Blog posts with the tag "Staff Perspective"

Staff Perspective: Review of the Future of Children’s Fall 2013 issue

Since President Obama declared November 2013 to be Military Families Month, it seemed appropriate to write about military families.  My professional interest in military families began when I married my active duty Navy husband in 2005.  When I did my first literature review on military families, I was quite surprised by the size of the body of literature, much of which was quite outdated.  While the research literature on military families and children is still limited, it has grown significantly since then.

Staff Perspective: The History of the New Military Culture Course

In October 2009, the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) conducted a joint Mental Health Summit that brought together behavioral health experts and leaders from both departments with the goal of developing a strategy that would facilitate coordination for the delivery of mental health services.

Staff Perspective: An Interview with Dr. Alan Peterson

I recently sat down with Dr. Alan Peterson, Consortium Director of STRONG STAR (South Texas Research Organizational Network Guiding Studies on Trauma and Resilience), a multi-disciplinary, multi-site research consortium funded by the DoD and VA, to learn a little bit more about their current research projects. Dr. Peterson is a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, a board-certified clinical health psychologist, and proposed STRONG STAR over five years ago to address the dearth of military-specific trauma research.

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