THEMES &
PROJECTS
overview
Theme 1
Assessment of trauma and its consequences
Projects
1. GPS screener
Global Psychotrauma Screen (GPS): The development of a short screener of the wide range of potential consequences of trauma Read more.
Global Psychotrauma Screen (GPS) for children (GPS-C) and teenagers (GPS-T)
3. Translated screening instruments
Different Language Versions of PTSD Screening Questionnaires
Read more.
4. CARTS:
A novel online survey methodology: Childhood Attachment and Relational Trauma Screen (CARTS).
5. Trauma and ageing
Assessment of trauma and its consequences in old age
- ON TRACK: ON TRAumatiC stress and ageing: a global networK (ON TRACK) ().
- TRADE: Looking into Trauma and Dementia e.g. developing an instrument to assess PTSD in oder adults with dementia.
6. G-Stress: Assessment – Translation and validation of measures of trauma and traumatic distress in accordance with ICD-11 guidelines.
7. Trauma, Bereavement and Grief
8. Assessment of Trauma Symptoms in Children and Adolescents
Theme 2
Forcibly displaced persons
Projects
1. D-STRESS: Post-displacement stressors and mental health of refugees and asylum-seekers. Read more
2. FUTURE: a global network of reFUgee TraUmatic stress REsearch.
Theme 3
Global prevalence of stress and trauma related disorders
Theme 4
Socio-emotional development across cultures
Projects
1. CROSS-ER: Cross cultural Emotion Recognition in traumatized individuals across the life span. Read more
2. CM SEC: Child Maltreatment: identifying Socio-Emotional Consequences.
2.1. Impact of Child Maltreatment on Preferred Interpersonal Distance
2.2 Child Maltreatment through a Cross-Cultural Lens
Theme 5
Collaborating to make traumatic stress research data “FAIR”
Projects
Building fair data tools & infrastructure
1. Findable trauma data
2. Toolkit for FAIR traumatic stress data
3. Reusable trauma data
INTEGRATIVE DATA PROJECTS
4. Traumatic grief
5. Child trauma
6. Adult trauma treatment
7. Veterans
Theme 6 - Global crises
6.1 Global COVID-19-related traumatic stress activities
Projects
Ten projects focus on COVID-19 in different settings, details on the project pages:
6.2 Global crisis - Climate change
Projects
1. Climate change and mental health network
2. Differential impacts of and responses to climate change
3. The multifaceted mental health burden of climate change
6.3 Global crisis - Armed Conflict
Projects
1. Developing a position paper on physical and psychological survival of war stress
Theme 7
Treatments across cultures
Interventions and treatments for trauma-related disorders across cultures
Projects
1. Cultural Adaptations for Psychotherapeutic Interventions for PTSD: a narrative review
2. Global Perspectives on Culturally Sensitive Trauma Training - STUDENT PROJECT*