Nina Silander

North Florida and South Georgia Veterans Health System

Psychologists address social-justice problems in their research and applied work, and their scholarly efforts have been influenced by assumptions, constructs, and hypotheses from the political left. Recently, some psychologists have called for increased intellectual and political diversity in psychology, particularly as such diversity may lead to i...

Psychologists are politically homogenous to a substantially higher degree than the general population. Moreover, professional psychological organizations, namely, the American Psychological Association (APA), also promote and adopt distinctly partisan research, policy positions, and activist efforts. In this chapter, an analysis of the APA’s press...

Although nightmares are known to predict the clinical course of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), research on the relationship between specific nightmare characteristics and PTSD severity is sparse. This study conducted a secondary analysis to explore how five nightmare characteristics are cross-sectionally related to PTSD severity in 76 comba...

Ideological bias is a worsening but often neglected concern for social and psychological sciences, affecting a range of professional activities and relationships, from self‐reported willingness to discriminate to the promotion of ideologically saturated and scientifically questionable research constructs. Though clinical psychologists co‐produce an...

The primary medical goals of acute care are restoration of physical health and return to physical function. However, in response to traumatic events and injuries, psychological factors are critical to one’s overall recovery. Both pre-morbid psychiatric comorbidities and post-injury psychological compromise affect physical and psychological recovery...

Trauma amputation triggers intense psychological reactions and causes monumental life changes. Roughly half of amputations are the result of medical complications and half are from traumatic events such as industry and automobile accidents. Shock, dismay, and anger are typical initial emotional reactions. Pain, depression, and adaptation of life ch...