Today, I address three articles that speak to negative emotion, emotion suppression, hope and gratitude. First, Pugach, Starr, Silvia & Wisco (2023) published “Negative Emotion Differentiation in Trauma-Exposed Community Members: Associations with posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in daily life” in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement:

Here, I present two studies related to diagnosing and treating PTSD. First, Rubin et al. (2023) published, “Low Reliability When Determining Criterion A for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder from Self-report Descriptions of Traumatic Events: The need for transparent methods” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement:

Today, we’re looking at two studies of emotion processing in PTSD. First, Zhan, Zhang, Gong & Geng (2023) published “Clinical Correlates of Irritability, Anger, Hostility, and Aggression in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. The edited abstract and impact statement are as follows:

I had never heard the expression “diagnostic overshadowing,” but I now think it’s very important as a reminder to clinicians to be conscientious about primary diagnoses. Wislocki & Zalta (2023) published “Assessing the Existence of Trauma-related Diagnostic Overshadowing in Adult Populations” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement with key information in bold:

Dworkin, Schallert, Lee & Kaysen (2023) published “Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial of an App-Based Early Intervention to Reduce PTSD and Alcohol Use Following Sexual Assault” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Here’s an edited version of the abstract with some information in bold:

Here, I address two recent studies dealing with gender diverse populations. First, Valentine, Smith, Miller, Hadden & Shipherd (2023) published “Considerations and Complexities of Accurate PTSD Assessment Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adults” in Psychological Assessment. Here’s their abstract:

In January 2023, APA’s Six Things Psychologists Are Talking About addressed research on brain changes related to media use. Here’s part of the summary:

Luciano et al. (2022) published “Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Drinking to Cope, and Harmful Alcohol Use: A multivariate meta-analysis of the self-medication hypothesis” in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.