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:

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: