Trauma Gateway: For the Media

ASTSS recognises and supports the vital role of the media in responsibly reporting traumatic and highly stressful events. Journalists who report on highly stressful events can influence the way a community or an individual understands, manages or grieves after a trauma. To assist with this challenging role ASTSS offers the following resources.

Media Contacts

ASTSS can assist journalists and people in the media with locating relevant, knowledgable contacts in Psychological Trauma related fields for assistance in ensuring accuracy and backgrounding of their articles.

The areas we can help provide contacts in include:

• Sexual Assault
• Military Conflict & Veterans
• Disasters
• Road Trauma
• Childhood Developmental Trauma, also Adolecents & Family
• Neglect & Abuse
• Domestic Violence & Violent Crime
• Refugees, Assylum Seekers & Children in Detention
• Rehabilitation from trauma
• Pharmacology & Neurology of Trauma
• Anxiety & Fear Reactions in Trauma
• PTSD

To be put in contact with these people please contact the Development Officer on 0417 324 335 or via email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ASTSS can also provide relevant academic resources for journalists including:

• abstracts of research papers relevant to specific issues such as:
  
  • Autism and trauma
  • Developmental Trauma
  • Interpersonal, Intimate Violence
  • Mental Health
  • Military Trauma
  • Neurophysiology and Trauma
  • Personality Disorders and Trauma
  • Psychometrics and Trauma
  • Sexual Abuse, Assault and Trauma
• journals and podcasts covering issues in Traumatic Stress

Useful Information at the DART Center for Journalism & Trauma

• Guidelines on reporting on Trauma @ DART

Media Awards

ASTSS invites all journalists, photographers and broadcasters to nominate themselves or their peers who show responsible and credible coverage of crime, family violence, natural disasters, accidents, war, genocide and other traumatic events.

• More about the Media Awards

ASTSS Media Releases

• View ASTSS Media Releases