🌍✨ The ISTSS Board convened in Tbilisi during the 18th ESTSS Biennial Conference—an inspiring gathering of global trauma experts. Grateful to ESTSS & Ilia State Univ. for their hospitality and collaboration as we advance trauma care worldwide. #ISTSS #ESTSS2025

Our @combatstress.bsky.social Center for Applied Military Health Research poster on “translating evidence into real-world impact via knowledge mobilisation and clinical capacity building”. Presented at #ESTSS2025 (Tbilisi) and #VMHC2025 (London)

We’ve got a wonderful UKPTS Bites coming, before we take a short break for the summer)

#Compassion Focused Therapy for #ComplexPTSD
Dr Deborah Lee
Fri 18 July 2025
12-12.30pm (UK)

It’s online. It’s free. Be kind to yourself and sign up: UKPTS.org/bites

#CPTSD #ESTSS2025 #trauma #psyscisky

Zhinvali Reservoir

After a wonderfully packed and stimulating #ESTSS2025, some time out of Tbilisi is a lovely change of pace

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"

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)

Our final #ESTSS2025 keynote is from the brilliant Professor Jana D Javakhishvili:
"Navigating Traumatic Stress: Seeking a Framework to Embrace Intrapsychic, Interpersonal, and Sociopolitical Dimensions"

#ESTSS2025 highlight | invited panel

The DART Center for Journalism and Trauma - moral injury, occupational health, DART in Ukraine

- Klas Backholm
- Elana Newman
- Gavin Rees

And we have our final #ESTSS2025 Invited Panel from @dartcenter.bsky.social‬ : "Journalists in Europe and Beyond in times of global uncertainty and unrest"

Next up at #ESTSS2025:
-Symposia: traumatic grief; refugees; PTSD in women; LGBTQ+ & discrimination;
-Papers: youth treatment; post-traumatic nightmare; maternal trauma; work in Kenya...Syria...Ukraine

A reminder we've got our final #ESTSS2025 keynote from Professor Jana D Javakhishvili at 1445/1045(GMT): "Navigating Traumatic Stress: Seeking a Framework to Embrace Intrapsychic, Interpersonal, and Sociopolitical Dimensions"

Whilst we're all having some refreshments, a huge thanks to our hard working #ESTSS2025 photographer darosulakauri.com. Do spend some time checking out her amazing work (and her great TEDTalk).

#ESTSS2025 highlight | Symposium

The treatment and recovery of torture survivors who have been resettled.

Check out the Intern’l Society for Health and Human Rights www.ishhr.com for more work in this area and beyond

- Valeria Markova
- Rolf Vårdal
- Huseyin Emlik

#ESTSS2025, day 3 session 1 includes:
Symposia: trauma and the perinatal period; prolonged grief; interventions for conflict displaced; torture & resettlement; scalable interventions
Papers: hyperbaric therapy; canine-assisted therapy; PTSD, autonomic symptoms and COVID
...and more...

Gefeliciteerd, PSYTREC!!!!!!! #ESTSS2025

At our #ESTSS2025 symposium in Tbilisi, we presented findings from #PSYTREC’s brief, intensive, evidence-based PTSD treatment. Notably, outcomes were similar for patients with PTSD alone and those meeting DSM criteria for dissociative identity disorder (#DID).

We presented on the results of our brief intensive evidence based treatment of severe PTSD from #PSYTREC at #ESTSS2025 in Tbilisi. We showed that despite the rotation of therapists in our treatment model the therapeutic alliance is very good and remains that way.

Very proud of our researchers who presented on our brief intensive evidence based treatment of severe PTSD from PSYTREC at #ESTSS2025 in Tbilisi. We showed that all our formats are effective: our 8-day program and our two 4-day programs (with or without a week in between).

During our symposium at #ESTSS2025 in Tiblisi on our brief intensive evidence based treatment of #personality disorders #PSYTREC we showed our results of personality disorders program and the bizarrely strong effect on the symptoms and diagnostic status one year later.

That's all from us today folks! #ESTSS2025 delegates are off to enjoy the formal Conference Dinner, but that's not for social media consumption...for now.

See you tomorrow for our final day...and it promises to be another cracker!

we also have our next #ESTSS2025 Invited Panel from @irct.bsky.social
'Empowering Survivors: Advancing the Global Fight Against Torture Through Agency and Justice'

It's today's final #ESTSS2025 session:
-Symposia: refugee and war-affected children; cognitions across the lifespan; supporting m.h. workers; life after loss
-Papers: music therapy; alcohol interventions; attachment figures

It's our penultimate session for #ESTSS2025 today, featuring:
- Symposia: culturally informed interventions; continual trauma and adolescents; complex child trauma
- Papers: intergenerational trauma; prolonged grief; perinatal health
- Masterclass : CPTSD and substance misuse
and more...

"enormous amounts of information are accessible to us today which have high possibilities for usability" but the frameworks are not quite there....yet.
- Isaac Galatzer-Levy #ESTSS2025

Today, Isaac says, we measure things (eg via smartwatches or imageing) that don't fit into our traditional measurement paradigms - these new paradigms are still needing to be defined and will change as we move forward.
#ESTSS2025