observed over #ESTSS2025:
- both trauma *and* resilience have so many faces
- silence protects nobody
- we have a shared responsibility to treat, witness and integrate
" please take these with you; we should be hopeful...unified...and good luck"
he thanks all delegates, organisers, speakers, volunteers, and sponsors for their presence. She pays tribute to the plurality of voices heard over the past 3 days especially "those who need our help and with whom we stand and share".
#ESTSS2025 welcomes to the stage Professor Nino Makhashvili (Georgian Society of Psychotrauma).
Don't go anywhere, as we are straight into the Closing Ceremony of #ESTSS2025. Stay tuned to find out who has won the Academic Paper prizes and (very importantly) where we will all be meeting up in 2027*....
(*and if your correspondent will need to invest in yet another plug adaptor)
Further information on Prof Jana D Javakhishvili's profile and research can be found at:
faculty.iliauni.edu.ge/arts/darejan...
www.researchgate.net/profile/Dare...
orcid.org/0000-0003-01...
"We cannot ignore what is happening, we need to put our heads together... to work out how to study societal trauma. We need to do more!" she says. And perhaps our role extends beyond treatment, into witnessing, innovating and importantly globally collaborating.
She concedes that she does have more questions than answers:
is this limited to m.h. problems only?
should we be reactive or proactive?
can we contribute to prevention of unhealthy developments at the societal level?
"The measurement of outcomes shows this works," she says. Noting the lasting positive impact via standardised measures, "it's promising".
"It is possible to help those trapped in a conflict zone"
in brief, the platform provides a consistent chain of secure digital mental health interventions, including: self-screening, psychoeducation and self-help, transdiagnostic psychological counselling modular interventions, and advanced trauma-focused interventions
For more information on the work:
Javakhishvili, J., et al. (2023). Providing immediate digital mental health interventions and psychotrauma support during political crises. The Lancet Psychiatry, 10(9), 727–732. doi.org/10.1016/S221...
So how can care be provided during ongoing threat - intervening during war and prolonged conflicts?, she asks. She cites ongoing international collaborative work in Belarus: samopomo.ch samopomi.ch
Societal trauma operates not only at a higher level, but at the personal - with implications for individual health, functioning and also may includes questions and considerations around radicalisation and violence.
To do so requires acknowledgement, science, art and cultural rituals, justice, compensation, services, rehabilitation and recovery at a personal, state, governmental and societal level.
