A decennial review of psychotraumatology : what did we learn and where are we going?

On 6 December 2019 we start the 10th year of the European Journal of Psychotraumatogy (EJPT), a full Open Access journal on psychotrauma. This editorial is part of a special issue/ collection celebrating the 10 years anniversary of the journal where we will acknowledge some of our most impactful articles of the past decade (also discussed below and marked with * in the reference list). In this editorial the editors present a decennial review of the field addressing a range of topics that are core to both the journal and to psychotraumatology as a discipline. 

These include neurobiological developments (genomics, neuroimaging and neuroendocrine research), forms of trauma exposure and impact across the lifespan, mass trauma and early interventions, work-related trauma, trauma in refugee populations, and the potential consequences of trauma such as PTSD or Complex PTSD, but also resilience. We address innovations in psychological, medication (enhanced) and technologyassisted treatments, mediators and moderators like social support and finally how new research methods help us to gain insights in symptom structures or to better predict symptom development or treatment success. 

We aimed to answer three questions 

1. Where did we stand in 2010? 

2. What did we learn in the past 10 years? 

3. What are our knowledge gaps? We conclude with a number of recommendations concerning top priorities for the future direction of the field of psychotraumatology and correspondingly the journal.



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Reference: 
Miranda Olff, Ananda Amstadter, Cherie Armour, Marianne S. Birkeland, Eric Bui, Marylene Cloitre, Anke Ehlers, Julian D. Ford, Talya Greene, Maj Hansen, Ruth Lanius, Neil Roberts, Rita Rosner & Siri Thoresen | 2019
In: European Journal of Psychotraumatology, ISSN 2000-8066 | 10 | 1 | 1672948
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20008198.2019.1672948
Keywords: 
Asylum Seekers, Complex PTSD, Diagnosis, EMDR, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Exposure, Females, Genetics, Males, Mass trauma, Mental health, Military Personnel, Neurobiology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Prevention, Psychosocial support, Psychotrauma, PTSD (DSM-5), PTSD (en), Refugees, Research, Traumatic events, Treatment
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