Combat Stress:
Understanding the Challenges, Preparing for the Return
In June, over 400 veterans, members of
the U.S. and Canadian military and civilian social workers gathered on campus to
discuss issues concerning combat stress and mental health care for soldiers and veterans.
The Combat Stress Conference brought together leading practitioners and thinkers
to explore contemporary concerns about veteran and soldier care. We wish to thank
all conference attendees and participants for making the Combat Stress Conference
such a success. Please check this site in the Fall for lecture podcasts, course handouts,
photos and other materials related to the conference.
We wish to express our thanks to Give an Hour
for their co-sponsorship and The Brown Foundation for their generous support.
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008
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KEYNOTE: The Deployment Cycle: Expectations and Implications Army Col. Carl Castro, Ph.D., Military Operation
Medicine Research Program, US Army Medical Research and Material Command, Fort Detrick (34:47) Castro PowerPoint
WORKSHOPS: Traumatic Brain Injury: Understanding the Invisible Wound Louis French, Ph.D., Neuropsychologist, Walter
Reed Army Medical Center
(Part 1: 42:17; Part 2: 24:21)
The Response of Schools of Social Work
to the Return of Uniformed Service Members and their Families Frank R. Baskind, M.S.W., Ph.D., Dean
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work
(17:07) Norma G. Jones, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., B.C.D., Commander
(USN Retired), Associate Professor, Acting Ph.D. Program Director, The Ethelyn R.
Strong School of Social Work (Norfolk, VA)(13:30) Carolyn Jacobs, M.S.W., Ph.D., Dean Smith
College School for Social Work (17:33) Peter B. Vaughan, M.S.W., Ph.D., Dean, Fordham
University School of Social Work (15:29)
FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2008
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KEYNOTE:
The Trials of Homecoming: Odysseus Returns from Iraq/Afghanistan Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D., Psychiatrist,
Department of Veteran Affairs Outpatient Clinic; 2008-2012 MacArthur Fellow
(Part 1: 29:24, Part 2: 31:38)
WORKSHOPS: Challenges of Depression, Substance Abuse and Suicide for Soldiers, Veterans
and their Families Alan Bernhardt, Ph.D., Director of the
Substance Abuse Program, Northampton VA Medical Center (26:59)
Sebrina Posey, LCSW, Suicide Prevention
Coordinator, Manchester VA Medical Center (Part 1: 17:04, Part 2: 11:53)
Beyond Combat: Complexity of Mental Health
Responses Barbara Leiner, L.C.S.W.-C., Clinical
Social Worker, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Medical Center (21:44)
Living with Post Combat Stress: The
Voices of Veterans from OIF and Viet Nam
Moderator - LTC Claudia F. Mackie, Ph.D.,
Behavioral Health Clinic, West Point (6:32)
Panelists: Reverend James G. Munroe, U.S. Marine Corps,
Viet Nam veteran (Part 1: 10:40)
Lidon A. Chevannes, U.S. Army, Viet Nam
veteran (9:08)
Major Jaime A. Perez-Montalvo, M.S.W.,
L.I.S.W.; U.S. Army Reserves, Iraq veteran (8:13) Capt. Maria Kimble, L.C.S.W.: Brigade Behavioral Health Officer, 82nd Airborne, Fort Bragg (9:14) (Munroe Part 2: 10:12)
SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2008
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KEYNOTE: Secondary Trauma and Caregivers Charles R. Figley, Ph.D., Director, Florida
State University Traumatology Institute and Psychosocial Stress Research and Development
Program;
(Figley Part 1: 12:00) Brian E. Bride, Ph.D., University of Georgia
School of Social Work
(Bride Part 1: 20:08)
(Figley Part 2: 7:20)
(Bride Part 2: 2:34)
(Figley Part 3: 8:40)
Carolyn Jacobs, Ph.D., Dean and Committee Chair; Kathryn
Basham, Ph.D.; Charles Figley, Ph.D., Irene Rodriguez Martin,
A.B.D.; Major General Marianne Mathewson-Chapman, Ph.D., ARNP (Ret.); Barbara
Romberg, Ph.D.; Jonathan Shay, Ph.D.;
Castro PowerPoint