University of Louisiana at Monroe associate professor Mitchell Young will host a post-traumatic stress disorder forum 6-9 p.m. Friday in the ULM Conference Center on the seventh floor of the library. The public is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served.
The event is cosponsored by the ULM Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling and aims to educate attendees about the effects of trauma, common reactions and what treatments are available.
Combat veterans who fought in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan will share their struggle to rejoin their families and communities when they come home from the battlefields.
He has presented at national conferences on PTSD and conducted training sessions to Veterans Affairs and readjustment counselors in several states. Young has published articles on the subject in research journals and helped hundreds of combat veterans, victims of Hurricane Katrina and criminal violence and other individuals diagnosed with PTSD.
For more information, contact Young at (318) 342-1255.
