Publications by authors named "S M Southwick"
Professional guidelines generally caution against carrier testing in minors, though prior research indicates parents request and providers sometimes facilitate testing for unaffected siblings of a child affected by a genetic disorder. We investigated the perspectives of genetic counselors in North America regarding carrier testing prior to adolescence. Practicing genetic counselors (n = 177) responded to an electronic survey assessing their willingness to facilitate testing in four hypothetical scenarios and their evaluation of parental motivations.
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- The article discusses the creation and validation of a new self-report resilience scale called the Mount Sinai Resilience Scale (MSRS), which focuses on thoughts and behaviors that enhance resilience rather than just personality traits.
- An online study involving 1,864 U.S. adults was conducted to develop and confirm the scale's effectiveness, revealing a seven-factor structure through exploratory and confirmatory analyses.
- The revised 24-item scale showed strong correlations with other recognized measures of resilience, supporting its validity and suggesting it could be a useful tool in the mental health field.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with changes in fear learning and decision-making, suggesting involvement of the brain's valuation system. Here we investigate the neural mechanisms of subjective valuation of rewards and punishments in combat veterans. In a functional MRI study, male combat veterans with a wide range of posttrauma symptoms (N = 48, Clinician Administered PTSD Scale, CAPS-IV) made a series of choices between sure and uncertain monetary gains and losses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To determine to what extent did health care workers experience the pandemic as a severe stress event.
Methods: This cross-sectional evaluation of 8299 health care workers, representing a 22% response rate, utilized machine learning to predict high levels of escalating stress based on demographics and known predictors for adverse psychological outcomes after trauma.
Results: A third of health care workers experienced the pandemic as a potentially traumatic stress event; a greater proportion of health care workers experienced high levels of escalating stress.