This weekend, the Soldiers Project holds its "Hidden Wounds of War" conference in LA. See link for more details. The theme of the conference is "hidden wounds of war: pathways to healing," and conference speakers will focus on everything from the impact of war on the servicemember and his or her family, to the challenges facing therapists who counsel them. The speakers will include:
- Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D., longtime veterans advocate and VA psychiatrist;
- Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA), chairman of the house Veterans Affairs comittee;
- Harriet Katz Zeiner, PhD - Lead Neuropsychologist, Polytrauma Rehabilitation Unit, VA Palo Alto;
- Jimmy Castellanos - OIF Veteran, student at Claremont McKenna College;
- Paula Domenici, PhD - Deployment Behavioral Psychologist, Center for Deployment Psychology, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda. Co-Author - Courage After Fire: Coping Strategies for Troops Returnng from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Families;
- Helena Young, PhD - Clinical PTSD Program Manager, VA Palo Alto; and
- William Saltzman, PhD - Professor, Educational Psychology, Administration & Counseling, California State University Long Beach; Assistant Director, Project Focus Program, UCLA
Editor's note: For a link to the Soldier's Project, click here.
