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Prof to Shed Light on Combat Trauma
As the nation mourns those
killed during the recent shooting spree at Fort Hood, Smith
College School for Social Work Professor Kathryn Basham prepares
to speak at two conferences examining mental health treatment
for troops.
 Next week, Basham, an authority
on combat trauma, will address mental health Clinicians—both civilian and military—about ways to work with post-deployment
families of veterans of the warzones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Maj. Nidal Malik
Hasan, the 39-year-old man accused of the Nov. 5 mass shooting
at the Ford Hood military base, counseled returning soldiers
with post-traumatic stress disorder, and was himself facing
deployment.
Basham will first
offer research about interventions and approaches at the
Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S. (AMSUS) conference
in St. Louis. On Friday, she will present at the International
Conference of Studies on Trauma and Dissociation in Washington
D.C.
about
the types of psychological problems most common among members
of the military and how those problems compare with previous
wars, in a for the Gate. |
