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

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

doi:10.1080/20008198.2019.1672948

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

Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2019 Nov 20;10(1):1672948. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2019.1672948. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Miranda Olff^{1

2}, Ananda Amstadter³, Cherie Armour⁴, Marianne S Birkeland⁵, Eric Bui⁶, Marylene Cloitre^{7

8}, Anke Ehlers⁹, Julian D Ford¹⁰, Talya Greene¹¹, Maj Hansen¹², Ruth Lanius¹³, Neil Roberts^{14

15}, Rita Rosner¹⁶, Siri Thoresen¹⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Centers (location AMC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre, Diemen, The Netherlands.
³ Departemnts of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA.
⁴ School of Psychology, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
⁵ Section for implementation and treatment research, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo Norway.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
⁹ Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁰ Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA.
¹¹ Department of Community Mental Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
¹² Department of Psychology, Odense, Denmark.
¹³ Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Research Unit, Western University of Canada, London, ON, Canada.
¹⁴ Psychology and Psychological Therapies Directorate, Cardiff & Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, UK.
¹⁵ Division of Psychological Medicine & Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
¹⁶ Department of Clinical and Biological Psychology, KU Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Eichstaett, Germany.
¹⁷ Section for trauma, catastrophes and forced migration - children and youth, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway.

Abstract
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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 technology-assisted 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.

El 6 de diciembre de 2019 comenzamos el décimo año de la European Journal of Psychotraumatogy (EJPT), una revista de acceso abierto completa sobre psicotrauma. Esta editorial es parte de un número especial que celebra el décimo aniversario de la revista y reconoce algunos de nuestros artículos más impactantes de la última década. En esta editorial, los editores presentan una revisión decenal del campo que aborda una gama de temas que son fundamentales tanto para la revista como para la psicotraumatología como disciplina. Estos incluyen desarrollos neurobiológicos (genómica, neuroimagen e investigación neuroendocrina), formas de exposición a traumas e impacto a lo largo de la vida, traumas masivos e intervenciones tempranas, traumas relacionados con el trabajo, traumas en poblaciones de refugiados y las posibles consecuencias de traumas como el trastorno de estrés postraumático (TEPT) o TEPT complejo, pero también resiliencia. Abordamos las innovaciones en tratamientos psicológicos, medicamentos (mejorados) y asistidos por tecnología, mediadores y moderadores como el apoyo social y, finalmente, cómo los nuevos métodos de investigación nos ayudan a obtener información sobre las estructuras de los síntomas o predecir mejor el desarrollo de los síntomas o el éxito del tratamiento. Nuestro objetivo fue responder tres preguntas 1. ¿Dónde nos encontrábamos en 2010? 2. ¿Qué aprendimos en los últimos 10 años? y 3. ¿Cuáles son nuestras brechas de conocimiento? Concluimos con una serie de recomendaciones sobre las principales prioridades para la dirección futura del campo de la psicotraumatología y, en consecuencia, la revista.

在2019年12月6日，我们开始了《欧洲精神创伤杂志》（EJPT）的第十个年头，这是一份有关精神创伤的完整开放获取期刊。为了庆祝创刊十周年并致谢在过去十年中最有影响的文章，我们组织了一期特刊。这篇社论是其中的一部分。在这篇社论中，编辑们对该领域进行了十周年回顾，涉及期刊和创伤心理学这一学科的核心主题。其中包括神经生物学的发展（基因组学，神经影像学和神经内分泌研究）；在整个生命周期暴露创伤的形式和影响；大规模创伤和早期干预；与工作有关的创伤；难民人口中的创伤以及创伤的潜在后果，如创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）或复杂型PTSD，当然还有韧性。我们致力于促进心理、药物（增强）和技术辅助治疗方面的创新，探讨诸如社会支持之类的调节和中介因素，以及新的研究方法可以如何帮助我们了解症状结构或更好地预测症状发展或治疗成效。我们旨在回答三个问题：1.我们在2010年的情况如何？ 2.在过去的十年中，我们学到了什么？ 3.我们的知识空白是什么？最后，我们总结性地提出了许多建议，涉及创伤心理学领域以及本刊相应的未来发展方向要务。.

Keywords: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); Trauma; complex PTSD; exposure; genomics; lifespan; mass trauma; medication; neurobiology; prevention; refugees; research methods; technology; treatment; work-related; • Celebrating 10 years of the European Journal of Psychotraumatology the editors present a decennial review of core topics in the field and conclude with recommendations concerning top priorities for future research..

Grants and funding

200796/Z/16/Z/WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom

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