Violence/Trauma News

SAN FRANCISCO — Among men and nonbinary people, nonconsensual sexual experiences were associated with greater depressive symptoms, according to a poster presented at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

SAN FRANCISCO — Many human trafficking victims have contact with health care providers while they are being exploited, making it critical that providers know how to identify and care for them, speakers say in this Healio video.

SAN FRANCISCO — Behavioral threat assessment and management provides a multidisciplinary approach to preventing people who are at risk for violence from carrying it out, according to Jack S. Rozel, MD, MSL.

SAN FRANCISCO — Youths who died by firearm suicide were often introduced to the weapons through family culture, according to data presented at the American Psychiatric Association.

SAN FRANCISCO — The FBI’s San Francisco field office is working with schools and local communities to create multidisciplinary cross-functional teams to prevent violence, FBI special agent Greg A. Concepcion says in this Healio video.

WASHINGTON — Deficits in response inhibition did not predict the perpetration of intimate partner violence, according to a poster presented at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America Conference.

WASHINGTON — Adults with childhood trauma had greater bodily stress dysregulation, which made them more susceptible to psychopathological and somatic disorders, according to a poster presented here.

Adults who experienced trauma in childhood were more likely to have anger issues, with more severe trauma increasing the likelihood of anger problems, findings presented at the European Congress of Psychiatry showed.

From 2003 to 2020, one of every five suicides were associated with problems with an intimate partner, according to findings published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

A PTSD program initially developed for veterans is now serving and providing benefits to civilians, with treatment typically lasting 1 week to 3 months.