Special section: Innovations in trauma research methods

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey Sonis; Elisa Triffleman; Daniel W. King; Lynda A. King

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 72 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.20111

✦ Synopsis

This issue of the Journal of Traumatic Stress contains a special section devoted to papers derived from the first annual Conference on Innovations in Trauma Research Methods (CITRM), held in New Orleans in November 2004. CITRM (www.citrm.org) was developed as an outgrowth of the Research Methodology Special Interest Group of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies and focuses on research methods, not content, in the area of psychological trauma.

The need for a conference devoted exclusively to research methods in psychological trauma was based on realizations that (1) trauma research has distinctive characteristics that affect design, sampling, measurement, and ethics; (2) there are relatively few programs that offer specific training in trauma research and few funded training opportunities; (3) most of the research presentations at existing conferences on trauma have focused on content rather than methods; (4) trauma research is a relatively new field of study and is frequently multidisciplinary.