Screening for consequences of trauma - an update on the global collaboration on traumatic stress

Miranda Olff; Anne Bakker; Paul Frewen; Helene Aakvaag; Dean Ajdukovic; Douglas Brewer; Diane L Elmore Borbon; Marylène Cloitre; Philip Hyland; Nancy Kassam-Adams; Matthias Knefel; Juliana A Lanza; Brigitte Lueger-Schuster; Angela Nickerson; Misari Oe; Monique C Pfaltz; Carolina Salgado; Soraya Seedat; Anne Wagner; Ulrich Schnyder; Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress (GC-TS)

doi:10.1080/20008198.2020.1752504

Screening for consequences of trauma - an update on the global collaboration on traumatic stress

Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2020 Apr 27;11(1):1752504. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2020.1752504. eCollection 2020.

Authors

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Collaborators

Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress (GC-TS):
Jonathan I Bisson, Grete A Dyb, Aram Hasan, A Ali Motevalli Haghi, Gladys K Mwiti, Janiana Pinto, Yahya Salimi, Ingo Schäfer, Julia Schellong, Jan Shigemura, Xenia Anastassiou-Hadjicharalambous, Indira Primasari

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience & Public Health, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre, Diemen, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Western University, London, Canada.
⁵ Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway.
⁶ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
⁷ Ramsay Health Care, The Hollywood Clinic, Perth, Australia.
⁸ Policy Program, UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, Washington, DC, USA.
⁹ National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Psychology, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
¹¹ Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
¹² Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
¹³ Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
¹⁴ University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
¹⁵ Traumatic Stress Unit, Psychiatric Emergency Hospital, Buenos City, Argentina.
¹⁶ Human Factors, Emergency Medical Care System (SAME), Buenos Aires City, Argentina.
¹⁷ Faculty of Psychology, Clinical Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
¹⁸ UNSW School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Australia.
¹⁹ Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
²⁰ Department of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
²¹ Department of Psychiatry, Medical School of Universidad Catolica Del Maule, Chile.
²² Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
²³ Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada and Remedy, Toronto, Canada.
²⁴ Department of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Abstract

This letter provides an update on the activities of "The Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress" (GC-TS) as first described by Schnyder et al. in 2017. It presents in further detail the projects of the first theme, in particular the development of and initial data on the Global Psychotrauma Screen (GPS), a brief instrument designed to screen for the wide range of potential outcomes of trauma. English language data and ongoing studies in several languages provide a first indication that the GPS is a feasible, reliable and valid tool, a tool that may be very useful in the current pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Further multi-language and cross-cultural validation is needed. Since the start of the GC-TS, new themes have been introduced to focus on in the coming years: a) Forcibly displaced persons, b) Global prevalence of stress and trauma related disorders, c) Socio-emotional development across cultures, and d) Collaborating to make traumatic stress research data "FAIR". The most recent theme added is that of Global crises, currently focusing on COVID-19-related projects.

Keywords: Psychotrauma; childhood abuse; global mental health; questionnaire; screening.

Grants and funding

Traumatic stress societies have financially contributed to the Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress.