SECOND ANNUAL NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM:

Combat Stress Injuries:

Addressing the Challenges, Explaining the Solutions,

and Managing the Injuries

Presented by

Florida State University Traumatology Institute[1]

Tallahassee, Florida

February 16, 2007 ~ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Center for Professional Development

Tallahassee, Florida

Program Co-chairs: Charles R. Figley, Ph.D. [2] and William P. Nash, M.D. [3]

Co-Sponsors: Collegiate Veterans Association--Alpha Chapter (FSU), the National Veterans Foundation, North Florida Vietnam Veterans Association

Purpose: To encourage collaboration among universities, military, and veteran studies institutions and colleagues that lead to significant breakthroughs in understanding and helping warfighters and their families recover from and thrive after war-related experiences in keeping withe Abraham Lincoln's reminder to finish the work [4].

Objectives: Those who attend this Symposium are more able to

1. Identify at least five major challenges facing returning war fighters and their families.
2. List at least one solution for each of the five challenges noted above.
3. Explain the third byproduct of combat stress injuries in addition to trauma and fatigue.
4. Note at least three examples of programs inside our outside the military designed to prevent or treat combat stress injuries.

Presentations by:

William P. Nash, M.D., MC, USN (United States Marine Corps),

Charles R. Figley, Ph.D. (Florida State University) and Dr. Nash,

Zahava Solomon, PhD, MSW (Tel-Aviv University),

Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Ph.D. (University of Southern California), and Ken Graap (Virtually Better of Decatur, Georgia).

Panelists: Martell Teasley , Ph.D. (Florida State University); Warren R. "Rocky" McPherson (Former Executive Director of the Florida Department of  Veterans' Affairs); Shad Meshad, LCSW (National Veterans Foundation); Nancy Clayton, M.D. (former Navy psychiatrist treating combat Marines); Raymond Scurfield, DSW (University of Southern Mississippi); CAPT Bob Koffman, MC, USN (Navy Bureau of Medicine); Tom Gaskin, Ph.D., (US Marine Corps).

Photographs: Symposium Speakers Reception, Symposium Sessions, Post-Symposium Party
Press:

American Chronical: NATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION TO SPONSOR NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMBAT STRESS INJURY. Posted February 2, 2007

Combat Trauma: The effects of war linger long after the battle is over by Avi Hein. Published 10June2007.

Attendees complete the Symposium Evaluation questionnaire

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Notes:

[1] See http://mailer.fsu.edu/~cfigley/TraumatologyInstitute.html for a description of the Program of  Research

[2] Professor, College of Social Work and Director of the Florida State University Traumatology Institute, Tallahassee , FL 32301-2570 . Email: Cfigley@FSU.Edu .

[3] CAPT, MC, USN, Combat and Operational Stress Control Coordinator, Headquarters, Marine Corps [Manpower & Reserve Affairs (MR)], 3280 Russell Road, Quantico, VA 22134-5103. Email: william.nash@usmc.mil and wpnash@cox.net.
[4] `` let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the Nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ,'' Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address.

Click this link to the Program of the Second National Symposium on

Combat Stress Injuries:

Addressing the Challenges, Explaining the Solutions,

and Managing the Injuries

Presented by

Florida State University Traumatology Institute

Tallahassee, Florida

February 16, 2007 ~ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Center for Professional Development

Tallahassee, Florida

Organized by the

Florida State University Traumatology Institute

Co-sponsored by the

Organized by the

Florida State University Traumatology Institute

Co-sponsored by the

Collegiate Veterans Association--Alpha Chapter (FSU),

The Green Cross, the National Veterans Foundation,